So, why have glass if it looks like cheap plastic? Makes no sense to have the expense.
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Hands-On Video Compares Unreleased Samsung Galaxy S21+ With iPhone 12 Pro
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I think you are just used to over saturated photos on the Samsung that are not useful to anyone else and videos that get over compressed using oog format that us over 20 years old and used on my first smartphone the Treo. Horrible experience when sending video. There is a reason iPhones have been used by high end professional photographers, and to shoot feature films when it is important to capture accurate details. Samsung doesn't get that at all.
Notch? No idea what you are talking about. I do like my iPhone’s tabs. I think it’s great that new iPhones give us a little more space so the time and indicators are not wasting the main part of the display.
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I’ve moved from an iPhone 6 to a 12 mini, and I’m pleasantly surprised how little I notice the notch. The main time it’s noticeable is when zooming in on a webpage/photo, especially in landscape orientation, but the eyes are usually concentrated on the centre of the screen in these moments anyway.
Outside of the current pandemic situation — which will not last forever — Face ID provides a far more seamless user experience than Touch ID. Once Apple and other manufacturers work out how to truly hide the lenses and sensors underneath the screen, we’ll all have identical looking black slabs from the front ... Great⁉️
They're on 21 now?? Gone are the days of the Samsung S6 being their equivalent of the iPhone 6S.
It looks weird, but then more space on screen to read stuff whilst still being able to type one handed
I like how it melts into the phone’s body.
I am also one who’s getting “tired” of the ever increasing camera bumps.
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I’m curious. Have you actually held an iPhone 12 and experienced it irl? In my opinion, the quality and aesthetics of my iPhone 12 Pro (dimensions/proportions, buttons, notch, bezels, heft, materials, textures, etc.) are nothing short of a work of art.
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Ill be another to say I personally like the notch/dont mind the notch.
With OLED screen it is very impressive how the a dark black background blends in a physical dark black notch. It is a good look & I bet it what Apple as going for. IDK how it looks with LED screens, but with OLED it totally blends in.
Also waaaaayy rather have a complex Face ID system, then a stupid lame hole-punch in the screen for what a single crrrap camera? Is this really the "best" alternative? Sad.
With OLED screen it is very impressive how the a dark black background blends in a physical dark black notch. It is a good look & I bet it what Apple as going for. IDK how it looks with LED screens, but with OLED it totally blends in.
Also waaaaayy rather have a complex Face ID system, then a stupid lame hole-punch in the screen for what a single crrrap camera? Is this really the "best" alternative? Sad.
I don't think I've ever read Androids use of Java (now kotlin) to be in itself an insult before. If there's anything that puts me off Samsung it's their own skin they place on top of it.
Both are (will be) great phones.
Meanwhile users like myself that only use a passcode suffer and get nothing positive in return.
DITCH THE NOTCH!
Samsung was copying parts of Apple's SoC designs until Apple took their business elsewhere.
I'd rather have a plastic back phone. its a better material for the purpose, more durable.. How many glass phone cases are there?
Curious as to why the 200 degree fisheye camera was needed to film this.
Also I couldn’t help but laugh at how hard it was to wake the screen and unlock the S21. Two taps, glitchy when the screen came on. Tried to swipe up to unlock it, nothing. Tried again, tried a THIRD TIME, it finally unlocked but it lagged out like crazy and things took literal seconds to load and show up on the screen. Then the iPhone... he flipped it over, tapped it once: instantly on and ready to go.
That just goes to show how refined and buttery smooth everything about iOS is. I’ll take that and security over a samesung running Android any day.
Also I couldn’t help but laugh at how hard it was to wake the screen and unlock the S21. Two taps, glitchy when the screen came on. Tried to swipe up to unlock it, nothing. Tried again, tried a THIRD TIME, it finally unlocked but it lagged out like crazy and things took literal seconds to load and show up on the screen. Then the iPhone... he flipped it over, tapped it once: instantly on and ready to go.
That just goes to show how refined and buttery smooth everything about iOS is. I’ll take that and security over a samesung running Android any day.
You can see that some scratches are already on that Samsung phone too 😂 either that or gunk from from his hands when eating his lunch from earlier
