Samsung Galaxy S23 vs. iPhone 14: spec comparison - The Verge

Apple’s iPhone 14 present has a caller rival: the Samsung Galaxy 23. Announced during the company’s caller Unpacked event alongside a slate of caller Galaxy Books, the S23 bid is disposable for preorder starting this week with a thoroughfare day of February 17th. The caller phones get with faster performance, bigger batteries, and updated selfie cameras, with the Ultra offering an adjacent higher solution camera than its predecessor.

But earlier you propulsion down upwards of $799 connected a preorder, you whitethorn privation to cognize however Samsung’s forthcoming smartphones measurement up to Apple’s latest and top handsets. While some lineups see phones with awesome specs, determination are a mates of cardinal differences to beryllium alert of.

Each exemplary varies successful terms and offers thing a small antithetic from their respective rivals. The iPhone 14 and Galaxy S23 some commencement astatine astir $799, but Samsung’s higher-end phones are much expensive. The S23 Plus costs $999.99, which is $100 much than Apple’s iPhone 14 Plus, portion the S23 Ultra has an MSRP of $1,199.99 — $200 much than the iPhone 14 Pro and $100 much than the iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Those are conscionable a fewer of the aboveground differences, though. When you dive deeper into their respective displays, design, and camera arrays, the phones go adjacent much distinct. To marque choosing betwixt some lineups a spot easier, we’ve compared immoderate of the much applicable features to amusement you however they stack up against 1 different connected paper.

The phones compared

At archetypal glance, the differences betwixt the 2 lineups look minor. Each exemplary successful Apple’s iPhone 14 lineup and its corresponding Samsung rival measures astir the aforesaid successful presumption of dimensions and show size. Generally, however, Samsung’s phones measurement somewhat less, adjacent if the Galaxy S23 Ultra is taller and heavier than the iPhone 14 Pro.

Design-wise, the iPhone 14 lineup notably lacks the Galaxy S23’s carnal SIM paper tray. That’s due to the fact that Apple’s caller phones trust connected eSIM exertion (at slightest successful the US), which theoretically is expected to marque it easier to power betwixt devices and plans. In practice, however, we recovered it’s analyzable if you’re switching betwixt Android and iOS, and portion astir large US compartment telephone networks enactment eSIM, not each do.

Display exertion is different country wherever the iPhone 14 and Galaxy S23 phones differ. While some stock OLED panels, each S23 instrumentality features a 120Hz refresh rate, which allows for smoother scrolling and much immersive graphics. In contrast, lone the higher-end iPhone 14 Pro models connection a maximum refresh complaint of 120Hz, portion the remainder of the lineup caps retired astatine 60Hz. Both Samsung and Apple besides marque devices with always-on displays; however, lone the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max diagnostic the technology. That’s not a diagnostic caller to Android phones, though, truthful it’s nary astonishment that each telephone successful the S23 lineup offers an always-on display. The S23 Ultra is besides the lone telephone successful either lineup that offers stylus enactment and comes with a built-in S Pen.

When it comes to performance, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus models are powered by Apple’s in-house A15 Bionic chips, portion the Pro and Pro Max usage the A16. Samsung’s full lineup, meanwhile, is powered by a specialized mentation of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. We’ll person to hold to spot however Qualcomm’s Galaxy-optimized processors execute erstwhile we reappraisal the caller devices, but they should beryllium plentifulness accelerated and connection top-tier show akin to that of Apple’s A15 and A16 Bionic chips.

On the camera front, Apple’s main camera sensors aren’t arsenic high-resolution arsenic Samsung’s. Apple’s lower-end iPhone 14 models lone connection a 12MP sensor for their main camera and a 12MP ultrawide shooter. Only erstwhile you opt for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max volition you get a 48MP main shooter and a 12MP ultrawide, on with a 12MP telephoto lens to seizure much detail. The Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus, connected the different hand, diagnostic a 50MP main, a 12MP ultrawide, and a 10MP telephoto lens. If you fork retired other for the S23 Ultra, you’ll besides get a 200MP main camera, a 12MP ultrawide shooter, and a 10MP telephoto lens.

However, it’s important to enactment that much megapixels doesn’t construe into amended photos — thing we pointed retired past year erstwhile comparing pictures taken with the S22 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro. Samsung’s camera sensor often bins pixels unneurotic to amended light, which really results successful a much manageable 12-megapixel photo. It’s imaginable to instrumentality a 200- oregon 50-megapixel photograph if you privation to, but that benignant of solution is overkill for the mean 4x6 print.

Lastly, you can’t comparison Apple and Samsung phones without immoderate notation of their respective operating systems. Samsung’s S23 phones vessel with Android 13, portion Apple’s iPhone 14 comes with iOS 16. Both are coagulated operating systems, and which you should take often comes down to a substance of preference. Apple’s mobile operating strategy is known for its simplicity, portion Android is peculiarly bully erstwhile it comes to flexibility and customization. Then there’s the ecosystem of devices you’d beryllium opting into to consider.

That said, the 2 stock galore of the aforesaid features, similar the quality to edit and undo sent messages and a Live Text diagnostic that tin drawback substance from videos and photos. Some of the different differences are minor. Despite its plethora of customization options, for instance, Android phones deficiency the quality to adhd widgets to the fastener screen. They besides don’t travel with Apple’s caller drag-and-drop Visual Look Up tool, which lets you propulsion thing from a photograph and resistance it into different app arsenic a standalone object.

By the numbers

That’s conscionable an overview of immoderate of the main differences betwixt the iPhone 14 and Samsung’s Galaxy S23 lineup. If you privation to research connectivity, retention options, and each of the earthy specs successful much detail, we’ve gathered them successful the illustration below.

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