Seth2015

18 watts?

Some flagship phones are twice that . Hell, my *wireless *charging isn't too far from that.

I just expected more, I guess

Whew, that's not fast at all ...

revenant said:

South Korea will be rolling out the first commercial 5g network, so there will be one market for it, though i doubt it will be worth samsung jumping in on it, but we shall see.

also

"One problem: there's aren't networks that fast." ??

Manufacturers don't make a different handset for every market, with different features. They'll make a handset supporting as many bands and categories as possible, to cater for every market. But some manufacturers will rather wait until they feel things are more mature before implementing (by that time, we're eyeing 6G already ..) - and that's ok too! That's how they do things.

I have a LTE Cat 21 modem in my phone (I think iPhone will likely get this in a year or two as well) and while we don't specifically have Cat 21 networks, it certainly helps. I did a speedtest the other day of 160Mbps+ on LTE, which is certainly higher than other phones, including the iPhone. This is one of those things where iPhone users won't care / eat battery / not mature etc because they don't have it yet.

The same situation has played out for 10+ years  

@radarthekat ;

I didn't say everything - I specifically said that instead of focusing so much a chip set, rather look elsewhere. The features below aren't bad at all - but they're not #1 when it comes to any Top 10 list.

1. Battery capacity
2. Battery charge speed
3. LTE modem
4. Screen resolution
5. Camera

And regarding Face ID - I urge you to research ... the Huawei Mate 20 Pro has a similar IR dot system (ie 3D) that photos cannot be used. I think the system you're referring is the 6 year old facial precondition which relied on simple 2D. By default though, that required a blink and photos didn't work to open it either?

Energy efficient is not really accurate? It's generally one of the first phones to die in any battery test (see above)

@tmay People use different devices. I have both an iPhone X (standby phone every 2 weeks) and Huawei. You want a real world opinion? You can't see the difference in speed in actual using the phones. There's no jitter or judder, despite what Strangedays thinks he knows.

Anyhow - but based on the comments here slating Androids, it'd be interesting to see which the people have used (or even read about;). There's a great world out there of mobile phones! @Madtiger wasn't even aware that Huawei phones be bought anywhere in the world - yet they're the second largest manufacture behind Samsung? So, it's very interesting how he (and others) can be that opinionated on something he has zero idea about.