Apple iPhone 16E vs. Samsung Galaxy S24 FE: Evaluating the Decrease-Price Telephones

Apple’s iPhone 16E and Samsung’s Galaxy S24 FE are each reasonably priced options to costlier flagship gadgets. The $599 iPhone 16E is an entry-level model of the $799 iPhone 16 whereas the $650 Galaxy S24 FE is a less expensive model of the $700 Galaxy S24 and $800 Galaxy S25. Each handsets provide an analogous pitch: premium options however with out the premium value. After all, with each choices, you do hand over a couple of bells and whistles in an effort to preserve that decrease price. 

If you wish to see whether or not these telephones measure as much as their pricier siblings, we’ll refer you to those two comparisons: the iPhone 16E vs the iPhone 16 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 vs the S24 FE. However if you wish to see how these two finances rivals evaluate to one another, learn on for extra.

Design 

Even at first look, the 2 telephones look fully completely different. The iPhone 16E has a notch on the prime of the display screen (the iPhone 16, alternatively, has the newer Dynamic Island as a substitute) whereas the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE simply has a single dot for the front-facing digicam. Each have an aluminium body and a Gorilla glass show. 

Talking of the show, they’re fairly completely different on that entrance too. The iPhone 16E has a 6.1-inch OLED show with a 60Hz refresh charge with a peak brightness of 1,200 nits. If it weren’t for the Dynamic Island, the iPhone 16E’s show would look almost an identical to the iPhone 16 at face worth. 

The Galaxy S24 FE, nonetheless, has a bigger 6.7-inch display screen with a extra spectacular 120Hz refresh charge. The Galaxy S24 FE additionally has a better peak brightness of 1,900 nits. It is a larger show than the 6.1-inch display screen on the Galaxy S24, and may very well be an in depth comparability to the bigger Galaxy S24 Plus.

Like its pricier sibling, the iPhone 16E has Face ID for unlocking the gadget by trying straight at it. The Galaxy S24 FE, nonetheless, makes use of an optical fingerprint sensor for unlocking your cellphone. That sensor is barely slower than what Samsung consists of within the more-expensive Galaxy S24, however is functionally an identical.

Colour-wise, the iPhone 16E is available in simply black and white, whereas the Galaxy S24 FE is available in blue, mint, grey and graphite. 

Digital camera 

The Galaxy S24 FE completely wins the digicam spherical by offering considerably extra choices for pictures. It has three rear digicam lenses – a 50-megapixel broad lens, an ultrawide lens with a 12-megapixel sensor, plus a 3x telephoto lens with an 8-megapixel picture sensor. The iPhone 16E, alternatively, has only a single 48-megapixel digicam on the again. To mitigate the decrease digicam rely, the iPhone 16E makes use of sensor cropping to get 2x magnification for higher pictures. 

Each telephones use their processing energy to assist in a wide range of conditions, together with an evening mode for low gentle pictures and portrait mode for once you desire a bokeh impact.

As for front-facing cameras, the iPhone 16E has a 12-megapixel sensor — matching the iPhone 16 — whereas the Galaxy S24 FE has a 10-megapixel one which’s barely downgraded from the Galaxy S24’s 12-megapixel selfie digicam. 

AI options

The iPhone 16E helps Apple Intelligence, a characteristic that was beforehand solely in higher-end iPhones just like the 15 Professional and the iPhone 16 sequence. Apple Intelligence options are nonetheless rolling out, and to this point embrace a Clear Up software for eradicating objects from images, writing instruments for proofreading work and textual content summarization. An improved model of Siri can also be set for a future replace.

Samsung’s Galaxy AI is a showcase characteristic within the Galaxy S24 FE, and consists of art-focused options like turning sketches into images in addition to increasing the body of a picture. Galaxy AI additionally consists of textual content message translation, audio transcription and its personal set of writing instruments.

Worth

The iPhone 16E at the moment retails for $599 beginning value whereas the Galaxy S24 FE begins at $650 (these costs are for his or her 128GB variations). Nonetheless, the Galaxy S24 FE can typically be discovered for cheaper at Finest Purchase or Walmart. On the time of this writing for instance, the 256GB Galaxy S24 FE is obtainable from Walmart for round $565 (usually this may retail round $700). 

Use the beneath chart to additional evaluate the variations between the Apple cellphone and Samsung cellphone, and it’s also possible to take a look at our iPhone 16E assessment and the Galaxy S24 FE assessment for a deeper dive into every gadget.

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