Typo, sorry. Meant S8+. Not that the S9 is going to be much different anyway. I'll fix... (And thanks for reading that bit - if you read the rest you'll see it doesn't all go Apple's way!)
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iPhone X Beats Samsung Galaxy S9 in Benchmarking Tests
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I did read your whole switch story and I agree with the battery being more predictable in the iPhone. From my own experience.
Nothing ever goes all for one team but there are things that are holy with any side. The back and forth in these articles are kind of sad/funny with both sides trying to prove theirs is obviously the correct choice.
I've been an iPhone X owner now for four (count them) whole days. I switched from a Galaxy S8 plus. Things I've noticed:
Anyway, if you read all of that, thanks! Have an ice-cream or something.
- Call quality is far better on the iPhone than on the Samsung. I thought my house was on the edge of coverage because I could only get decent reception in the kitchen and even then it would break up. Now I get crystal clear reception everywhere in my house. It's like they built a new cell tower on my street.
- The app I use most is Audible. On my Samsung it would appear to time out after about four hours, such that when I got in my car after a day at work it would not automatically start playing. I would have to get my phone out, unlock it, open the app, press play. Although the Samsung has more memory it appears that iOS handles audio threads much better.
- Audible on iOS has an 8 minute sleep timer (perfect!) whereas on Android the shortest is 15 minutes which is too long. Why the difference? Obviously this is neither Samsung nor Apple's problem but it affects my experience and that's what matters to me.
- I miss the headphone jack! Why did they remove it? Aaarrgghh!
- The S8 charged a lot faster than the iPhone. I've not had the iPhone long enough yet to determine whether the battery lasts as long under normal usage but I need to change my behaviour around charging. The charging speed was a big plus for the S8+.
- Unlocking is *much* faster on the iPhone. FaceID is much faster than Face Unlock (and more secure).
- Pausing/playing Audible is a lot easier. On the Samsung I had to double-tap the screen which sometimes woke the device but oftentimes didn't. Then I had to swipe the clock out of the way to get to the audio controls (not easy when you're in the shower). Then click play/pause. On the iPhone I do a light tap which always wakes it, and the audio controls are right there front and centre.
- The "soft" home button on the Samsung was temperamental - sometimes it worked, sometimes it just triggered whatever GUI content was under my finger. So to play safe I ended up having to swipe up from the bottom to get the controls, then press the home button. Now I just swipe up from the bottom.
- Sound quality through the onboard speakers is much better than the Samsung.
- There are apps I can finally use that I use day-to-day on my other devices (like Things 3 - I *love* having that on my phone now.)
- It still works with my Samsung Gear S3 watch! For the most part.
I never used my watch to reply to emails and so on so I've not lost any functionality I actually used. I think the Apple Watch is hideous and I'd rather strap a dog turd to my wrist. No offence, Apple.
- I love the better integration of voicemail on the iPhone.
- Animojis are tons of fun! But I've never sent one to anybody and probably won't. Maybe I should have got an iPhone 8.
- Android was a better at handling global settings like font sizes. My eyesight is pretty crap these days so I have to crank the font size up. In most cases on the iPhone this is fine but things like the book list in Audible (tiny!), BBC news app etc. simply ignore the setting and go their own (too small to see) way. The Android ecosystem is more consistent across apps.
- iTunes still sucks. Hard.
TLDR; I'm glad I switched. For the most part the iPhone X experience is vastly superior to the Galaxy S8+ experience. There are a few annoying niggles.
/edit - no chance anyone reads this!
/edit2 - fixed a typo at the end where I said S9 instead of S8+ by mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
A bit far fetched what you said.
But for me the Secure Folder in S8+ offers a far superior experience than anything Iphone can offer.
Add true multi-tasking / multi-window plus customization in S8+ makes X looks like an overly expensive toy.
Slip up makes the story questionable. The fact that you own the S8+ should make you instinctively mention the S8+ when thinking about the S9 and not vice versa. It's as bad as someone getting their wife's name wrong. Also, the radio performance claims is contrary to real world usage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7xqtdg/iphone_slow_to_pick_up_service_on_the_nyc_subway/
And, Face ID is insecure if not worse than face unlock.
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Really? A typo in a long, detailed post makes it questionable? The op surely spent a bit of time on that post, just to prevaricate, as you are alleging. Where’s the motive?
Phones need to justify the high prices by integrating more functionality for a universal all-in-one device. So, besides PC level productivity and development also things like retro gaming console emulation for down time.
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Not much of a difference between the s8 and the s9.
Before you say camera, s9 can’t record in 4K 60fps for more than 5 Minutes anyway.
Also, as a photographer, I carry a Fujifilm X100F with me at all times so don't use the camera on my phone. I'm not knocking phone cameras - they've come on immensely over the years - but they can't break the laws of physics.
Not sure if you actually read my post or simply don't understand what far fetched means. Anyone who's used both phones can verify.
I never used Secure Folder - I guess I'm too trusting. Multiple apps running on-screen at once is nice but it's a feature I never used so I won't miss it. As for "true multi-tasking", as I said in my first post, Android let itself down in that regard by swapping my Audible app out after a few hours necessitating me having to re-launch it again before it would connect to my car. Not a big deal, but the iPhone connects and plays automatically every time (so far!)
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Clutching at straws trying to discredit the op.
Anyway....apparently s9 preorders aren’t off to a good start....
“And today comes a note from Jeff Johnston of the boutique firm Arthur Wood Research, who declares that he’s hearing from “the channel” that Galaxy S9 orders “are down ~50% over GS8,”....These pre-orders are “significantly underperforming pre-launch expectations of 10% to 15% growth,” he writes.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/sa...ud-says-arthur-wood-look-out-below-1520360479
Sorry, but the iPhone X/8/8plus record 4K at 60fps and they are not breaking the laws of physics.
I'm a photographer, not a videographer, so video isn't why I carry a dedicated camera. Both the iPhone and Galaxy S8+ are better at video that the X100F as far as I know.
But, cameras in phones can never be as good as a "real" camera simply because of issues like sensor size. This is where physics comes in.
Latest data shows iOS slowly bleeding market share to Android in a lop sided duopoly race though. Consumers don't benefit from a monopoly so they need to fire Tim Cook and hire someone like Elon Musk to bring back innovation and quality.
I hear that BMW has a smaller market share than Toyota. BMW must be dying off.
Unless you run out of space while recording
Not really an option when the s9 is capped at 5 min
I'm a photographer, not a videographer, so video isn't why I carry a dedicated camera. Both the iPhone and Galaxy S8+ are better at video that the X100F as far as I know.
But, cameras in phones can never be as good as a "real" camera simply because of issues like sensor size. This is where physics comes in.
Guess physics doesn’t apply to Soderbergh.
Guess you know better.
Steven Soderbergh Wants to Only Shoot Movies on iPhone Now: ‘This Is the Future’
https://www.thewrap.com/iphone-steven-soderbergh-exclusively/
And
Steven Soderbergh Says He’s Done Directing Studio Movies and Wants to Only Shoot on iPhones — Sundance 2018
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/steven-soderbergh-interview-sundance-iphone-unsane-1201921769/
Well, didnt you add your Audible app in "Unmonitored App" so it wont be swapped out? Also Audible app is poorly designed. It should have added an persistant notification icon so it doesnt get swapped out.
Positives for S8+ seems like nothing to you. For you wasting time waiting for an app to sync/download data is a vastly superior experience than having the app doing it in the background while you do other things.
Or the superior experience you get lugging around an Apple TV box to mirror to a TV compared to S8+ which can mirror to any TV without the need for add-on.
Or the superior experience you get by NOT having any interconnectivity with non-Apple hardware (incl. BT/wifi/USB/SD functionalities, hands-off continuity capability, sharing capabilities)
Or the superior experience you get looking at boredom-inducing 10-year grid of icons which cover your wallpaper
Or the superior experience you get when apps like Apple Map/Itunes/Mail/Etc are forced down your throat stimulating your pleasure point
Or the superior experience you get by constantly needing to press the power button to check your time or missed events compared to AOD/LED on S8+.
Or the superior experience you get with Iphone by constantly needing to remember to flip the silent switch on/off compared to S8+ where you can let intelligent software switching does it for you automatically
Or the superior experience you get with Iphone bigger-is-better central Settings where you need to spend many tens of seconds to hunt for the one you want compared to a tap in S8+
Or the superior experience with iphonr recording video with great sound in full MONO
There are many more...so it is not funny anymore to continue.
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Yes most people won't be using 4K recording let alone 4k 60FPS, it's still a crazy limitation though.
I regularly record 4K @ 60fps over 5 min.
And I know plenty of people that do.
Guess some people don’t have anything worth capturing.
It’s kind of lame for Samsung to claim they were focusing on the camera because the s9 looks exactly like an s8 but capped it at 5 min.
At the very least those with an iPhone X/8/8plus have the option, especially for the flagship phone price.
Dude a 64gb iphone x with no added apps installed can barely record 12 min of 4k60 before storage is whipped out.
It takes 1 second to stop recording and start recording again to have a new file.no one wants to format there sd card to ntfs yo store a file over 4.7gb.
It's an sd card limitation. Try move a 10gb file on an sd card and see what happens.