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what's up everyone John Renton you're from TechnoBuffalo here this is a video by popular demand I've had a lot of questions being sent in people ask them for a head-to-head comparison between the just-released samsung built Google Nexus S and the also Samsung built Galaxy S in this case we have the Verizon Wireless variant here these samsung fascinate so we're going to put these two head-to-head they're very similar in a lot of respects and see if we can determine what the big differences are and whether or not Android 2.3 makes a difference or whether not you're better off having an older operating system with Samsung's TouchWiz put on top of it so let's go ahead and get started so for those of you want you that maybe are familiar with these two devices just a quick refresher we've got the Nexus S on one side which is running a completely naked skin free version of Android it's the current newest version of Android 2.3 called Gingerbread on the other side we've got the Galaxy S running Android 2.1 with TouchWiz I know some people in the world have had upgrade to 2.2 we have not been in dab with that yet in the US so this test is going to be with Android 2.1 running on it so one of the big OS differences here well one of the cool things about Android is that it's an open-source operating system and as such it can be completely skins and modified by manufacturers and users and that's exactly what Samsung has done so right here you've got some notifications in the pull down menu you can go ahead and automatically select Wi-Fi blue to the GPS in airplane mode without having to futz around with any sort of settings you notice that you've got a four rows of icons at the bottom all the applications are encapsulated you've got a ton of additional widget functionality go ahead and show you real quickly what those are Android widgets and Samsung widgets if a lot here that you can go ahead and add it's a decent amount of functionality it's a lot of visual flash but a visual flash also can take its toll when it comes to memory processing so that we'll talk about in just a little bit so here we've got the naked version of Android 2.3 you notice that we've got a little bit of a dock down at the bottom with new colored icons the icons at the top are now green the battery icon is sort of turned on its side or turn straight up rather versus what we've seen on older versions you've got a new keyboard for for text entry which I'll show you guys certainly one of nice things about Android is that it's open source so you can go ahead and pull in new text entries I don't know who that person is so we'll go ahead and leave their number public up they're gonna go ahead and send out spam tech messages you can see is a new keyboard you can go ahead and use a ton of third party keyboards as well there's a lot of under the hood API differences as well as far as how graphics or process 3d images and that kind of stuff and we'll see sort of what difference that makes if any will we do some speed tests just wanted to give you a real quick overview of these and I've done in-depth videos on Android 2.3 Gingerbread as well as the operating system on the Galaxy S and more particularly the Samsung skin touch woods alright so let's talk about the displays on these two because they are very similar both have four inch diagonal Super AMOLED displays with resolution of 800 by 480 and what Super AMOLED means is that the touch mechanism on the screen is glass is actually built into the glass not sitting right on top there are a few other nuances in there but what that's going to translate to are darker darks richer colors and a lot better visibility in direct sunlight however the downside of that is that you do have a little bit of a bluish kind of great hint on the Super AMOLED screens when you use the phone on its own for a while you don't really notice it but if you look at it next to another display you'll notice that there's a bit of a color tint to it sometimes I find it bothersome but for the most part that this boy is absolutely gorgeous a vibrant and beautiful on the Nexus S however there's one bit of a difference the display is a little bit curved I don't know if you can see that on camera but it does make for a little nicer experience moving your finger over and holding up your head nothing giant up there but is something to take notice when you're comparing the two devices I'm figuring out me which one is best for you from a processor standpoint once again the theme here is identical we've got one gigahertz cortex a8 hummingbird processors which are going to be powering both of these running with 512 megabytes of RAM each cameras again same stuff on the back we've got five megapixel sensors on each in the fascinates case this is the Verizon Wireless version we do have a flash but not all versions of the Galaxy S do have a flash you get in the same five megapixel sensors there's a flash here on the Nexus S if you flip it over here's where we see some differences the Nexus S has a front-facing VGA camera use that for video chatting I can also use that for taking really cool pictures or yourself out at some clubs something to put to keep in mind camera wise the functionality is very very very similar the VGA is added benefit on the front if some that you're looking for and something that you need it's good to have the option now as far as networks and how these are going to go on different carriers the Nexus S is unlocked but right now it only supports t-mobile's 3G bands in the US so if your t-mobile customer you want to use their variants of the galaxy s you need to pick whichever one's going to be best for you if you're not a t-mobile customer if you're not 18 t Verizon Sprint you know you're going to be very limited but you can choose and you may have to pick the galaxy s if a samsung built Android device is really what you are looking for so let me go ahead and run a little bit of speed test here and when I'm done I'll run the quadrant benchmarking test let me go ahead and clear all the memory from each I've put AF memory clearing program there we go right here on the galaxy assets of atom it's more of a task killer I don't recommend using these sort of very regularly but I do want to show that we're starting from as clear memory as we can so we're gonna go ahead and kill all selected apps on Android 2.3 actually do have a task manager built-in to go into menu and go ahead and see manage apps and Samsung does include a task manager on there TouchWiz interface I just use a third-party one we'll go ahead and check out running to let me know what's running and you can see it's a Settings Google services android keyboard and stuff that sort of toys has to be running on there so we've got a clear memory on each let's go ahead and try and run some some similar applications see if we have any speed difference let's try one of my favorites and certainly different applications may have different speeds I can't do a test on everything out there but I do want to show you just some samples so let's start with one of my favorite games Angry Birds in this case it's Angry Birds Seasons and I will try really hard push you at the same time that's more difficult than you might expect alright so I hit in both they got that Rovio's screen and exactly the same to amazes almost identical so far as far as speed goes actually who's ready to play first on the galaxy s over the Nexus S so here we go Android 2.3 did not win Samsung's TouchWiz interface actually I'll watch things a bit faster go ahead and close these the music can be a bit on the annoying side alright so let's go ahead and try some browser speed and see if you've any difference in speed here as well so I'll go ahead and open up the browser I should mention that these are relatively clean installs of both operating systems all right so we've got a little TechnoBuffalo on each and do a simple refresh and since the swype keyboard is loaded up here so what TechnoBuffalo these are sites that have been loaded before on each of these devices so considered a test of websites that you visit on a regular basis I'll go ahead and run this test and I'll give you my general impressions on speed you can see that Flash content is loading on both you got flash flashlight support on the Galaxy S and you have flash 10.1 support here on the Nexus S let's go ahead and refresh both these go ahead and do this and we'll hit go at least try and hit go at exactly the same time hit it there hit it there let's see if we have any speed difference and these are running on both the same Wi-Fi networks so again it looks like we are almost head-to-head maybe the Nexus has a little bit of an edge and it did finished just a hair sooner so in using both these advices and noticing speed I will say that 3d gaming games that use a lot of 3d stuff things like Need for Speed or if you want to you to Google Earth is noticeably zippier on the Nexus S now is that little bit of speed increase which we didn't even see in these tests a reason to go out and want to ditch your new Galaxy S and pick up a Nexus S because it's a new phone on the block most definitely not the galaxy s on its own is a really capable phone very quick and very robust and you may like Samsung's TouchWiz interface personally I don't like the encapsulated icons that you get in the menu system like I showed you guys in the beginning I'll go ahead and show you one more time so all these icons are encapsulated I prefer the native Android look of 2.3 which is going to be available on the Nexus S however that's just personal preference both devices are extremely well capable and very similarly specs if I have to pick a winner I would pick the Nexus S because there's a little bit of speed increase you've got that front VGA camera and I prefer sort of native Android in its unskilled miss over Samsung's TouchWiz but TouchWiz does add some functionality so really this is going to be a personal preference I was picking one again I would pick the Nexus S but it would be very close I've used the Galaxy S as my daily phone I was absolutely thrilled with it and I think you will be as well so hopefully this cleared things up for you guys and gave you a head-to-head comparison of each phones I am John Rhett endorsing TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out the site for all your tech news for exclusive content check me out of Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers all those links are down in the what have you and I'll see you in the next video