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hey guys john r Ettinger from TechnoBuffalo here there are a lot of fantastic smartphones either available now are coming out in the near future but to have probably the most impressive that are available today are the iPhone 3GS and the Google Nexus One we're going to put these two but hemas head-to-head in a battery of tests discussing browser and half speed text entry customization and scrolling navigation apps maps operating system and some overall specifications and you guys can determine which phone is best for you so before we get started with all of the features and functions let me go over some of the general specifications of the devices because they do vary quite a bit the iPhones got a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen compared to the 3.7 inch screen on the Nexus One the iPhones got a resolution of 320 by 480 and the Nexus One has a resolution of 480 by 800 so a big difference there the iPhones processor is 600 megahertz whereas a processor on the Nexus One is 1 gigahertz which is quite a bit faster the iPhone can come in either 16 or 32 gig specifications whereas the Nexus One comes with a 4 gigabyte of expandable memory going up to potentially 32 gigs 5 hours of battery life talktime on the iPhone compared to 7 on the Nexus One 300 is standby time on the iPhone compared to 250 on the Nexus One 3 megapixel camera on the iPhone 5 megapixel camera on the Nexus One so right off the bat Nexus One has an edge in almost all specs that we've gone over thus far both have Wi-Fi GPS voice commands they both have app stores the itunes app catalog has about a 93 thousand applications or a bit more now and the Android Marketplace has about 20,000 so enough of the stuff that you can't see let's start with the stuff that you can I use the browser on a daily basis probably the most important feature that I need in a smartphone we're going to compare browsers on both of these devices the iPhone of course is running on e TNT's network whereas the Nexus One is unlocked it can be run on either 18 - your t-mobile but if you want 3G speeds that will only be t-mobile so to take the networks out of it that's going to vary depending on where you are in your network speed we're running on the same Wi-Fi network here so it should be a relatively fair comparison to connect to the same network we're going to low TechnoBuffalo commas like that's been put on both these devices before so they'll simulate the speed of a website that you visit on a pretty regular basis let's go ahead and get this started well queue up TechnoBuffalo on each got it ready to go here let's get it ready to go on the Nexus One okay see if we can hit go at the same time and we should be off to the races so again these are on the same Wi-Fi network so it's like the Nexus One has a pretty early lead here it's almost done the iPhone is catching up the Nexus One is done and the iPhone 3GS is still going I phone still loaded and now it's done certainly the Nexus One has an edge in speed and I will tell you that this is not a unique I've seen the Nexus One have an edge in all the web pages that I've tested going head-to-head so let's check out scrolling and navigation and see how things work here scrolling on the iPhone is very smooth you very rarely get this sort of box pattern at the end the processor can keep up with where you want to go scrolling on the Nexus One is much the same experience relatively quick although I did find that the physics engine on the iPhone seemed to be a little bit better a little more smooth on the Nexus One it seems to be a little bit choppy but certainly not bad I have it using an iPhone through the first came out so admittedly I'm used to the multi-touch capabilities the pinch and zoom are really essential for me the Nexus One does not have that it has it's zoom functionality there be a double tap which of course the iPhone supports as well or you can zoom in by the plus and minus right there now for someone like me is used to the iPhone I missed a pinch and zoom if you're an Android user you've never been used to it you're not going to miss the features so it's really going to come down to personal preference what you prefer personally I like the pigeon zoom but I could probably get used to the lack of it just because of the big screen and the you're browsing room on the nexus one it's a very nice browsing experience I'll definitely tell you that and it's probably as close to the iPhone browsing experience as I've seen so definitely Google did a fantastic job with the browser so let's talk about text entry very important for really most of things that you do as far as email and text messaging okay so let's go ahead and check out the keyboards on each we'll start with a keyboard on the iPhone go ahead and open up the notes application here and we'll see how things work so typing on the iPhone is done really in one way via its on-screen keyboard and you can type it either in landscape or portrait so you've got portrait here rotate it over and you've got landscape but I want to preface this and all in all candor let you know that I am an iPhone user so I am probably more used to the iPhone keyboard but be able to see the speed and the typing ability on each so check out the keyboard here on the Nexus while I'm going to compose a new message and there it is and of course you've got a landscape keyboard as well let's go ahead and talk about the portrait keys first I'll do a quick test as to how this works and I'll type this is a test and we can see how it comes out I can see the autocorrect and the overall speed so this is a test pretty accurate let's try the same thing on the Nexus One this moose ate eat so not quite as accurate but again I'm used more little more used to the iPhone keyboard let's turn this thing off to the side and see how it works now I'm trying to say anything again this is a test so a little more accurate this is a test it didn't quite correct it but it wasn't bad now we're going to compare out-of-the-box functionality as I demonstrate in a previous video the Nexus 1 also has speech-to-text meaning I can tap that little icon right there looks like a microphone say the words I want and the text automatically show up there the iPhone has abstract out of the box does not do it so let's try landscape keyboard on the iPhone so this is a test I did spell something wrong but Otto corrected it so at the end of the day I think it's going to come down to personal preference I'm probably more accurate on the iPhone again because I'm used to it but I can certainly see myself becoming as accurate on the Nexus one the larger screen space definitely lends itself as well to a bigger typing room I do prefer the autocorrect on the iPhone but the system on Android is quite good as well so again that's going to be down to which one you're used to and prefer let's go ahead and move on to our tests with customization and scrolling we'll start with customization on the iPhone this will be very short because there's not much you can do out of the box with the iPhone a lot of people talk about jailbreaking and other things you can do we're going to talk about just the stock iPhone customization ability so the customization is pretty much limited to moving this these rows of icons I can move them anywhere I like and I can manage them you know pretty simple Avon add elite 1h co-ed hit the X and that's really the extent of the customization that I can do on the iPhone is move the icons to where they suit me best on the Nexus One for example there's a lot more customization options that are available let me show you what those are so for example let's talk about home screens I've got several home screens that I can use a manipulate think I have several home screens of apps on the iPhone however these are not dependent on applications being there I've got five home screens that I can choose from you can see this one here doesn't have anything on it so we'll start looking at this one if I hold my finger down I've got a ton of options that I can pick so I'll make this phone my own I can pick application shortcuts I can pick a variety of widgets folders that I want to go through right Nick wallpapers both live wallpapers like you're seeing here the ones that move around or static images so I can definitely have much more customization on the Android operating system much more this is one's not even close to what I can do I can make this device really my own sort of keeping pace and keeping things fair I can also move the icons around just like I could on the iPhone on the iPhone the applications are stored just on your desktop by a series of icons here on the Nexus One they're stored in this folder right here which is a little bit new gone is the drawer that slides up in have a pretty cool 3d looking array of applications you can move these really anywhere you like when it comes to customization this is a no-brainer Android clearly comes out on top and it gives you much more ability to sort of do what you what you'd like a little bit more let's go ahead and talk about navigation now on both devices navigation on the iPhone is an exclusive just to your finger really the only hard buttons that you use are the home button the lock and the volume on the side is really not much else but for navigation you're really only using your finger and it works it very well it's smooth its crisp and you really know where things are navigation on the droid is a little bit different of course you are finger is still your main point of contact with the phone you can navigate very smoothly and scroll through all your screens since you have a lot of home screens a lot of customization options if I wanted to go from the screen all the way to the left the one all the way on the right you know could take some time so as far as navigation goes they've added a new feature into Android 2.1 if I hold down little dots in the bottom left or right corner I get sort of a webOS car looking interface that shows me to my home screens and I can jump very quickly to where I want to go so certainly are a lot more navigation shortcuts that you get with the Android operating system on the iPhone if I want to jump back to the home screen I can just hit the button once and it will jump me back and I also have a universal search functionality I can double tap the home button if I want to be brought into my calls I can set a shortcut for that but that's really the extent of it as far as navigation here I can again use my finger or I can also use the built-in scroll ball which I don't find terribly useful to be honest one of the features that I really do want to talk about is email and text editing that's something that I do quite a bit so let me show you what that looks like here we'll go back to the note that we made earlier now if I want to edit it so right there it says this is a test if I want to take out the is it's quite easy on the iPhone I take my finger I hold it down get that little magnifying glass drag it where I want and I can go ahead and do what I like of it I can delete it I can edit it or I can copy or paste it pretty easy let me show you how this works on the Nexus 1 let me go back to the messaging application if I want to get rid of that s right there I can tap it and try and get close but it's got a fat finger on a little screen I can use the scroll ball to go to where I want but it's not quite as accurate as a that magnifying glass and knowing exactly where you want to go something a little more inaccurate on the iPhone or on the next one something that I definitely wanted to for you to keep in mind and be aware of as you gotta ponder your purchase so let's talk about applications apps are a huge deal for the iPhone and Android and they both got thousands and thousands of choices you guys have probably seen the apps Taurani I thought we show you what that looks like there are right now well over 93,000 and leave this close to a hundred thousand given applications right now and the way the applications to we're set up is pretty simple you can view by new what's hot or genius features check out by categories top 25 and there are a ton of applications ranging from free to very expensive and they certainly add a lot of additional functionality to the phone now when it comes to app stores there's really nothing better than the iPhone hi my opinion but Android Market is a very close second offering many many more free applications let's take a look at Android Marketplace you can see what that looks like you guys kind of right there Market you've got a very nice looking interface and you can view this by apps games or all your downloads let's go ahead and hit apps and you can view it by all these different categories and downloading is very quick and very smooth you notice that scrolling is really fast on the Snapdragon processor let's take a look at how fast applications load and launch speaking of processor so the iPhone 3GS certainly no speeds slouch and prior to the Nexus One launching is probably one of the quicker phones out there let's take a look at how fast standard applications open things that you might use on a regular basis let's take a look at calendar so go ahead and open up the calendar functionality on each and we'll see how quickly they both load Nexus One loaded a little bit quicker but not much and bad and one thing that I would be remiss to not discuss when I'm talking about both platforms is multitasking Android can handle multitasking out of the box and look quite well the iPhone certainly is not known for its multitasking capabilities let's next take a look at Matt not quickly that loads now what take is very nicely into the map section of our comparison we've got Google Maps on each different icons but the same application go ahead bunch of both the same time so load it up a bit quicker on the Nexus One but not that much certainly nothing you're going to notice but overall the speed is a little bit faster on the Nexus One certainly can take advantage of multi-touch on the iPhone and as far as zooming you have to use the plus or minus magnifying glasses as far as Google Maps goes you get the same functionality right out of the box however there's additional functionality that's built into the Nexus One let me show you what that looks like you get Google Maps Navigation now get free turn-by-turn navigation you can see sometimes I struggle with these buttons across the bottom that are touch sensitive that don't always respond as well as I would like let me go and open on that up and right now the box I get turn-by-turn navigation I've demonstrated in previous videos worked it very well it'll say left turn on wherever you want to go and it's free on the iPhone you have to either pay for an application or pay for a subscription certainly the edge clearly goes to the Nexus One when it comes to mapping okay so let's talk about the OS overall and we'll sort of wrap this up there's a ton of features we can cover but interest of brevity we just can't go over everything so as far as the u.s. is concerned I think the operating system on the iPhone is very very elegant I've been using the iPhones of the first came out and it will just works certainly the functionality that you might get out of Nexus One is not there as far as customization and the navigation options really limited to just your fingers you can use the scroll ball on the Nexus One and the Android operating system as a whole it's this again is going to connect your personal preference up personally I think the iPhone operand system has gotten a bit stale since it first launched other than the addition of the App Store and additional icons that you have now it really hasn't changed that much since the first iPhone launched a couple years ago so if we get really going to come down to personal preference both these phones offer of fantastic features and a lot of really great customization options and a lot of great usability it's going to condense with user prefers from a size standpoint we'll go and show you these one more times you can sort of do a comparison there's been want to talk about the Nexus One being thinner than pencil I don't have a number two I do have pretty a standard mechanical pencil you can get a sense of thickness and size and it definitely does cover up the Nexus One overall I've been really impressed with the quality of the Nexus One and the quality of the iPhone with feras picking which one to choose it's going to come down to which one again you like more if you get 3G service with timo 118 T I recommend trying to get your hands on the next one to play with if customization is more important for you the Android is going to be a great way to go if you're looking for maybe more apps then the iPhone is gonna be a great way to go if you're a Mac user and you like to keep things within sort of the Apple walled garden and all your photos are an iPhone or music isn't iTunes you know it's going to be a sort of a pretty easy decision to make however if you're a little bit more open and you've got mp3s in different places and you don't use iTunes or you know take care about iTunes this is going to be a great way to go for the Nexus One a lot of other things we can talk about we may discuss them in upcoming videos camera quality and video and video playback and music downloads cuz both have their own download stores but for this version we just focused on the browser text entry customization scrolling navigation apps maps and operating system hope you guys enjoyed it I hope to shed a little bit of light on make decision easy for you when it comes down to which phone you want to choose the last thing I want to mention is pricing pricing on the iPhone 3GS it's going to range depending on whether you're on contract or not anywhere from $1.99 to $5.99 and the same thing for the next one the Ronnie was cheap as 179 or it expensive as 530 so hope you guys enjoy them John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo for all of you our Nexus One and iPhone needs be sure to check out TechnoBuffalo com we're going to a ton of coverage coming up I hope you guys enjoy for exclusive content you can check us out on Twitter twitter.com slash TechnoBuffalo or check in the Edit Twitter twitter.com John for Lakers John Rhett injure and I'll see in the next video bye-bye