The market for mobile devices is teeming with competitors, but the leading manufacturers are invariably the companies of Apple and Samsung. Most of the profits come from their flagship smartphones. In any other parallel universe, gadgets can and could get along in the world, but clearly not in ours. Will the new Galaxy S4 help Samsung break into absolute leaders? Or will the iPhone 5 survive after six months on the market? Let's see and compare, their specifications and other features.
Dimensions
The flagship Android phone continues to grow in size, while Apple is very sensitive to the dimensions of its iPhone 5, and compared to the previous generation of iPhone 4S, the company has achieved a 20% reduction in thickness. Galaxy S4 in all dimensions is superior to iPhone5.
The downside is the argument that Android phones have become too large, and the iPhone is more convenient to use. Before making a decision, it is better to compare both machines to find out which size suits you more.
Materials
The material from which the Galaxy S4 body is made is not exactly premium. Mostly it is the plastic of which the Galaxy S3 consists. IPhone 5 is made mainly of anodized aluminum.
Galaxy S3 showed that for millions of customers the material of manufacture does not play a big role. But if you need material and premium quality build, then iPhone 5 and HTC one are an order of magnitude superior to their competitor Galaxy S4.
The weight
If you are looking for a light phone, then this is the iPhone 5. Although the Galaxy S4 is lighter than the Galaxy S3, but it's still 16% heavier than Apple's flagship.
Display
The extra inch on the diagonal of the Galaxy S4 gives you more than a million extra pixels. Samsung also increased the density of pixels per inch.
Will your eyes notice the huge difference between 441PPI and 326 PPI? Probably not. But the difference in size and resolution of displays is, and it is essential.
CPU
On paper - and probably in tests - both versions of the Galaxy S4 will beat the performance of the iPhone 5.
But if you look from the point of view of optimizability, both the iOS operating system and numerous applications, the hardware and software are going to keep up, and the higher number of cores with high clock speed does not mean faster, and stable operation.
RAM
The next superiority of the Galaxy S4 is 2 GB of RAM, which is twice the size of the iPhone 5 - 1 GB.
Memory
In Galaxy S4, in addition to the built-in memory, there are microSD cards (expandable up to 64 GB). And here Samsung bypassed Apple.
Wireless network
In regions where 4G LTE is available, both phones must support it. Samsung will sell individual Galagy S4 models, which are designed for HSPA + speeds (relatively fast, but not fast LTE) in certain regions. iPhone 5 will also support HSPA + LTE by default, for accessible regions, Russia unfortunately does not fall into this list.
Battery
Here is another parameter, where the Galaxy S4 looks great. But we can not take the battery capacity as an absolute measure of actual performance - especially when the S4 battery feeds the display with more than one million extra pixels.
Apple estimates that for the iPhone 5 it's eight hours of trouble-free operation, conversation or internet surfing. Conclusions on the life of the GalaxyS4 battery is still too early to do.
Cameras
В GalaxyS4 две камеры — основная с разрешением 13 мегапикселей, со светодиодной вспышкой и режимом комбинирования 100 снимков за 4 секунды Drama Shot и 2-мегапиксельная фронтальная. Функция Dual Camera позволяет снимать фото и видео одновременно с обеих камер («картинка в картинке»), а Sound & Shot — добавлять к снимку звуковое сопровождение. iPhone 5 пока может похвастаться только 8-мегапиксельной основной камерой и 1.2 – мегапиксельной фронтальной.
Galaxy S4 runs Android 4.2.2 Jellybean - and includes basic applications from Google, such as: Play Store, Gmail and Google Maps. Apple uses its most advanced mobile operating system in the world iOS 6.
Let's sum up our comparison. Powerful stuffing, surpassing the iPhone in almost all respects. The price, which is not yet called, will be roughly on par with the iPhone 5, based on the cost of production. Serious competitor, you say, in Apple for some reason do not think so, the style and quality certainly remain for them. Just do not forget about the iPhone 5S, which will be released this summer, many believe that it will surpass S4.
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