iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. S24 Ultra - Which Should You Buy?

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Which is better? The iPhone 15 Pro Max or the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra? We’ll put these phones head to head, comparing their hardware, software, photo and video quality, and much more! Sponsored by Pocket Casts. Make Pocket Casts your default podcast player today and download it for free: pocketcasts.com/6-months-later

We’ll specifically walk you through standout features like their displays, Galaxy AI, the S Pen, being able to sideload apps, how well each phone integrations with other Samsung, Microsoft and Apple products, how their camera systems compare, the weight and size of each phone, Apple’s Ecosystem vs. Samsung’s, the iPhone’s new Action Button, iOS vs. One UI and then we’ll take you through which phone we think is overall better.


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🕰️Timestamps:
0:00 - Displays
0:56 - Galaxy AI
1:58 - S Pen
2:19 - One UI
3:30 - Sideloading Apps
3:44 - Samsung and Microsoft integrations
4:23 - Photo and video comparison
5:33 - Switch to Pocket Casts as your Podcast player!
7:25 - Weight and Size
7:54 - Apple Ecosystem vs. Samsung Ecosystem
9:25 - Action Button
9:49 - iPhone video quality
10:09 - iOS
11:14 - Recommendation


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All Comments (21)
  • @gulafshan7021
    Recently bought the S24 ultra after 13 years as an iPhone user, Though initially intimidated by the change, I like it now and how this phone is more flexible than any iPhone I ever owned. Nowadays Checking out every single companion video tolearn more about android and s24 ultra and reassure my decision to change to samsung was right 😊
  • @karenmoreno6414
    Been using the iPhone since 2009. Recently purchased an S24 Ultra this year and am never looking back...
  • @RetroGamerTy
    I've had an iPhone since the 4 model and just upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S24+. I can honestly say I will never change back to iPhone. Apple makes their products work great together, but with just a few years' time, the product is already left behind and feels obsolete. Android has a lot more versatility, and I feel it was more worth my money.
  • If you consider eco systems then consider how Apple's walled garden is closed and limits you to their own gadgets only, while Samsung, Google and Microsoft create interoperable shared ecosystem that lets you use whatever windows laptop you want, any tablet you find good enough for you, any earbuds and any PC you want to build. Except for Apple devices that can work only with each other.
  • @Sithhy
    The only good thing about the iPhone 15 is the USB C port lol
  • Thanks for video. Please afvice what is the best camera smartphone? I presently use S23+, but camera is not so good how I expect. I looking for good cameraphone with simpke interface to use.
  • @WhatSRV
    I wouldn't say the action button is an advantage. You can set the power button to double tap to do something or tap the back of the phone using the good lock app. I use the double tap on the power button to bring up a few selections using routines. I can choose couple different apps, camera, shortcuts of an app (like when you hold a app icon it shows several other options from it), or many other options.So in that regard, s24 ultra wins.
  • @Abdulla77
    Could we just correct the “ecosystem” argument here and clarify that Samsung does have an ecosystem. It has the phone, watch, headphones, tablet, and laptop. Not only that, it has its own “find my” network to find your devices. If you wanted to move your music listening from one device to another, you can. If you wanted to pick up that call on your laptop, you can. If you wanted to read your messages on your tablet or laptop, you can. The ONE thing Samsung does not have is something equivalent to AppleTV+. That’s it. So, if I wanted to go “all-in” the ecosystem for Samsung, I could.
  • @m.b.557
    I have both, prefer the s24 ultra. I could less about imessage, the ecosystem, or any other lock in features Apple tries to deploy. Way too many features on the S24 Ultra that I use daily that are lacking on the iPhone for me to use as a longterm daily. I do prefer the Macbook over Windows laptops though. It doesn't have to be either or, I use products from both sides on the daily.
  • 1:44 Apple has an advantage over Qualcomm in terms of CPU since as the main investor, Apple has a lisence to create their own cores based on ARM ISA, unlike Qualcomm who could not do so until they bought a server CPU maker start up that had needed lisence and they prepare their own CPU cores for Snapdragon 8 gen 4. But Qualcomm has advantage in GPU and NPU since Qualcomm bought VLIW mobile graphics of ATI and developed it for a decade now and such graphics is good for neural networks, so they made their NPU based on their GPU.
  • Honestly why the features are nice I just need a phone to be a phone… I’ve been an iPhone user since the 3G currently have a 12 pro max, but upgrading to a 15 pro max purely because I want the blue titanium. My 12 is pacific blue and didn’t upgrade because I love the colour of it.
  • @user-qx1ul7cr4x
    you should compare how apps work, I feel apps are much better on iphone (Banking apps, Adobe and edit apps)
  • @jonegroove
    It's almost like these types of hardware comparison videos are now irrelevant, you can't go wrong with either one. Now it should be about the ecosystem and what Os you're most comfortable and familiar with.
  • @hollis1223
    Whenever I recommend a phone to someone, largely I'll lean towards android, unless they already have multiple other apple products, the seemless integration is a very nice touch. As for me, I bounce back and forth, LG to iphone to pixil to currently iphone
  • I’ve been an iPhone user for over 10+ years but had an S10+ and a Note 10. I don’t think I’d switch to a galaxy anytime soon anytime soon, but I’m extremely shocked how better the camera has bad with galaxy’s from the photo and video test I was blown away since I can finally say galaxies cameras are on par with Apple speaking of the s24 ultra very surprise. It’ll give video man keep up with the work. 🤘🏽
  • @ghettomt
    Which phone will still run smoothly in 5 years?
  • I dont really get the qualm with smooth video zoom in and out, I mean,its the quality of the zoom more important than the transitions itself?, its not a major feature. Just because the zoom is not as smooth on the S24 Ultra doesnt mean its laggy, because the damn phone could damn well do more than an iPhone could, lets say the Samsung Dex really. Can your iPhone do that ?. Can your iphone really do multitasking like an android does?. Probably not. Also, its a given that the integration between apple product would be most optimal because they control everything as it is both their hardware and software. Samsung does not with this third party providers like Microsoft, Google and PC makers. But if you would like to compare, it would probably be great to compare it againts samsungs own equivalent products, integration may still be less optimal but apples, but its not as if integrating this things are hard anyway, just set them up once, and its done. The most advantageous feature of android really is customizability, and the fact that it would work not only with samsungs own products but across a range of other products like Windows PCs of different manufacturers is actually great. It means you're not stuck in any brand and could choose freely prolly to sacrifice a little of less optimal integration that is a one time task anyway. Thirdly, you focused on the dynamic island and didn't even dig in depth on samsungs own unique features. Maybe lets address the elephant in the room, the ugly huge notch on the iphone is one. What else, customizability and features, ever heard of good lock apps?. You mention you can see the weather on the phone screen, but samsung does this too. All in all, this doesn't even seem like an objective analysis. You must mention the equivalent features of the things you say are good on the other and are found (or closely equivalent to it)or not found on the other. I can see some other influencers do this on tiktok and youtube.
  • @Ri-yang
    The only best thing about Apple is 100% made by own company But Samsung galaxy has a partnership which gives software problem later after a years of regular usage
  • Apple can probably add AI with an update. Worst thing about Samsung phones is the awful rollout date updates. Unlike Apple where you get updates to ALL devices 7 years back, Samsung send updates by Mobile Carrier then by model number, horrible. Plus Apple lets consumers into their Beta programs, Samsung does not. Apple's handoff from phones to MAC including sound (MAC speakers or AirPods) is a great feature. The Ecosystem is king on Apple due to them making their own computers.