Apple iPhone 16 vs. Samsung Galaxy S24

Compact smartphones are scarce as of late, and should you slender your search solely to the premium phase, the selection turns into much more restricted. Nonetheless, Apple and Samsung have the Apple iPhone 16 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 that match the factors. One might argue that these telephones do not examine all of the packing containers of a flagship gadget, however they’re shut sufficient.

The 2 contenders are additionally comparatively cheaper than their extra premium siblings, hitting the candy spot for some potential consumers. And in spite of everything, the Samsung vs. Apple dilemma continues to be a factor in some markets, regardless that the vanilla iPhone 16 is not off to an incredible begin because it asks about €250 greater than its direct rival in Europe and the hole will get even wider within the US.

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For starters, you may examine the entire specs sheets or immediately proceed with our editor’s evaluation within the following textual content.

Dimension comparability

Though the iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S24 are constructed by two very totally different corporations, you would be shocked by what number of similarities you could find.

The 2 handsets are very related size-wise, with the Galaxy S24 having a slight edge over the iPhone 16 as a result of it is a tad narrower, shorter and thinner, whereas providing an even bigger show with bigger display screen actual property. In brief, you’re getting extra show in the identical footprint.

The vanilla iPhone 16 and Galaxy S24 additionally share related design language. The aspect frames and back and front panels are flat with the digital camera lenses protruding. Construct high quality is, for all intents and functions, comparable. Each gadgets use Corning-made glass panels for the back and front, joined by an aluminum aspect body. The 2 our bodies are IP68-rated too, although Apple guarantees a resistance as much as greater depth (1m vs. 6m).

Show comparability

The iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S24 make no compromise in terms of show high quality. Each panels assist the identical HDR requirements and each can get fairly vibrant. In keeping with our checks, the iPhone has a slight edge with 300 nits extra.

Nevertheless, the S24 wins this spherical by having a 120Hz LTPO OLED. The iPhone 16’s show settles for a less-than-ideal 60Hz refresh price in 2024.

Battery life

In terms of battery life, the iPhone 16 is the clear winner right here. It dominates the Galaxy S24 on each entrance, but it surely’s significantly spectacular within the internet shopping state of affairs, the place it beats the S24 with virtually double the runtime. The iPhone 16 additionally posts considerably higher video playback and name scores.

It is fairly evident that should you worth battery life probably the most, the iPhone 16 is the best alternative right here.

Charging velocity

The iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S24 supply equally quick charging options, for probably the most half. Or ought to we are saying they’re equally gradual?

In any case, should you look strictly on the whole time required to cost the gadget, the S24 beats the iPhone 16 by virtually 20 minutes. We would say that is sensibly quicker.

Nevertheless, the charging curve within the first 15 to half-hour is sort of equivalent as the 2 gadgets will provide you with virtually 60% of the cost again in half-hour.

Speaker take a look at

The iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S24 supply equally loud stereo audio system, however the former has the higher hand concerning high quality. It is fairly apparent that Apple’s cellphone has a hotter and deeper sound because of the well-pronounced bass. The vocals aren’t muffled both.

Then again, the Galaxy’s audio system are missing within the lows and sound downright flat.

Efficiency

The iPhone 16 runs on Apple’s A18 chip, whereas the Galaxy S24 will get the Exynos 2400. Apple’s new chip makes its strategy to the non-Professional variations this 12 months and guarantees a considerable improve in efficiency, effectivity and AI capabilities. Traditionally, Apple’s silicon provides higher efficiency than its Android counterparts, however the 10-core Exynos 2400 packs a punch too. It additionally makes use of a GPU co-developed with AMD.

Each handsets disappoint in terms of base storage. The S24 and the iPhone 16 begin from 8GB/128GB and attain as much as 8GB/512GB.

One small element to bear in mind – the iPhone 16 has NVMe storage, whereas the S24 settles for UFS 3.1 for its base 128GB variant and UFS 4.0 for all others. In each instances, the S24 is slower than the iPhone 16. Not that storage velocity is of nice significance anyway.

Benchmark efficiency

One would anticipate the iPhone 16 to be objectively the extra highly effective gadget. And that is true for probably the most half. It beats the Galaxy S24 in Geekbench 6’s multi-core state of affairs by 17%, which is a pure CPU-bound benchmark take a look at, whereas in GPU-heavy workloads like 3DMark Wild Life Excessive, it drags behind the S24 by 5%. Not a giant distinction, however a notable one.

Digital camera comparability

Each the iPhone 16 and Samsung Galaxy S24 function equally succesful most important cameras, every using 48MP sensors. The place they differ extra is of their telephoto and ultrawide setups. The Galaxy S24 comes geared up with a 3x telephoto digital camera, giving it a slight edge in optical zoom vary over the iPhone 16, which lacks a devoted telephoto lens.

On the ultrawide entrance, each gadgets supply high-resolution efficiency, however the iPhone’s ultrawide has the added benefit of autofocus, a function the Galaxy S24’s lacks, permitting the iPhone to deal with close-up pictures extra adeptly.

Selfie digital camera capabilities are additionally well-matched, with each telephones sporting 12MP sensors and related focal lengths, making them aggressive for front-facing images and video calls.

Picture high quality

There’s not a lot competitors right here, to be utterly sincere. The iPhone 16 produces better-looking stills day and evening with its most important and ultrawide cameras. The stills simply look cleaner, extra detailed, sharper and with much less noise, if any, at evening.

iPhone 16: 0.6x • 1x • 2x

Galaxy S24: 0.6x • 1x • 2x • 3x

The 2x crop zoom images on the iPhone are so significantly better that it isn’t unreasonable to suppose that the 3x crops from the iPhone will look higher than the 3x telephoto stills from the S24.

iPhone 16: 0.6x • 1x • 2x

Galaxy S24: 0.6x • 1x • 3x

Maybe the one benefit that the Galaxy S24 has is the processing. Samsung’s cellphone produces typically extra likable colours, even with the brand new, extra pure processing on the S24 sequence. The iPhone images are flatter.

Video high quality

The identical goes for the movies. The iPhone 16’s clips are noticeably higher. They’re sharper, cleaner and resolve extra element.

Under we now have a number of framegrabs from the movies taken by the 2 telephones at every focal size so they’re simpler to check to 1 one other.

iPhone 16 video screengrabs: 0.6x • 1x • 2x • 1x

Galaxy S24 video screengrabs: 0.6x • 1x • 3x • 1x

Verdict

For probably the most half, the iPhone 16 is the higher gadget. It lasts longer away from the charger; its show is brighter (albeit lacking high-refresh-rate assist); it has better-sounding audio system; it has typically extra highly effective SoC, and it offers a greater digital camera expertise total.

The Galaxy S24’s smoother show, barely quicker charging, 3x optical zoom cam and cheaper price tag are the one benefits. Your potential choice for Android might assist tip the scales too, however if you’re a kind of uncommon customers not married to both ecosystem and have the expendable price range, the iPhone 16 is the clear alternative for you.