With new phone releases scheduled for both Samsung and Apple in the near future, and a whole bunch of people who will be looking to upgrade to either one of the two, I thought it a pretty fitting time to write an honest user review on both of the current handsets available at the moment from these top two mobile competitors.

Apps

According to my other half, Samsung’s Android operating system offers more apps. More of the Android apps are free than on Apple’s iOS too. I didn’t find a difference with regards to the apps that I personally use.

There is one difference that I found between the apps on each phone which greatly influenced something that I use pretty regularly: Instagram. Lets talk about how disappointed I am with Samsung’s lack of compatibility with the Instagram app, specifically the selfie camera. The photos taken with the Instagram front camera on S8+ below show you exactly why; the iPhone takes the picture exactly as it should and gives you the normal options to edit and move forward.Samsung just can’t handle this, it takes the picture and automatically zooms in so that your face is the only thing in the shot. Not so candid and definitely not Instagram material, thanks Samsung. This might not be a big deal for a lot of people, but I use the Instagram selfie camera much more often than I use the standard selfie camera. This is because you can screenshot the photo on Instagram so that it doesn’t mirror image your face. Apple 1 – Samsung 0.