iPhone 18 Pro Max vs Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Compare iPhone 18 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra side by side. Display, camera, battery, performance specs with practical analysis.
Pick any two phones from our database and see them side by side — display, processor, camera, battery, dimensions, connectivity and software, with every difference highlighted and rated by significance.
47 phones are currently published with sourced specifications. Prefer to read first? Jump to the specification categories, phone size comparison, or the questions below.
Results appear above as a full specification table. Use the Differences Only switch to collapse matching rows, and open any product name for the full record with sources.
The comparison table covers the specification groups below. Only attributes present in our product records are shown — if a value has not been verified, the cell reads “—” instead of an estimate.
Size in inches, resolution, panel type, refresh rate, peak brightness, HDR support and glass protection.
Chipset, fabrication process, CPU core count, GPU, RAM capacity and RAM type.
Available capacities, whether it is expandable, and the storage standard used.
Main, ultrawide, telephoto and front sensors with megapixels, aperture, optical zoom and maximum video resolution and frame rate.
Capacity in mAh, wired charging wattage, wireless charging wattage and reverse wireless support.
Height, width, depth, weight, frame and back materials, water resistance rating and colour options.
5G support, Wi-Fi generation, Bluetooth version, NFC, USB standard and satellite messaging.
Launch operating system, manufacturer skin, OS update years and security update years.
Every value carries a source and a verification date on the phone database. See how to compare product specifications for a walkthrough of reading a spec sheet.
Features are compared as present, absent or unconfirmed rather than as a score. The current feature set includes HDR support, expandable storage, reverse wireless charging, NFC, 5G, satellite messaging, water resistance and the manufacturer's on-device AI features.
Where one phone lists a feature and the other does not, the row is flagged as one-sided rather than as a win. Absence of information is not evidence of absence — if you spot a gap, please report it.
Height, width, depth and weight are part of every product record, so the size difference between two phones is a number rather than an impression. For a visual answer, the size comparison draws both handsets to the same scale and reports the percentage difference on each axis plus the front-face area.
Comparing phone specifications means deciding which attributes matter to you first, then reading only those rows — the same method as a phone comparison by specs, but with the attributes chosen for how you actually use a phone rather than for how complete a specification sheet looks. A few practical starting points:
When you compare phone specifications in this table, every value comes from the product record it sits on, and each record carries its own sources and verification date. Where a manufacturer has not published a figure, the row shows a data gap instead of an estimate — a specification comparison is only useful if the missing entries are visible as missing. To compare phone features rather than numbers, add them as text rows: identical values match, everything else is marked different.
The same tool is available at the phone comparison tool page, and the result URL is shareable.
There is no universally correct answer, only the attributes that matter for how you use a phone. The list below is the one we would work through, in rough order of how often it changes a decision:
Determines whether the phone is comfortable to hold and carry. Check height, width, depth and weight together.
Capacity in mAh plus wired and wireless wattage. Compare capacity against display size rather than in isolation.
Years of OS and security updates remaining from launch — the clearest higher-is-better specification.
Which lenses exist, their aperture and optical zoom. Configuration is a documented fact; image quality is not something we test.
Chipset, CPU cores, GPU and RAM. Relevant for gaming and heavy multitasking; less so for messaging and calls.
Which capacities are offered and whether storage is expandable. Check the price of the capacity you actually need.
Price belongs in this list too, but only when you are looking at a current, verifiable figure. Our records store manufacturer suggested retail prices with a verification date; street prices move faster than any database.
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Match a phone to your real usage pattern - camera, gaming, battery, portability or budget - instead of the headline specification you never use.
Search for both models in the selectors above and press Compare Now. The tool builds a side-by-side table across display, performance, camera, battery, design, storage, connectivity and software, and marks every row that differs.
Start with the attributes that change how a phone is used: display size and brightness, chipset and RAM, camera configuration, battery capacity and charging, dimensions and weight, and the software update commitment. Our comparison table groups these so you can scan one area at a time.
Yes. Height, width, depth and weight are part of the specification table, and the dedicated phone size comparison draws both phones to scale and reports the percentage difference on each axis.
Yes. Main, ultrawide, telephoto and front cameras are compared by megapixel count, aperture, optical zoom and video capability. We compare documented camera specifications only — we do not publish photo-quality scores, because we do not run camera tests.
Each specification is read from the product records in our database, which are sourced from manufacturer pages and cross-referenced with independent sources. Differences are classified as high, medium or low significance using published thresholds per attribute. Missing values appear as a dash rather than a guess.
Yes. There is no account, no limit and no cost. Comparisons are shareable as a URL so you can send them or come back to them later.
Specifications are sourced from manufacturers' official product pages and cross-referenced with independent sources. We do not run lab tests, do not assign scores, and show “—” where a value is unverified.
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