Serial Samsung leaker expects the Galaxy S25 Ultra and iPhone 16 Pro Max to share many key traits

The S25 Ultra will be “more Ultra” than its arch-rival in one key department

The Dynamic Island will be the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s big visual disadvantage compared to the S25 Ultra. | Image Credit — Ice Universe on X

Now, we don’t have any precise numbers to give you today, but we have something perhaps more valuable than that – an inside perspective on some of the key similarities and differences between the two most exciting smartphones of the next few months. 

Let’s also talk some numbers real quick

The Galaxy S24 Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro Max are similar but far from identical. | Image Credit — PhoneArena

Far from etched in stone, the recently rumored dimensions of the next two top mobile dogs go a little bit like this:

Now those are some incredibly similar figures. In fact, they’re almost identical, and there’s a good chance both screens will be rounded up to 6.9 inches, for instance. The height, depth, and weight differences (if real) are likely to prove virtually imperceptible, while the bezel sizes are typically not advertised by many companies, so we’ll probably have to measure them for ourselves when the phones are released to verify if they’re truly and exactly alike.

With all of this in mind, it feels safer than ever to expect two very different ultra-high-end phones to look extremely similar at first glance, which is however not necessarily a bad thing. Not when both of them are set to further reduce the amazingly thin bezels of their predecessors and add a little bit of extra screen real estate without becoming noticeably taller, wider, thicker, or heavier.