Samsung is a monster brand name and so as Apple then which brand to take home, you might be in dilemma. We gonna take you out of this tight spot, so here is an entire feature comparison between Samsung Galaxy S II and iPhone 4 with details. Go through the article and choose the best smarty on this Christmas for you or to gift your dear. Here are other Comparison you may love to look at- Samsung Galaxy Ace Vs HTC Wildfire S and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Vs Motorola Xoom
Design and Display
Once you get Samsung S II in your hands, you will feel like holding a flat, light weight and sleek phone. This is the best Galaxy series ever Samsung has introduced and it is awarded the No. 1 Android Smartphone of 2011. Whereas iPhone 4 has the finest body which is sleek but bit heavier than S II which weighs 137g and Samsung weighs 116g. The S II and iPhone 4 measures 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.49mm & 115.2 x 58.7 x 9.3mm respectively. Samsung Phone will easily get fitted into your jeans back pocket but iPhone 4 won’t fit into your pocket and another problem associated is signal loss if your cover the iPhone 4 bottom left corner, this will not put much ignorance.
The quality of Samsung’s screen is awesome as it measures 4.3 inch Super AMOLED plus with sharp, smooth and rich color display where as screen of iPhone 4 is 3.5 inch and has retina display which is edge over other phones in comparison, but in the bright light the users get little uneasy to see the screen as it reflects bright light in day. Both the phone has scratch proof glass in front with multi-touch inputs and supports accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, gyroscope sensor for 360 degree movement and proximity sensor for auto turn-off.
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II
Operating System
Samsung Galaxy S II runs in Android 2.3 Gingerbread version and can be upgraded to version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. We had news on ice cream sandwich that the OS has volume rocker ON/OFF bug issue last week but Google had announced the fixation of the trouble soon. This news might have forced buyers to step back but it’s not a big issue so don’t lose hope and you can look forward to buy with no hesitation. Apple iPhone 4 runs on Ios4 and further it can be upgraded to iOS 5.
Few people things Android 4.0 is bit complex to use and people find trouble in using it so you need not to upgrade your Gingerbread S II where as Apple phone is simple and easy to operate which can little down the S II. iPhone 4 also has no hidden keys pass and has clear, easy to use options.
Champion – iPhone 4 as per the simple OS.
Processor
Samsung Galaxy owes a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Mali-400MP GPU and Exynos chipset. The device is capable of multi operation in few seconds which means fast web access and instant switching between applications. The operation doesn’t put pressure on the phones processor and you won’t believe that its web-page loading is much faster than iPhones. The Apple’s iPhone 4 is equipped with 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX535GPU and Apple A4 chipset which performs multiple functions but CPU of S II is capable of handling better as compared to iPhone 4
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II
Camera
As we all know Samsung offer better quality camera lenses and in Galaxy S II the camera is sported with 8MP with 3264×2448 pixels shots and supports autofocus, LED flash and has 2MP secondary camera for video chatting. Whereas iPhone 4 has 5MP with 2592 x 1944 pixels which is indeed a week camera than Galaxy but also supports LED and autofocus like its opponent and supports VGA quality front camera for video chatting (only in WiFi).
The images are very pleasing in S II and the video recording is also possible on 1080p at 30fps but iPhone 4 video recording not much good as it only records through 720p at 30fps. Both has the facility to geo-tag and touch focus but apart from this Galaxy has face & smile detection extra feature with image stabilizing.
Multimedia
OMG!! iPhone is not for those guys who instantly upload and transfer songs via Bluetooth or data cable because here in iPhone you must to have iTunes to manage your songs and videos. iPhone will not accept any Bluetooth connection from other devices apart from its own kind. Exactly there is no flexibility as compared to other Smartphones available in the market. There is a default iPod option present in iPhone for multimedia which supports audio formats like MP3, MPE VBR, AIFF, Apple Lossless, WAV and other Apple formats. It offers video formats as .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
In Samsung Galaxy S II you get STEREO FM radio and a music player and from Android Market you can upload any music player app and play songs through it. It supports MP3, WAV, eAAC+, AC3 & FLAC as audio formats and MP4, DivX, XviD, WMV, H.264 & H.263 as video formats respectably.
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II
Storage & Battery
Samsung Galaxy S II comes with 16GB and 32GB models and has 1GB RAM. In the box there is an 8GB already available. Isn’t great! And it supports microSD card slot which can be expanded to 32GB further. Whereas iPhone with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models but it can’t further expanded because it does’t not support microSD card.
iPhone is equipped with rechargeable lithium-ion battery which has 7 h/3G, 14 h/2G talktime and standby up to 300 h. you can play 10h video playback and 40 h audio playback respectively. Whereas Samsung Galaxy S II uses standards Li-ion 1650mAh battery which has a talktime of 9 h/3G, 18 h 20 min/2G and standby of 710h in 2G & 610h in 3G. In iPhone the battery is not removable and there are other comparisons between Apple Vs Android.
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II
Connectivity & Data transfer
Both the phone uses 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 networking. Samsung Galaxy S II has a data speed of 5.76 Mbps in HSUPA mode and 21 Mbps in HSDPA mode where as iPhone has a data speed of 5.76 Mbps in HSUPA mode and 7.2 Mbps in HSDPA mode. Both the phones use Bluetooth v3.0 in Samsung and v2.1 in iPhone . Also uses WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n and WiFi hotspot, Samsung uses Class 12 GPRS/EDGE and Apple uses 10 GPRS/EDGE respectively. They also support USB connectivity and A-GPS.
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II for data speed.
Price
Pricing of Samsung Galaxy S II is $577 and you can get offers that is available in flipkart in India and US users can get through T-Mobile in 2 year contract at a price of $229.99 or from at&t. if you want to buy iPhone 4 then it can be pocket at a price of $664 (16GB) & $779 ($32GB) from Airtel in India and for US users at&t, Sprint and Verizon give on a contract basis ranging from $199 to $399 according to GB.
From the pricing factor Samsung Galaxy S II is the cheapest one then iPhone 4.
Champion – Samsung Galaxy S II
Conclusion
From the above comparison between iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S II, it has been cleared that Samsung is winning over Apple. I would recommend you to go with S II. S II comes in white and black color which is cheaper than Apple.
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