Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max VS Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4: Features, Differences and Price

There are already several brands that offer foldable “smart” cell phones in their catalogs. One of the most popular is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, which is one of the industry benchmarks. It’s unclear whether Apple plans to release an iPhone whose screen can be unfolded or unrolled, so let’s compare it with its crown jewel, the iPhone 14 Pro Max, to find out its features, differences and prices.

Features Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4

• screens: The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 is a foldable mobile, and as usual in this type of device there are two screens. The exterior is 6.2 inches and quite long (23.1:9 aspect ratio). This is the one the user will probably use most often. The folding screen measures 7.6 inches when extended and looks like a small tablet. Both have adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz. The iPhone 14 Pro Max features a 6.7-inch 120Hz LTPO Super Retina XDR OLED panel with a peak brightness of 2000 nits.
• Processor: Apple’s phone incorporates the company’s most powerful chip, the A16 bionic. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, at the time of its market launch, features the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which is the king of the latest generation of Qualcomm chips.
• Storage: The Japanese company offers 256 and 512 GB options, as well as 1 TB. The iPhone 14 Pro Max starts from 128 GB, going through 256 and 512 GB, arriving up to 1TB on the most expensive model.
• cameras: Although the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 is Samsung’s most ambitious smartphone, it’s not the best when it comes to photography. It has a triple rear camera with 50 MP main sensor and video recording up to 8K at 24 fps, and has two frontals; one of 4 MP when the phone is unfolded and another of 10 MP when the screen is folded. Apple has also committed to a triple rear camera, with a 48MP main sensor and 4K video recording at 60fps. The front is higher quality than the Samsung, with TrueDepth being 12 MP.
• connectivity: at this point they are quite equal, since they have WiFi 6 (6th in the case of Samsung), Bluetooth (5.3 on the iPhone and 5.2 on the Samsung), 5G, NFC, GPS and a physical Lightning connector on the Apple device and USB-C 3.2 OTG in South Korean for much faster transfer speeds.
• Security: Apple, since the iPhone X, uses in almost all its mobile phones the Face ID, which is your secure facial recognition system. Samsung bets on the fingerprint reader on one side.
• Operating system: The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 was launched with Android 12, but it can be updated to Android 13 and will receive several other mobile operating system updates from Google. It is customized with the One UI layer, which gives a different look to Android stock and endows it with certain features and functions that are not available in other terminals. The iPhone has iOS 16, only available on Apple products.
• Battery: the battery size of the two terminals is similar, but the autonomy is not, and this is because Apple optimizes the operating system very well, which translates into better energy efficiency. Apple promises up to 29 hours of continuous video playback per charge, and with normal use it can reach almost two days (or two days with light use). This is generally a negative point for Android devices, but this point has also been improved with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
• Price: iPhone 14 Pro Max starts at 1,469 dollars in the official Apple Store and authorized suppliers, and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 can be purchased from 1,799 dollars.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 VS iPhone 14 Pro Max, which “smart” phone to buy?

Both phones are each company’s most ambitious propositions, but the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, despite being sometimes compared to Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro Max, belongs to a different range, which is that of foldable smartphones. These devices are usually more expensive than “normal”, and there is proof of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 from 1,799 dollars.

Is it justified? The answer, as almost always, is that it depends. The Z Fold4 could be considered a 2 in 1 device, because when folded it is a phone and when unfolded it fulfills the function of a tablet. A similar setup in Apple’s case would be the iPhone 14 Pro Max alongside an iPad mini, for example.

And the S23 Ultra comes with the stylus S-stylus, with the same functions as the Apple Pencil (and others) that make the hybrid a very interesting productivity tool. By characteristics, the Samsung device offers more possibilities, but other factors must also be taken into account: operating system, autonomy, price, etc. And if you prefer the ecosystem of Apple and iOS, difficult to choose another.

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