Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs. Apple iPhone X: Big-Ticket Phones Do Battle

Samsung just revealed its newest phablet, the Galaxy Note 9. This actress-beefy phone looks like a beast, with a big battery, large screen, and big specs. It stands up against the iPhone X, Apple's current smartphone behemoth. Let's see how they compare.

Name	Samsung Galaxy Note ix	Apple iPhone Ten

Lowest Price	$999.99 MSRP	$999.00 MSRP
Editors' Rating
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 845	Apple A11
Dimensions	6.38 by 3.01 by 0.35 inches	five.65 by 2.79 past 0.3 inches
Weight	7.09 oz	half-dozen.14 oz
Screen Size	6.iv inches	5.8 inches
Screen Blazon	Super AMOLED	Super Retina HD
Screen Resolution	ii,960 by 1,440 pixels	2,436 by one,125 pixels
Screen Pixels Per Inch	516 ppi	458 ppi
Photographic camera Resolution	Dual 12MP rear/8MP forepart-facing	Dual 12MP Rear/7MP front-facing
Video Camera Resolution	4K	4K, 1080p
Total Integrated Storage	128 GB	64 GB
microSD Slot	Yeah	No
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Price

This is the easiest necktie. It'southward also the hardest sell. At $1,000 each, the Milky way Notation 9 and the iPhone X are the nearly expensive smartphones y'all can buy (that aren't obscure, limited-edition models or purpose-specific military or scientific equipment). A few years agone, flagship phones hovered around $600 to $700, but Apple and Samsung blew the roof off of that soft cap with bigger price tags for their marquee phones.

Size

These are both pretty large phones, just the iPhone 10 is downright svelte compared with the Galaxy Note 9 (which needs a bit of extra room to hold the included S Pen stylus). The iPhone X measures five.65 by 2.79 by 0.three inches (HWD) and weighs 6.xiv ounces, while the Milky way Note ix is much longer and a flake wider (6.38 by three.01 by 0.35 inches) and heavier past about a full ounce (vii.09 ounces).

Brandish

Notch-haters rejoice, the Note nine doesn't have 1 (though the iPhone X does, of grade). The Notation 9's screen is too significantly bigger than the iPhone X's (half-dozen.iv to 5.viii inches), with a higher resolution (2,960 by one,440 vs. 2,436 by i,125). As mentioned before, the Notation 9 includes the S Pen stylus, and then yous can write and draw more than precisely on the bigger screen compared with using your finger on the iPhone X.

Ability

The iPhone X has Apple's virtually powerful smartphone processor, the A11 flake. Rather than using a Samsung CPU, the Milky way Annotation 9 is packed with Qualcomm'southward current flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 845. We oasis't given the Note 9 its full bombardment of benchmarks nevertheless, but we have tested the Galaxy S9+, which has the same general hardware specs as the Notation 9. In our tests, the Galaxy S9+ runs cervix-and-cervix with the iPhone 10 in Antutu, while Geekbench performance numbers put the A11 ahead.

Photographic camera

Apple and Samsung's flagship smartphones have consistently featured some of the all-time cameras we've seen. Both the iPhone Ten and the Galaxy Note 9 boast dual-lens cameras, combining broad-bending and zoom lenses to accept well-baked shots at different distances. The two cameras also characteristic dual aperture modes, with the wide-bending lens able to open upwards to capture more light in dark settings. Both phones' cameras are 12MP for each lens, and generally appear very similar with a modest advantage for the Note 9: Its broad-angle lens tin open upwardly to f/one.5, brighter than the iPhone 10's f/ane.8 broad-angle lens.

Battery

The iPhone X disappointed us with its 2,716mAh battery, which lasted just shorter than v hours in our testing. The Milky way Note 9 has a much bigger 4,000mAh battery, which will hopefully hateful it tin can terminal longer even with the larger, college-resolution screen. Of course, nosotros won't know until we test information technology in the lab. The Milky way S9+ has a smaller iii,500mAh bombardment, merely it lasted longer than ten hours in our tests.

Storage

No contest hither. The Galaxy Notation ix doesn't just take a microSD card slot so you can easily expand storage on the fly, information technology too boasts double the internal storage of the iPhone Ten. The two tiers of Notation 9 offering 128GB and 512GB, while the iPhone X is only offered in 64GB and 256GB versions.

The Verdict

The Samsung Galaxy Note nine is certainly bigger than the iPhone X, and on paper information technology boasts a improve screen and higher-capacity battery. These are just based on technical specs, even so; we won't be able to fully judge the Annotation 9 until we're washed putting it through its paces in the lab. Go on an eye on PCMag.com for our full review.