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what's going on folks this is Clayton over at android authority dot-com today i'm bringing you a head-to-head comparison of the Samsung Galaxy s3 versus the HTC EVO 4G LTE now before we get into any comparison just want to say that this HTC EVO 4G LTE of course is the predecessor to Sprint's original HTC EVO 4G this one has the long term evolution but it's a huge step up from the original Sprint version this is the version by the way with all of our hardware or kickstand and you can see that they've made it bigger they've built it better so it's got the same scheme though and it's a really nice phone ok so getting down to these two phones our Samsung Galaxy s3 is the GTI 9300 now that's the International unlocked version the GSM and our HTC evo 4G LTE is running on Sprint's 4G LTE network as you can see Sprint logo meaning it will have some bloatware okay so the HTC EVO 4G LTE has a 4.7 inch HD Super LCD screen with Corning's Gorilla Glass 1 then our Samsung Galaxy s3 has a four point eight inch Super AMOLED display and both of these have 1280 by 720 p resolution the HTC EVO 4G LTE has 312 pixels per inch where the Samsung Galaxy s3 has 306 PPI but up being a tiny bit bigger display of course we're probably going to see the smaller pixel density on the galaxy s3 now looking over the actual build of both of these phones you can see we have the white version of our samsung galaxy s3 and we have the black and red scheme version only available color for the Evo 4G LTE now anyways just shut these two off so we can go over that the thickness of these phones are just about the exact same they weigh you know just about the exact same in the palm of my hand they both feel really solid and heavy they're both built very nice now of course on the back of the HTC EVO 4G we have some actual metal accents going around the edges and of course our kickstand to use for watching media and whatnot but the accents on the samsung galaxy 3 s3 excuse me are not actual metal though anyways popping off anything removable from these two phones we've got our top that pops off of our Evo 4G LTE and nothing else is removable but we do have our microSD expansion slot right here on the Evo 4G pop our Tector back on here we'll just have to do it from the bottom excuse me and then on the back of the samsung galaxy s3 of course you peel it off and we've got our microSD slot and our SIM card slot both of these are enabled with NFC with the stock batteries ok so on the front of these two devices you see we have our three haptic buttons down here we have our recent window our home and our back button whereas on the samsung galaxy s3 we have our back our home and our menu button so looking at the two devices lock screens we can see that we can easily access apps without unlocking the phone on the HTC EVO 4G we can access our phone mail messages in camera and on the galaxy s3 we can access our phone our chat on our web browser and our camera on the HTC EVO 4G you're going to want to grab a nap and we can move it into the circle you can see the silhouette of it to open it and on the samsung galaxy s3 we grab a app and swipe up in any ways to unlock each of these phones you just grab the circle on the Evo 4G LTE bring it up anywhere and it unlocks and on the galaxy s3 we swipe to unlock go home so you can see both of the home screens are very different or running different native widgets being that we have the sense 4.0 overlay on the HTC EVO 4G LTE and we have the TouchWiz 4 on the Samsung Galaxy s3 now both of these are skins or manufacturer overlays as you may call them that run on top of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system that each of these phones also possesses now anyways we can go right into our app drawer let's see it's definitely set out a little differently it's laid out um anyways on the galaxy s3 we can scroll through our apps we do have the infinite scrolling with only two tabs being the apps and the widgets now in HTC Sense that's a little different we can scroll but it's not infinite and we are categorized with our all our frequently used apps and our downloaded apps now right from each of the docs and the app drawers here we can access our settings by pressing the menu here and we will press our menu here on the galaxy s3 that's where we have the option to sort share manage apps edit tabs here we can access the Play Store we can edit you can uninstall we can go to our downloaded applications like that and we can go home on each anyways if you notice the native widget for weather on the galaxy s3 we have right here we've got our time and our weather and then of course we have HCC's classic flip clock here pulling down the status bar on each phone you can see we have some toggles on the galaxy s3 that aren't available on the HTC EVO 4G can go through and select our Wi-Fi our GPS screen rotation stuff like that and of course we have our notifications we can access our settings easily from each of the status bars where they have all of the same settings basically but their skins differently of course due to the sense TouchWiz differences now we can access our airplane mode Wi-Fi Bluetooth they each have the data usage under more settings for each of these phones we can enable our NFC and our Android Beam as well as the S beam on the galaxy s3 we have our personalization options on the HTC EVO 4G LTE now under that settings menu we can change the scene where we have our sprint options HTC social work play and travel that is kept it on the sprint we have our skin or wallpaper of default lockscreen style now this isn't the only way you can access these options but this is just a nice way of doing so right from the settings menu go back we have our sound options or display options the one thing I dislike about the Galaxy s3 is that the display option when you go to the brightness it is not a master brightness as it is on the HTC EVO 4G you have to choose basically in app brightness on the galaxy s3 Benes we've got our our wallpaper LED indicator we've got our power saving feature on each of these of course we have our developer options being that they're both Ice Cream Sandwich devices language and keyboard storage app managers we each have gestures on here we can go to our gestures there it's under the emotion settings on the galaxy s3 we have our shake to update we can palm swipe to screencap here's our brightness options for our evo 4G LTE we have our HTC gestures naval three finger output 2 with more gestures with more fingers because we have our sound options the HTC EVO 4G does come with Beats Audio those can be experienced by plugging in a set of headphones or some speakers they don't work through the actual external speaker the hardware of the phone we can go to the about device on each that's a little more difficult to navigate to the things we want on the HTC but that's us because of the sense we will want to go to our firmware information software information that is see we're running android 4.0.3 with our HTC Sense version 4.0 now on the galaxy s3 we have 4.0.4 and we have the TouchWiz version 4.0 now the speed of these phones is going to be around the exact same but we have our international version of the galaxy s3 which features a 1.4 quad-core processor the Exiles chipset and then our evo 4G LTE which is running the Snapdragon s4 now the performance is going to be very similar because a lot of the US variants in fact all of them for the Samsung Galaxy s3 are going to be running the same Snapdragon s4 processor so we're gonna see power bands about the exact same but as far as the two phones as they are being the international version against the HTC we will just do a quadrant test now before I do the quadrant test I'm just gonna kill all of our recent apps we press the recent apps button on HTC we have a nice Sense interface and then we hold the home button on the galaxy s3 where we can swipe to remove or we can easily just remove all now we'll just have to shoot them up on the Evo 4G LTE here which is sort of a tedious process I'd give that hands down to the galaxy s3 anyways we'll just run our quadrant tests it looks like I'd already done one on there I'll just put them head-to-head run a full benchmark set them here see which one will actually finish faster as we see in our benchmark scores there's not that much of a difference we got fifty-five hundred and sixty-one on the galaxy s3 and we got five thousand 58 on the HTC EVO 4G LTE that's not a huge difference for two extra cores in the samsung galaxy s3 and the 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon did really well in the HTC EVO now mind you the u.s. variant and of the u.s. very end of the galaxy s3 will have the same processor but it will also have two gigabytes of RAM as opposed to the one gigabyte included in the HTC EVO 4G anyways let's test out some of the other hardware we've got great cameras on each of these let's test out our eight megapixel rear camera on each we had our little motion and gestures just gleamer right there on the samsung galaxy s3 but right away you can see that we just are tracking our whiteboard here the settings for each camera are located up in the top left on the galaxy s3 just there on the top for the Evo 4G LTE now on the Evo 4G LTE this is where we're going to choose whether or not we want to use our main camera or our front camera you can choose our self timer our image resolution we've got on the highest set there for the 8 megapixel and choose full HD video quality review duration got our white balance we've got a continuous shooting mode here's our camera options and we have our video options the resolution there by sixteen by nine days we've got our touch to focus here on the galaxy s3 we have our Edit shortcuts choose our self portrait our flash and choose our shooting mode where we have the single shot the burst shot HDR panorama stuff like that got our scene mode or timer a resolution on here as well our white balance the outdoor visibility anti-shake Auto contrast reset now what's cool about the HTC EVO 4G LTE is that you can either right off the bat choose to record a video or take a picture you took a picture there boom boom boom but on the galaxy s3 we'll have to go left and it will take a second to actually go into the recording mode but I'm recording a video on each is fairly easy of course we can just tap the screen to focus when recording a video mom each do have our auto focus enabled go back we save the video we can access our gallery just in the bottom left of each of these our front-facing camera on the HTC EVO 4G LTE is a 1.3 megapixel and our front-facing camera on the samsung galaxy s3 is a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera they both work very well ok so we're on the Google homepage here to compare the browser's on each of these phones now anyways the HTC and the galaxy s3 aren't going to have that much difference it's got the same Android 4.0 Browser framework we just have a different skin over it and as we access our menu here on the HTC we can request a desktop site enable Flash Player all that good stuff have our downloads tab our history tab do the same by pressing the menu here add a new window we can add bookmark we can use our desktop view we have to change our brightness and colors here because there is no master brightness we'll go into the settings of each of the web browsers where we have the bandwidth management advanced accessibility all the same stuff browsers don't tend to very much you can go to our labs we have our quick controls on each go back now in Google we can bring your fingers in from the left access our quick controls of course we have our ad at a bar tab manager at a new webpage bookmarks and then our settings once again I like to turn labs off it's not a functionality I use often but anyways you know the similarities between these two phones are actually pretty close you know especially with the u.s. variant of the Samsung Galaxy s3 it's going to come down to whether or not you actually want the quad-core the dual-core version with the two gigabytes of RAM either phone will stand up to the HTC EVO 4G LTE these phones knock heads pretty well just comes down to if you rather want a Samsung device or an HTC device both built very well remember you gonna be able to root the HTC get some of that bloatware off there and of course you can do the same for this galaxy s3 you'll run a different launcher if you don't like the TouchWiz or the Sense UI but basically these are two really good phones and they compare really well so I suggest checking them out if you're in the market for a higher-end smartphone that's modern and that will suit your needs anyways guys I want you to stay tuned to Android authority comm we've got a heck of a lot more where this is coming from