Samsung counters iPhone 4S with Galaxy S II comparison chart
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Most consumers are not interested in checklists, comparisons, "anything you can do I can do better!" Consumers are interested in apps. Services. Angry Birds. iTunes. Status. Style.
Just look at some of these. "Can be used as HDTV remote control." "microSD slot." "Content Stores."
These don't matter to the average person. They may matter to you or me, sure - I certainly envy a handful of Android features - but they do not matter to most people. And that's the biggest flaw in high-end Android phones, and why they don't take away iOS market share in the high end, only replace dumbphones in the low end.
This, by the way, is why the Droid is the only Android phone brand that has been impressed on the average users. They had the standout commercials, and as weirdly overproduced as they were, it worked far better than the average feature checklist, announcer spouting off stats, or comparison chart.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts when it comes to smart phones. Comparisons like this miss the big picture.
You don't know whether your hardware vendor will supply updates. Or whether your carrier and vendor will get in some spat over who knows what. And then when you buy the latest greatest you have to be sure you're picking the popular phone that actually gets apps tested against it, etc, etc, etc. And then what particular carrier installs the least crapware, etc. Does it have the right chip that will have acceleration in the future? Does the battery last 2 hours or 20? How many extra batteries should I buy for my particular Android phone?
Does my iPhone have the right external buttons to make the apps I want to use most productive, etc? Should I get a phone with or without a physical keyboard?
Apple's value prop is primarily that their providing a known commodity, you know the apps are going to work, it's almost impossible to choose the 'wrong' iPhone, and Apple doesn't get into silly spats with carriers about updates. You can definitely put together an Android experience that's on par with Apple but you're rolling the dice unless you wait 6 months to buy the hardware. And then there's the issue of going to the multitude of stores to find out which one has the phone for the cheapest.
It's like changing the oil on my car, yes I know how to do it, I even have jack stands, yet I take it to the shop and pay someone else to do it? Why? Because my time is worth more than it costs.
Samsung, or any other same-space competitor is making no allusions about converting hordes of Apple customers based on a chart or infograph; they're reconverting existing customers and trolling for virgins.
td;dr: your wife will put out if you talk about the new girl at the office.
4.3" screen (the Fusion edit: make that "Infuse" is 4.5") versus 3.5" screen is a massive difference.
Apple pushes Facetime yet Samsung SGII has front camera with 2MP 1920x1080 versus the iPhone at VGA 640x480 (.3MP)
Vlingo is pretty darn good too.
Although Android has to fix stuff like this http://i.imgur.com/mGwxD.jpg
If it's a smartphone I would say it's main purpose is to view websites and use apps such as Facetime or equivalent which would be uncomfortable on a small fuzzy screen.
Some day we get the roll-up displays and have scroll like phones with large folding/roll-up screens.
My claim is: 3.5 inch screens are a good compromise, allowing for comfortable browsing, reading and writing. The additional screen space would never be worth the additional bulk (also: uncomfortable one hand use) for me.
That's all about personal preference.
Someone with an iPhone would be used to the "hand feel" of a 4" (101mm) iPhone if the screen bezel were thinner.
It is odd that there isn't any ready-to-go Samsung app for it (I have an SGII) or at least I didn't see one yet.
It's not a big surprise though since not all phones which use the Android OS have a front facing camera so it would be up to the individual phone manufacturers to add an app if their phone has a front camera.
For my part, some of their plusses are actually detractors.
Removable battery? Every phone I've had was rickety and ended up with a broken battery cover (I wouldn't consider myself hard on electronics) and a bunch of lint and dust inside the phone. 4+ inch screen? Seems big and it's lower resolution, I prefer higher DPI in a smaller screen that can fit in my pocket without making a big flat bulge. And lastly 4G = battery drain. 3G where I live has great performance and I often use the personal wi-fi hotspot and for regular browsing and email and stuff I have only good things to say.
Also imagine the space you save by not having a user serviceable battery compartment. No latches and contacts in a little plastic housing and walls to separate the battery from the rest of the device. You can make it any shape you want and fill the entire device.
I don't think giving away those benefits are really very worthwhile in any device I own. That includes everything from my toothbrush to my laptop.
Also, not having to pay an extra $100 or $200 for more capacity, although they probably "don't care" in that they just buy the smallest iPhone.
Then makes them go "crap" when they're trying to walk and text with one thumb.
The only edge AMOLED has is in battery life.
Small thing that happened today: a collegue of mine happens to have an S2, and he had to charge his today at 3PM. I gave him a strange look and asked if he had charged him over-night. "Yea sure". Then I asked him what he had done with his phone today, I wanted to compare his usage with mine, which was imo an average use.
This was my iPhone 4's activity up to that point: 1) In the car: connected to the car-kit with Bluetooth, making 1 call of about 5 minutes 2) In the car: connected with a cable to the car-radio playing music for about 40 minuted. Since the car-radio kit was only intended for old iPods, this causes the display to be constant "on" while playing music, and displaying "charging not supported with this accessory". 3) Calling about 30 minutes in the office 4) Sending about 20 texts 5) Receiving about 50 texts (some servers went down and spammed my phone) 6) Playing music using my earbuds for about an hour. 7) Checked twitter and facebook when I got a notification 8) Played one Planets vs Zombies level. 9) Installing Infinity Blade and 5 other smaller app updates from the appstore over WiFi (Infinity blade alone is 500mb+)
My battery level now, about 3,5h after he had to charge his phone: 65%. Now his answer was: 1) a 5 minute call 2) and sending/receiving about 10 texts in total. 3) 5 minutes of checking the news in the browser during lunch. 4) Searching and installing a small app on the Android market and playing with it for a few minutes.
I almost couldn't believe this, so asked him about a carkit? No. Music in car? No. Music at the office? No. He then made it worse by mentioning he had a "battery improvement" app installed, which he claimed helped a lot, and that he had bluetooth and wifi disabled. Certainly the wifi struck me as odd, but he explained he had a 2gb/month data contract, so he didn't really care, and enabled his wifi manually when he thought it was needed.
We both started the day at 100%. Ok, so he did start his day about 1h earlier than me, but still, it should at least make it through the day with that little useage?
So yea, apparently, the AMOLED really helps to improve the battery life...
My iPhone 4 outlasts almost any Android phone you care to name, regardless of screen technology.
I'm not sure if what Android reports is correct, but it is a good indication imho...
3G CDMA is something I had on my windows Treo like 6 years ago. Its incredible how this ancient technology is the standard for millions of new iPhone 4S customers. I feel sorry for the guys signing 2 year contracts on this stuff.
This comes off as a fanboy response or at least ill-informed. Right now 4G devices drain battery life. It is faster but there are compromises to be made.
One could easily argue that Samsung has a lower res screen and ppi, the A5 is vastly superior to the Enyox and the S II has a rear casing made of plastic.
There are benefits to the S II as well such as a larger screen (if that is your preference), better front camera and removable battery.
I don't think that 4G/HSPA+ is a clear benefit to customers considering that real world speeds aren't what is stated by Apple or Samsung and it it is still not widespread.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4760/arms-mali400-mp4-is-the-f...
In terms of performance, the Mali-400 MP is only slightly behind the PowerVR SGX543MP2. The only major performance difference is the A5.
Even if you allow Apple all the benefits of the doubt here, I'm not sure it mounts up to easily arguing that it's vastly superior, "has a slower CPU, less RAM (guessing, sort-of) and a better GPU" maybe.
Strange how customer-satisfaction rates (or anything of the like) don't show up in these comparison charts -- too squishy, I guess. And really, who cares whether people actually like using this thing? It's got a Super AMOLED Plus display, dangit!
iPhone 4S vs download speeds:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/10/04/speeds.jpg
and
iPhone 4S camera response speeds:
http://www.thewwwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/iphone-...
Apple is all about the specs when it thinks it can win, and when it cant (like the 4G downloads or the classic Altivec bake-offs with Photoshop) it's not beneath cooking up ridiculously misleading nonsense to use for spec-whoring.
And I've read that people are having trouble replicating the photo speed numbers, so we'll have to see exactly what circumstances lead to these numbers. Apple's benchmarks have never been very fair (not that they're alone in that as far as marketing goes) so I'd rather see independent confirmation before taking anything they say in a keynote as gospel.
(And of course historically, the use of Altivec-based Photoshop filters that didn't reflect general processor speed).
But I just can't see myself as a consumer using a comparison chart like this to decide which one I will actually buy. I don't care if the screen is "Super AMOLED Plus" or "Retina", I care which one looks better.
Either way, I do believe the Galaxy S II is better than the iPhone 4S, and although I think fanbois don't care about these stuff, things such as microSD slot, 4G, weight and price matter to most people; maybe they don't care about the other technical mumbo jumbo.
And, please, Kies SUCKS!