I want to welcome you to a special podcast edition of the Clark Howard Show, Tech, Advice

and Arguments with my 13-year-old son Grant.

And so our show is about saving more and spending less and avoiding getting ripped off, but

my son is really about the latest, greatest technology.

And Grant, you have been putting head-to-head the most advanced Samsung, which is the S9

Plus.

And the new...

Well, it's really the Note 9, would be.

I thought the S9 Plus is pretty far along.

And then there's the new iPhone that is called the XS, and then there's the XS Max.

And then there's the S Max.

And you have been testing the XS versus the 9 Plus from Samsung.

These are each company's flagships, if you will.

Let us hear your perspective on these two incredibly expensive phones.

Okay.

So I really think that the Samsung is a better phone, but Samsung's operating system,

their layer on Google's operating system, Android, is horrible.

And it may be that I'm not used to it, but it really just doesn't seem intuitive.

And I feel like the iOS and pure Android is just much better.

So you're walking around with both phones these days.

How do you decide which phone you're going to pull out and use for what as you test them?

I feel like things like watching video mainly, the Samsung is better because you don't really

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