Android vs iPhone: 3 issues Android does higher than the iPhone 15 Professional

The iPhone 15 technology acquired a variety of main upgrades. The Dynamic Island can now be discovered on all fashions. The digicam has been considerably improved, not solely within the iPhone 15 Professional Max, but in addition within the iPhone 15 (and 15 Plus), because of the 48-megapixel sensor and 5x optical zoom. And final however not least: we get USB-C.

Even when the final improve was not precisely voluntary, there’s an argument to be made that the distinction between this 12 months’s iPhone and its predecessor is larger than we’ve seen shortly. And but, objectively talking, Android smartphones are nonetheless higher in lots of respects. Three specific examples spring to thoughts.

Why Android’s Motion Button is best

For 16 years, the iPhone had a mute slider on the left facet of its casing. Solely Apple itself is aware of why it didn’t flip the mute change into an Motion Button a lot earlier. However one factor is definite: The brand new Motion Button within the iPhone 15 Professional is nice! You possibly can arrange many sensible features and, because of the choice of assigning shortcuts to the button, you may even begin ChatGPT in only a few steps with the motion button.

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The unhappy information is that should you don’t need to miss out on the enjoyable of the Motion Button, you’ll need to dig deep, because the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus nonetheless include the mute change. You’ll want a 15 Professional or 15 Professional Max to get in on the Motion.

But whereas the Motion Button is a superb thought in itself, Android exhibits it may be accomplished higher–for the straightforward cause that Apple’s Motion Button, as soon as it has been arrange, can carry out just one perform at a time. Whereas, on sure Android smartphones, the facility button on the facet may be reprogrammed as an “Motion Button” that may carry out varied actions, resembling activating the digicam, when pressed a number of occasions.

Think about how rather more sensible the iPhone’s Motion Button could be should you might carry out a number of features by merely urgent it a unique variety of occasions. Properly, perhaps Apple is saving just a few enhancements for future updates.

Why the show in Android smartphones is best

If we’re speaking about issues that make Android smartphones higher, then we inevitably have to speak in regards to the iPhone’s display. Not that it leaves a lot to be desired with its Tremendous Retina XDR show:

• 1,000 nits most typical brightness
• 1,600 nits peak brightness (HDR)
• 2,000 nits peak brightness (outside)

Whether or not Professional or non-Professional, the show on the present iPhones is fantastically vibrant and provides nice colour. Nevertheless, it’s actually exhausting to know why Apple restricts two options to its Professional fashions solely: always-on and a 120Hz refresh charge. It hurts each iPhone proprietor to see {that a} 120Hz always-on show is accessible on less expensive Android fashions.

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Samsung, for instance, provides the Galaxy A54–a mid-range smartphone with 5G, 50MP predominant digicam, fingerprint sensor beneath the show, 5,000 mAh battery, USB-C, and expandable reminiscence because of MicroSD–at a fraction of the worth of an iPhone 15. At all times-on and 120Hz show are after all additionally included.

USB-C: Why Android smartphones are higher

The change from Lightning to USB-C was greater than overdue. If Apple had its approach, the iPhone 15 would virtually actually have a Lightning connector, however the EU put a cease to that plan with its regulation.

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USB-C on the iPhone is beneficial, enabling you to attach varied extremely sensible equipment and eventually cost your MacBook, iPad and iPhone with one and the identical cable. However that is the place we take a look at the competitors once more and understand there’s a higher approach.

We knew earlier than the launch that Apple would deal with the USB-C connection in another way to another firms. Within the run-up to the keynote, nonetheless, hypothesis centered on knowledge switch pace. We now know that quick charging isn’t actually potential both.

So the place the iPhone 15 Professional costs 50 % of the battery inside half an hour, the Xiaomi 13T Professional manages a full cost (from 0 to one hundred pc) in the identical time. Is quick charging good for the battery’s long-term well being? Properly, that’s debatable. However no one can deny that ultra-fast charging may be extraordinarily helpful in some conditions, and this can be a third and remaining space the place Apple nonetheless seems to be lagging behind its Android rivals.

This text initially appeared on Macwelt and was translated and edited by David Value.