Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 : This is the comparison between this year’s best compact flagships S24 & iPhone 16. It’s been 8-9 months since the launch of the S24 & 3-4 months since the launch of the iPhone 16. And we’re doing this comparison after such a long time because most of the people are going to buy it in 2025. So this is going to be an interesting & detailed comparison between this phones.
HIGHLIGHTS
Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Design
Let’s talk about the design of both the phones. You can’t really make out the difference, both have great in-hand feel. The only difference is that the frame of the iPhone is matte. Samsung Galaxy S24 is also matte but it’s needs to be a little shiny for fingerprint. It has a glass & aluminium sandwich design.

You can’t really make out the in-hand feel. The only advantage is that the iPhone has a 2.0 USB port, where as the S24 has a 3.2 USB port. That’s why the data transfers in the S24 are much faster. And because it’s a flagship, so both of the phones have IP68 certification.
Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Display
The iPhone 16 has a 6.1 inch display, whereas the S24 has a 6.2 inch display. But the advantage of the iPhone 16 is, it has a 60Hz display whereas the S24 has a 120Hz display. It has a dynamic AMOLED 2X display, retina XDR OLED display. If you look at the display of both of the phones, they’re quite good.


The S24 doesn’t have a Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, whereas the iPhone 16 has a Dynamic AMOLED 2X which is functional and useful. But the S24 has a smaller punch hole display so you get more screen real estate. But in terms of display brightness, the Samsung S24 has a peak brightness of 2600 nits & the iPhone 16 has a peak brightness of 2000 nits.
Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Camera
The S24 camera gives you 3X telephoto which the iPhone 16 doesn’t give. But iPhone 16’s camera has some advantages. If I talk about specs, you get a 50MP (primary) + 12MP (ultrawide) + 10MP (telephoto) camera. Whereas in the iPhone 16, you get 48MP (primary) + 12MP (ultrawide). The iPhone doesn’t have a telephoto but you get a camera control botton in the new iPhone.


Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Performance
The iPhone 16 has A18 chipset and A18 is a more powerful chipset so it’s definitely beats the S24’s Exynos 2400 in terms of performance. You’ll see the synthetic scores like Geekbench, Geekbench AI. In all of them, we tested that the iPhone A18 chipset is better. And we also tested the 3DMark Extreme Wildlife stress test and there too, the A18 thumbs the S24. iPhone 16’s GPU &CPU are more stable in comparison to the Exynos 2400. You can easily play AAA reted games on the iPhone so you can play them at higher FPS. If I talk about gaming specifically, the iPhone’s 60FPS is a bit restrictive as it has 120FPS.
You can play at higher settings on Samsung Galaxy S24, but you won’t be able to play at AAA settings. The A18 is definitely a more powerful chipset as it has a better CPU & GPU. So here, the iPhone 16 is the winner.


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Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Connectivity
In terms of connectivity, iPhone 16 has an edge so it’s much better because it has Wi-Fi 7 support and whereas in the S24, you get Wi-Fi 6E. Both of phones has 5G band support, you get Bluetooth 5.3 support in both of the phones. So I’d say the iPhone has an edge in connectivity.

Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Multimedia
Multimedia is interesting, because the video viewing experience is good as the display is bigger and brighter. People are liked the S24’s video viewing experience more but in terms of audio quality & and overall quality, iPhone is the best.

Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Battery
If I talk about battery, we got a screen-on battery life of 7 hours on the iPhone 16. The 3Nm processor on the A18 is much more power efficient and Exynos 2400 has 4Nm, so it’s slightly less power efficient. As far as overall battery life goes, I’ll give it to the iPhone 16. In wired charging, the S24 charges with 25W and iPhone charges with 20W. Samsung Galaxy S24 comes with 4000 mAh battery life and iPhone comes with 3561 mAh.


Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 OS & UI
You get OneUI 6.1 on the Samsung Galaxy S24. You can transcribe the Galaxy AI’s notes, format the notes, you can have to summarize a big white paper, it does it very well. There’s circle to search, translation and it has interpreter mode also. If I talk about iPhone 16, it has clean up features, updated Siri and Siri has integrated chat GPT, call recording, transcribe, writing tools, Genji. So there are lot of things and they work well. If I talk about updates, Samsung is promising 7 years of updates but iPhone has always good, but they generally have 5-6 years.
Samsung Galaxy S24 vs iPhone 16 Price
The base variant of the S24(8GB+256GB), is generally available in $799 and if I talk about iPhone 16, then you get the base variant(8GB+128GB) is available in $799.
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