Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

10 October 2023
We compare the iPhone 15 Pro Max to the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

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Anonymous, 11 Oct 2023I can keep going, because the difference is massive. If you... moreI completely disagree. Both things that you are pointing out are so massively overprocessed on the Samsung that I wonder if you did not mistake photos of both phones... Look at the leaves, grass, literally anything there. On Samsung, it just looks like 6 Mpix picture upscaled and then sharpened to the maximum, exported, and sharpened again. Artifacts from overprocessing are almost hurting my eyes...

    Nameless, 11 Oct 2023Something is utterly off with this Ultra. Samples look horr... moreMine takes exactly the same type of pictures. Trash out of the box. So as mentioned few times here, I use GCAM.

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      • Anonymous
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      • 11 Oct 2023

      TheLastOracle, 10 Oct 2023I wonder if the iPhoen still overheats after the firmware u... moreno overheating

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        • Anonymous
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        Nameless, 11 Oct 2023Something is utterly off with this Ultra. Samples look horr... moreI use GCam on mine. Much better than the stock app

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          • Nameless
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          • 11 Oct 2023

          Something is utterly off with this Ultra. Samples look horrible. Mine does much better pictures.

            Gsmarena what about iphone 15 pro max vs 14 pro max

              Anonymous, 11 Oct 2023I won't buy both. 15 pro + fold Z5 is a better combina... moreDamn

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                • Anonymous
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                • 11 Oct 2023

                Nick Tegrataker, 11 Oct 2023Here are the crops from the 1x shot from both phones to mak... moreSo, your "defence" is to transcode images and compare them? What? Really?
                Look at the originals instead. Look at the bits I told you to look at. It isn't a discussion there.

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                  • Anonymous
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                  Hanif Fikri, 11 Oct 2023Neither iphone or xiaomi are oversaturated, if you compare ... moreWalk back much on dumb arguments?

                  If you want the best looking display you buy a Samsung. You definitely NEVER, EVER, EVER buy a Xiaomi. Not in any weird fantasy land. Ever!

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                    • 11 Oct 2023

                    Pl make a report on Iqoo 11 pro and Real me Gt 5 240 watt.

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                      • Anonymous
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                      • 11 Oct 2023

                      I phone 14 pro max

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                        • 11 Oct 2023

                        is this s23ultra up-to-date? because it received a camera upgrade 2 months ago adding lossless 2x zoom which works great. that should be on par with iphone's

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 11 Oct 2023

                          I won't buy both. 15 pro + fold Z5 is a better combination for me.

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                            • 11 Oct 2023

                            Please fix the S23U test picture. The daylight 1x picture. It looks very wrong (completely different than any of your other, similar test-pictures).

                              Each has their own strengths, don't just support one blindly.

                                Anonymous, 11 Oct 2023If you want oversaturated colours on a Samsung you enable o... moreNeither iphone or xiaomi are oversaturated, if you compare side by side take any brand ips lcd monitor(except samsung) compared it to your samsung + iphone or xiaomi phones you will see iphone and xiaomi produced similar saturation side by side against the ips lcd monitor compared to undersaturated samsung. Only minorities noticed how bad samsung callibrate their display color and complained it on samsung official sites, tech sites, reddit..

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                                  • 11 Oct 2023

                                  In my country s23 ultra 45k, 15 pro max 75k. I choose 30k in my pocket :)

                                    Well both have pros n cons in everything n if u dig deep down u'll see this one have advantages over the other n vice versa n this goes on.. but still both r very well rounded phones in every aspect n it goes to ur preferences of using ios or one ui, as for me I use android so I'll pick samsung over the iphone but I don't mind of using iPhone either if get it for a good price

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                                      Anonymous, 11 Oct 2023Samsung is absolute dog-crap in low light, photo and video,... moreBro. The S23 Ultra is better in low light, you literally have the proof in this article. Photos are oversharpened but that's easy to fix, videos are totally fine.

                                        Nick Tegrataker, 11 Oct 2023Here are the crops from the 1x shot from both phones to mak... moreI completely agree. Provided by you side by side are excellent examples, of why processing in Samsung is terrible. It looks just like comparing a premium phone with some mid-range or even budget one, that tries to rescue bad hardware with overprocessing. While I have S23U (because I just don't like iOS and none of the Chinese top smartphones are an option in my country) I use it only with GCAM. It is the only way to make photos from that smartphone look good.

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