Best Small Flagship? Samsung Galaxy S23 VS iPhone 14 Pro

If you want a great smartphone that isn't the size of a piece of toast, your options are limited. And really, flagships with around a 6-inch display diagonal are about as small as you're gonna get since Apple dropped its "mini" iPhone.

That leaves the #iPhone14Pro and Samsung's baseline #GalaxyS23 to fight it out in this arena. So let's take a look at which one is the best small phone in 2023!

0:00 Intro
0:43 Hardware & Performance
5:22 Software & Ecosystem
7:53 Cameras
12:52 Winner?

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[atulyaaman]

Here in India, the iPhone 14 pro is almost double the price of Galaxy S23. Lmao.

[peponderat]

It was a no brainer for me. I bought the s23 at preorder for 620 usd and this is for the 256gb version with a fast charger included and the 14 pro was double the price in my country. With this model I can honestly say that samsung has caught apple, even better at some points. Faster 4.0 ufs storage, better gpu, cpu is very close in benchmarks, in reality is the same. Camera is also almost the same. Iphone has very tiny advantage which would only be appreciated by a camera zombie.. Android eases your life a lot in the day to day tasks and with the 5 year support, great battery now, amazing display without a hideous notch.. You can easily connect to windows and the only valid argument to choose iphone is this "ecosystem", which I don't think is worth buying their overpriced tech. So there is nothing in favor for the iphone for me and when I think that its a lot more expensive, I am amazed how greedy this company has become.

[johnny]

So the iPhone 14 Pro ran the first loop of Wild Life Stress test, let out a whimper and then ramped down performance. The S23 maintained a much longer peak. Major win for the S23

[ChadH]

I've had the s23 since launch. It's been bug free, lag free, zero crashes. I think the s23 series is the best Samsung has ever made. You don't have to compromise anything except macro shots or a big screen like on the ultra.

[sealava]

" it just works " is very, very overrated if you have used the iPhone .
as an iPhone user, and many users have clearly stated that many bugs in the iPhone and updates that break things lead many users to HATE and be wary of any update that apple pushes out.

[MrAyushguptaful]

In India,
iPhone costs 1, 20, 000
And Galaxy 72, 000
Thats a huge difference in price.
Lets take 2 extra years of software support for iPhone and 10 - 15% extra resale value.
Still I will be saving 25, 000 on galaxy. Thats quite impressive and with the money left I can get airpods pro 2nd gen 😅
Good work Samsung

[ManuSaraswat]

s23 anyday, once side loading apps and true third party repair becomes available on Iphone, then we'll talk.

[mirzasakib]

In my country 14 pro costs 1280$ and s23 costs 730$ so yeah, easy win for Samsung

[andrewrailstar]

Here in Italy, the s23 is around 600-700ish (online price) while iPhone 14 pro is one k at the least.
Not comparable, it's more s23 ultra vs iPhone 14 pro.

[Thepresidentmemer]

I got tbr s23 and you dont need to click the camera button to take a selfie, just put your hand on the camerw

[robertpeschke]

a suggestion for your videos, keep iphone on the left and galaxy on the right. you switched a few times and it was hard to follow.

[yambowee-yt]

1:29 the one on the right is it the 23 or 23 fe?

[lectronic]

Iphone oversharp pictures an lack of contrast in certain situations. I think for price S23 is the winner here. I hope Pixel 8 improve temps, finger print scanner and battery life.

[jokast]

I have samsung buds, samsung tablet and wimdows pc.... so deffo better get s23?

[andym]

shouldn't you compare the ultra instead of the standard s23 ?

[radical]

S23 is great and the Iphone 14 Pro is clearly overrated.

[formulaabc]

I never buy Apple products. I have my reasons.
But if you choose an iPhone, especially the Pro, you never have to wonder if Android has a better phone. No phone is"better" than the iPhone. Maybe it has some better feature but that's it.

I do though belive that many people make a big mistake buying an iPhone. Most of them should identity how they use their phone before buying one.
For example I have an aunt that buys an new iPhone every year. She can't even change the background or the ringing sound. And most of her photos are blurry because she haven't figured out not to move her phone while she's clicking the button to take a photo.
She should have bought a cheaper Android with double the storage of her iPhone.

[arpanrana]

the comparison is between the base varient of samsung s series and base varient of iphone pro varient which already shows s23 is way more value for money and yaa no need to talk about the iphone 14 varient

[doflamingo]

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S23 is better for me

[kinderbueno]

Well the s23 is the basic line and the 14 pro is the advance line in a compact size. The s23 has similarities on camera set up and is much cheaper .. well the samnung is the winner because their basic line phones have the same with set up with iphone pro lines ..