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okay what's going on Android lovers this is Clayton over to Android Authority calm today we've got a head-to-head comparison of the Samsung Galaxy s3 and the lg optimus 4x HD now a lot of people may know that these are two of the hottest quad-core smartphones available right now so we're just gonna pick them head-to-head show their hardware software and some native apps that conflict anyways the Samsung Galaxy s3 is the GSM unlocked version and the LG Optimus is hailing from the UK and it does not have a release date for the US yet but we're still gonna compare these two and show you which one might come out on top so let us go over some of the hardware right now as far as the lg optimus 4x HD we've got a 4.7 inch true HD IPS LCD screen now the liquid crystalline display is arranged in a way that provides an optimal viewing angle and that's what the IPS means that stands for in plane switching and the guest Samsung Galaxy s3 is running a Super AMOLED display of 4.8 inches now the resolution is the same on both of these it's 720 by 1280 and we've got Corning Gorilla Glass 1 on the lg optimus and then we've got the Corning Gorilla Glass 2 on the Samsung Galaxy s3 the Samsung Galaxy s3 has 306 pixels per inch and the LG has 312 pixels per inch so we're up 6 pixels in favor of the LG there anyways we've got a 8 megapixel camera on the lg optimus 4x HD and we also do on the samsung galaxy s3 you can see here on the back they each have an LED flash and the speaker on the new Samsung Galaxy s3 is right here speakers here on the LG now we've also got front-facing cameras on each of these the LG is a 1.3 megapixel front-facing with 700 720p excuse me resolution and the Samsung Galaxy s3 is a 1.9 megapixel camera with 720p do capabilities as well now as far as internals go we're running an Nvidia tegra3 quad-core processor in the LG now the quad core in the Tegra 3 also has a fifth core which is a more of a stable core to run your smaller not really graphic intensive it's clock at 500 megahertz just gives you some battery saving and then in the Samsung Galaxy s3 we have our quad-core 1.4 gigahertz cortex a9 so we have 1 point 5 mega Hertz versus 1.4 we're gonna do a benchmark and just show you which one actually is faster anyways we've got a 20 150 milli amp battery inside of the lg optimus and we've got a 2100 milliamp battery inside of the samsung galaxy s3 so we have about 50 more milliamps on the LG not really gonna make a difference but you know if you're a number cruncher that might make a difference to you so if we take a look at both devices we can basically see that they're just about as thick as each other they're not you know one's not much bigger than the other we do have our 4.8 inch screen for 0.7 but the lg optimus is about 8.9 millimeters thick and the samsung galaxy s3 is 8.6 millimeter so anyways on the bottom of both of these devices we have our micro USB we've got our power button on the right side of the samsung galaxy s3 and our power button is on the top of the lg optimus 4x HD our volume toggle is on the left side of both with an up and down rocker and then the galaxy s3 has a physical home screen button as well as two capacitive four menu and back now the lg optimus has a capacitive touch screen on the bottom for home menu and back as well and then our reasons are accessed by holding home as well as on the Samsung Galaxy s3 now anyways we'll just peel the back off both of these because I want to give you guys a good comparison of how strong they actually are now when you take the back off of the lg optimus 4x HD let's remove it from the bottom and we have our device face down this is a pretty strong backing it's it's really not flimsy at all you know it's kind of hard to bend it's very strong add some weight to the device makes you feel if the device is pretty stable and will remove the back from the samsung galaxy s3 which is a little more difficult and to be honest is a little more flimsy once you get it off as you can see here this is just some bendy plastic you know it's really shiny it's some flimsy plastic but you know it's it doesn't make much of a difference as you can see here we have our internals both of these have expandable storage two SIM card slots and they both weigh basically the exact same so let's get into some of the software as you can see each of these phones has their own intuitive lock screen the Samsung Galaxy s3 having the natural lock screen the water drips and we can just unlock it by swiping it and then the lg optimus has a lock screen that you can basically touch anywhere and then open so once each device is open we can see here that on the lg optimus we're running our Optimus version 3 user interface which is the skin that LG puts over the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and then we're running our TouchWiz 4.0 interface on the samsung galaxy s3 which is the skin that Samsung puts over the operating system of Ice Cream Sandwich anyways we'll just go into our settings on both show you which our version of Android we're running we go down to our about phone and we see on the lg we're running Android 4.0.3 and then on the Samsung Galaxy s3 we're running Android 4.0.4 okay so if we go into our app tray on each of these devices we see that we have some pre-loaded apps both from LG and then from Samsung and some of them serve the same functionality now some of the Samsung has the v LG doesn't and some of the LG has the Samsung doesn't we'll just go over that here in a minute now we have our Samsung go on the samsung galaxy s3 and that compares to the LG smart world on the LG now basically these are both app suites that can suggest apps based upon your preferences and your demographics now I had to enter my age and my is a few a bit more information on the gums Samsung Galaxy s3 in order to use the Samsung ago and then I had to register an account on the LG smart world anyways we'll go over here and we can see that which have different memo applications on the lg optimus 4x HD we have a memo available in the toggle up here of course we do have our toggles on both of these devices but up here we have our quick memo app which when we select it we can draw anywhere on the screen at any time just draw draw draw make a member to your buddies but on the Samsung Galaxy s3 I have a widget set up and we have our S Memo now our S Memo is available to use within the app and it doesn't necessarily allow you to use it at any point and so that's where the advantage goes to LG now we can bring down and also use it in their own respective in-app applications anyways stylus proves handy in these situations and the LG is very responsive to a stylus and so is the Samsung Galaxy s3 okay so as many of you know these Samsung Galaxy s3 does have the s voice app and that the LG is lacking such an app anyways we can demo the S voice skip all that look up the lg optimus 4x HD and we'll see that analyzed and you know it missed a few of the words but it did search along the general lines of what I was waiting for it to do anyways the LG is lacking that functionality so it is still advantage Samsung um on our LG we have our and FC functionality and we do on the Samsung Galaxy s3 but there's no native app for you'll need to download one from a Play Store we have our LG tab on the LG with our pre-loaded NFC tags that come in the box so both of these do have Android Beam though mind you and we can beam info from one phone to another via NFC chips now we'll just compare some of the hardware such as the Cam Ranh each they both are rocking the eight megapixel camera and they both take pretty good pictures as you can see here we're just kind of filming our white surface so you can't really get a good test but as far as camera speed it seems like the galaxy s3 is a little faster the galaxy s3 is a little faster but we basically have the same settings for each we have our flash brightness focus settings the focus on the lg optimus is less customizable than it is on the sampson okay now I know a lot of people want to know which phone is faster so we're gonna be doing a quadrant test right now to show the speeds of each of these phones now for the sake of the quadrant test we're going to all the other running apps so make sure we do it efficiently as possible and that we don't have anything creating a lag so we'll go to our quadrants standard on each device we'll actually see which one performs a benchmark faster and then we'll see which one has the better scores so here we go each of these are very fast devices and they make it through the tests extremely fast faster than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and you know up to par with the HTC One series looks like they're both on memory and they're both on Io looks like the Samsung Galaxy s3 is behind a little bit already got our LG running at 57 59 frames per second and 60 there so we've got about the same FPS on each device in the LG is this a little bit ahead still got our planets at 61 frames per second on the LG and the Samsung Galaxy s3 does look a little more rich in this application the colors look a little better on the Super AMOLED screen we will send our benchmark results and we got five thousand and nineteen on the lg optimus and we got five thousand six hundred twenty six on the samsung galaxy s3 so it looks like they both beat out the HTC One X but the Samsung Galaxy s3 is the victor now we won by about six hundred points and that is you know somewhat of a sizable margin but they're both very very fast phones is our CPU on the galaxy s3 scored thirteen thousand three hundred ninety five and our CPU on the lg optimus scored twelve thousand six hundred and two those are very big scores these are these phones are just quad-core John few of the other things to keep in mind is that the Samsung Galaxy s3 already has aftermarket accessories it's got uh some batteries out it's got a lot of cases there's already a root method in fact there's some custom roms out for this already stay tuned for those on our Channel but the lg optimus is lacking those as now now both of these come in different colors we've got the pebble blue version of the Samsung Galaxy s3 available and we've got the black version of the lg optimus 4x so stay tuned for some more hardware reviews of these phones some more software overviews and some more head-to-head comparisons including both of these phones so check in next time guys have a good one