The Biggest Disappointment About My Flagship Smartphone Battle
Last week, I took the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra to London for a full-on camera test. This is, after all, the flagship smartphone battle most people care about. Certainly, whenever a new iPhone is launched, my audience wants to know how it compares against Samsung’s best offering. The differences between these two devices continue to reduce in an era where we really have reached peak smartphone innovation. But there are differences, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max and S23 Ultra have very defined audiences.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max display is superb. It’s bright, sharp, colourful, and super fast thanks to that 120Hz ProMotion tech. But it isn’t the S23 Ultra’s display which still takes the crown.
Like it or lump it, Samsung still opts for vibrancy and saturation over anything else when it comes to the display on its flagship devices. It’s not for everyone, but I absolutely love it. The S23 Ultra’s display also feels far more expansive thanks to the lack of anything remotely resembling the Dynamic Island. The OS is a personal preference, which is why I rarely go into detail on that element during these comparisons. That said, I remain welded deeply within the Apple ecosystem thanks to my reliance on the Mac and iPad elsewhere in my business. So, for me, iOS always pips it, but that doesn’t make it better than Android, and Google’s operating system shines on the S23 Ultra.
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