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with the Samsung Galaxy s4 on the market a lot of people are going to be asking themselves some interesting questions like should I sell my note too and getting us four or which should I buy the note 2 or the s4 the answer to either of those questions may be more interesting than you think hey everybody I'm Chris look now there are a lot of factors that might help you decide which is the better phone for you but first let's take a look at the specs I'll come right out and say it the galaxy s4 wins hands down when it comes to specs it's not that the note 2 has low end or even mid-range specs when it comes to what's around it's just that the s4 has upgraded Hardware all around it doesn't matter which version of the s4 you get the note 2's Exynos processor is slower and even where the specs do match up the s4 never gets the short end of the stick looking at the s4 in the note 2 side-by-side they look well pretty much the same except one is bigger yeah there are minor differences mainly size and camera placement but stack them together and even the button layout is the same because the design for both phones is so similar this all comes down to personal preferences so with that in mind I'm calling this one a tie taking a look at the display you have two options bigger or better pick one because you can't have both the s4 clearly has the sharper display and the adaptive display feature like it or not is nice to have around as an option on the other hand there are plenty of people who prefer a larger screen even if it doesn't have the best resolution available that said I've got to give this one to the s4 despite the s4 having better specs I expected this category to be fairly close I had already seen the benchmarks compared before so I wasn't surprised to see the s4 get an average and to to score of around 24,000 compared to the note two's a verge of around 17,500 that said I actually thought the note tube might win when it came to Epic Citadel because of its lower res screen instead the s4 got an average frame rate of around 58 frames per second to the note twos average of around 45 the galaxy s4 runs Android 4.2.2 while the Galaxy Note 2 runs 4.1.2 at least at the time of this writing so if you want the newest version of Android right now and don't already own either phone well you know what to do when it comes to other software it's a close call the s4 has a lot more features but whether you'll use them or not is a different question the note 2 has the S Pen and related apps which may or may not be important to you because of the sheer number of new features the s4 gets a slight win in this category but it is a very close call while neither phone has a bad camera I've got to give the nod here to the s4 not only does it have a higher megapixel count and I know that's not everything but it also seems to have better color reproduction generally more rich images and a whole lot of extra features to boot not to mention all those other more gimmicky features that other people may not use but they're still nice to have if you want to use them before I started testing I honestly figured that this category would be a lock for the note 2 after all it's a bigger battery powering less demanding hardware what I found instead is that the note 2 in the s4 are surprisingly close when it comes to battery life I had both devices fully charged when I began testing and benchmarking and after about 6 and a half hours the note 2 held the lead but only barely now at the end of the day the difference did show a little more but either of these devices should offer good battery life that said the note 2 does have enough of an edge here to win this round easily basically for a lot of people the Galaxy s4 is the winner here if you want a larger display larger battery or S Pen functionality then you should go for the note 2 otherwise go for the s4 here's the thing a lot of you might be yelling your screen right now and that's fine either by the phone you want or be happy with the one you have that my friends is up to you if you're hungry for more details we have a written companion to this video at Android authority comm just hit up the link in the description now we not only have new videos going up all the time but we also have stuff you may want to see like our s4 review or our note 2 review so if you want to make sure you're caught up in the loop make sure to subscribe to our Channel I'm Chris work for Android authority and as always thank you for watching