96 PCWorld JULY 2020HERE’S HOW SWITCHING FROM GALAXY S20 ULTRA TO iPHONE
to learn some important things about
Android versus iOS. I knew the camera
would be way better on the Galaxy S20 Ultra
so you won’t find any shootouts here, but
such a drastic switch made the two phones’
strengths and weaknesses crystal-clear, and
in some cases painfully so.- SIZE DOESN’T
REALLY MATTER
Over the past however many years, we’ve
come to equate bigger with better when it
comes to phones, whether it’s the S20 Ultra
or the iPhone 11 Pro Max. I thought that
moving from a 6.9-inch phone to a 4.7-inch
one would be torture.
I was wrong. There were fewer tweets in
my feed and more scrolling while reading,
but it was an acceptable trade-off to enjoy
true one-handed operation. The SE has
shown me that it’s really not so bad to go
back to a sub-6-inch display, especially with
such a reasonable price tag. When I pick up
the S20 Ultra now, it feels comically large
and heavy.
I’m not going to argue that Samsung
return to the days of the Galaxy S6, but I’d
like to see the upcoming Galaxy S21
generation go a bit smaller. There are rumors
that Apple will be making a 5.4-inch iPhone
12 with an edge-to-edge design, which
might be the sweet spot for people who
want a phone they can use
with one hand without
sacrificing on the modern
design or display tech.- APPS ON
ANDROID ARE
SIMPLY INFERIOR
Size might not matter, but
speed does. As I do with
every new phone, the first
thing I did on the iPhone SE
was install a dozen or so
apps that I use on a regular
basis: Slack, Ring, Twitter,
Chrome, and a handful of
others. While they’re all
essentially the same on both
Buying a new Android that’s as small as the Galaxy S9 from 2018 is
basically impossible.