The Galaxy S22 Ultra was my primary device since its launch earlier in the year. That is until I decided to buy the iPhone 13 Pro Max in July. One of my primary concerns with the Samsung flagship was its battery life. When I was using all its features — high refresh rate, maxed-out screen resolution, and more — it simply didn’t last as long as I needed it to.
I needed a phone to last me an entire day without battery anxiety, so I went with the iPhone 13 Pro Max. While my experience has been positive overall, there are a few things I miss deeply from the
I miss the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s telephoto lens
The
- 1. 3x zoom
- 2. 10x zoom
- 3. 3x zoom
- 4. 10x zoom
While I was using the
- 1. 10x zoom
- 2. 10x zoom
- 3. 10x zoom
It’s not just about architecture photography. I went to a late-night concert at a bar. I was standing in row three or four. Still, I was able to capture the singer’s images clearly, thanks to 10x zoom. You can look at the results above. And it’s not like the concert was in broad daylight. It was in a challenging low-light environment, where the
- 1. 100x zoom
- 2. 100x zoom
Plus, how cool is it to capture moon shots via your
The iPhone 13 Pro Max’s battery life is all I’ve ever wanted
The iPhone 13 Pro Max helped kill my low-battery anxiety. The
This is the primary reason I switched to the
I have almost all my information on my
Since smartphones have become more than just communicator devices, it is essential for them to last an entire day, especially if you are hopping around the city. And the
I am a work-from-home employee, but sometimes I work out of cafes. So I need my iPhone’s hotspot for at least three hours on the trot. In this situation, almost any of the other best phones available now would dip to levels that I’d require to charge it urgently. But not the
Even after a busy day, I have about 20% battery life left on my new big iPhone. For context, my busy day starts at 8 a.m. with 100% phone battery. It starts with playing songs as I get ready. I go out commuting in the metro and killing time while listening to songs, which is followed by walking to my favorite cafe with
After turning on the hotspot and working through lunch till 4 p.m., I exit the cafe to go catch up with a friend in the other corner of the city. I have no personal transport, so metro it is. I use the iPhone again to read on Kindle or doom-scroll through social media, and it’s already 5 p.m. We meet and celebrate (my friends and I always have a reason for celebration). And now it’s 9 p.m. To get back home, I get an Uber while music and doom-scrolling are my favorite ways to pass time in the cab. I reach home by 10:30 p.m. and still have 20% battery left.
I have never managed to kill the battery in a single day on the
Surprisingly, I don’t miss the S-Pen at all
One of the parts I thought I’d miss after shifting to the
My primary use case was clicking selfies with the button on the S Pen. After my shift to the iPhone, I’ll just use a 3-second timer to get that perfect selfie without any shakes caused by reaching for the button. Maybe I’m not the target audience for the S Pen, or maybe it just really isn’t as useful. And maybe Samsung knew this, so it killed the Note lineup and integrated it with the Galaxy S lineup. I guess we’ll never know. For my personal use, at least, bidding the S Pen farewell hasn’t been an issue whatsoever.
Two great phones for different reasons
The
Overall, neither of these smartphones is better than the other. If the iPhone can last an entire day, the S22 Ultra can deliver never-before-imagined perspectives through a mobile phone camera. If the
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