Comparison of Microsoft Lumia 950 XL vs Samsung Galaxy S9

Comparison of
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL

General Features General Features
Release Date 2015-01-01 2018, February
SIM Support Nano-SIM Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Phone Dimensions 5.98 x 3.09 x 0.32 in 5.81 x 2.70 x 0.33 in
Phone Weight 165 g 163 g
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Display Display
Screen Size 5.7 inches 5.8 inches
Screen Resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels 1440 x 2960 pixels
Screen Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Screen Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4 Corning Gorilla Glass 5
Memory Memory
Internal Memory 32 GB 64/128/256 GB
RAM 3 GB RAM 4 GB RAM
Card Slot microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) microSD, up to 512 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) - dual SIM model only
Performance Performance
Processor Octa-core (4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A57) Octa-core (4x2.7 GHz Mongoose M3 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) - EMEAOcta-core (4x2.8 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4x1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver) - USA/LATAM, China
GPU Adreno 430 Mali-G72 MP18 - EMEAAdreno 630 - USA/LATAM, China
Battery Battery
Type Removable Li-Ion 3340 mAh battery Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery (11.55 Wh)
Camera Camera
Front Camera 5 MP 8 MP
Front Flash Light No
Front Video Recording 1080p@30fps 1440p@30fps
Back Flash Light Yes Yes
Back Camera 20 MP 12 MP
Back Video Recording 2160p@30fps, stereo sound rec., 1080p@30/60fps (after SW update) 2160p@60fps, 1080p@240fps, 720p@960fps, HDR, dual-video rec.
Connectivity Connectivity
Bluetooth Yes Yes
3G Yes Yes
4G/LTE Yes Yes
5G
Radio FM radio FM radio (USA & Canada only)
WiFi Yes Yes
NFC Yes Yes

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