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what's up everyone John retinue from techno buffoon other smartphone Smackdown this time we've got a carrier war we've got a team cheese iPhone for squaring up against Verizon's droid 2 we're gonna put these two head-to-head in a grueling nine round test and declare a winner let's get started so we are going to put these two head-to-head in a nine round series of tests and grounds are going to include cult quality battery browser speed signal text entry screen specs and a new category called value obviously there's a lot more we could cover but the interest of brevity we're going to eliminate to just those nine rounds so let's jump right in let's talk about call quality these are cell phones and no matter what else they do they don't make the phone calls they're not going to work for you what call quality on each was very strong on the iPhone 4 I had no white noise or popping on my end or the collars other end in the same thing on the jury to very crisp very clear however on a 10 called test driving in different areas I had to drop calls on the iPhone 4 compared to a 1 dropped call on the jury to its pre representative of the drop college dude nothing about the antennas I have met any antenna issues really with the iPhone 4 since I had it covered and protected but I have noticed that the Droid 2 does drop about 10% less phone calls than the iPhone 4 does so because of that round one call quality is going to the Droid 2 now these phones obviously do a lot of things email texts web browsing it's going to take a lot of battery life so these things need to be able to last at least a full day so you can get to your charger so battery wise the iPhone 4 is gonna give you 14 hours to talktime and 300 hours of standby and the Droid 2 has been evening 9.5 byte average of talktime and 315 hours of standby that's just what Motorola and Apple claimed real-world usage is actually very different I'm a very heavy you can imagine a very heavy smartphone user I'm on the phone for a few hours a day I'm doing a ton of browsing and I always have push email on getting a emails with the iPhone 4 on heavy usage I generally have around 40% of battery left for the end of the day with the Droid 2 is around 20 to 10 percent value at the end of the day so real-world usage I'm getting much better battery life out of the iPhone 4 using them both in the same way at the same times so battery life is going to go to the iPhone 4 next let's talk about the browser I mentioned I use the browser quite a bit on my phones this is something where the iPhone used to have a very clear edge from Android first launched Android didn't have multi-touch it really didn't have the best browsing experience though it was decent well Android once it got to the twos really took care of that so 2.0 2.1 2.2 and the rest really brought the Android Browser up to par with what you can expect on the iPhone 4 let me go ahead and jump in and show you what the browser's look like on each well you probably are familiar with both of them so you got TechnoBuffalo you're queued up on both it's very smooth browsing on the iPhone 4 really one of the smoothest browsing Sprint's that I've seen I can scroll without really experiencing any sort of checkerboard pattern the multi-touch is really pretty smooth no delay or lag at all the iPhone does support html5 but does not support any type of Flash content now that's really been a problem for me but I understand that I am not everyone out there a lot of people rely on Flash content for their phones and the iPhone is not going to deliver that febrile enjoy to maybe more what you're looking for notice that the scrolling experience is not nearly as smooth as is on the iPhone 4 if you go back and forth you can see that it's a little bit choppier here on the Droid 2 and the mochi touch as well is a little bit choppy on the joy too but it does work and it does work actually pretty well you can double tap to resize and those sort of things that we're used to with browsing however the addition of flash is really what gives Dubrow you're on the joy to this watch 10.1 a little bit of an edge those that follow my channel you know I just got him very recently and I wanted to view my wedding pictures and show them to my family online well site that they were on I was unfortunately a flash-based site and I couldn't show it to them on my iPhone but I had to draw it to me that I was testing I was able to show nice and easily so I could live with the less smooth scrolling be able to view the Internet as was intended and be able to have full flash support so Ralph the rig is going to swing back the way of the Droid 2 and then take this round so next let's talk very quickly about speed and we'll talk about processor and such when we get to the specs round but speed is very important as well and I want to demonstrate speed actually on the browser let me go and make sure he is close on each so we're getting a apples to Android comparison here so I've got a app killer go ahead and kill everything so everything is now killed on the Droid 2 let me go ahead and do the same thing here we'll go ahead just if the browser opens that's what we're going to be working with so open the browser here I'll go ahead open the browser here as well and we're gonna do a simple on page refresh a TechnoBuffalo which is pretty image have either some videos embedded in there a pretty representative I think of a typical web browsing experience now again in just a brevity or nearly out test three or four different webpages once the test is done I'll give you sort of my experiences about what it's doing when I tested other websites it's going to go ahead and refresh TechnoBuffalo go ahead and open it up here do the same thing here on the droid to go and hit go on both alright and we are off hit them both at the same time and we'll see which one is going to come out on top these are both connect to the same Wi-Fi network so you should have pretty similar speeds please it's a fair test and it looks like the Droid 2 finished just a second before the iPhone 4 in testing many other websites I found the iPhone 4 it generally finishes about 1 to 2 seconds earlier then the Droid 2 does but fro intensive purposes let's go ahead and load one more website on each let's go ahead and try ESPN these are sites that have been loaded on both before they'll be representative of sites you visit on a regular basis go and try ESPN it should probably pull up the mobile page I would assume and there's ESPN so we'll go ahead and load up both of these and we'll see which one comes out on top so buckle up the mobile page the iPhone 4 in just a second before but there's not much you have the mobile page let's go and load up the real ESPN which is extremely image and text heaviness I'll go ahead and select it down there and I'll select it down here and I'll hit open at the same time open and open I will let both of those go and we'll see which one is faster iPhone 4 showing the content a little bit earlier like the Droid 2 caught up pretty quickly it's now showing a bit more content iPhone 4 is almost done so is it dry - and the joy - finished just a second before the iPhone 4 so it comes to browsing despite these tests live to be very even droid 2 than we're taking a bit of an edge on these tests and earlier tests it was the iPhone 4 so browser to browser relatively close you're gonna get a pretty good experience on each so go ahead and close out of this and let's talk about speed of the operates assuming speed of the devices as a whole I've tested a lot of Android devices and a lot of Snapdragon Android devices and I found the processor that this is running we'll talk about this more in the specs at TI OMAP clocked in about a gigahertz to be a bit laggy and really just laggy on the joy - it's much quicker on something like the Droid X for example when I want to unlock the screen it's a bit slow takes a second to sort of react to my finger and then even a second later you get that haptic feedback when I go ahead and launch things up in the application tray doesn't launch them quickly as I've seen on other Android devices they're just a bit disappointing they go and open a calendar it seemed to be a bit of a delay just not as snappy as other devices I've seen on the iPhone for example I think things are loading very quickly and it's optimized just for the processor I know it's probably gonna be a bit of feedback about this round and whether or not it was this bias or not but I can't show you everything that I've done with both devices here at inter skin of just brevity but using the phone's speeds to speed wise the iPhone 4 just feels a bit snappier so speed is going to the iPhone 4 so this is sort of a new test as well we're gonna talk about signal strength I took a few 18t phones I took a few varieties of phones and I brought it back to the same area to see how the radios are going to react with the iPhone 4 so in Apple's case or any icons case we use this some captivate and AT&T Palm Pre one the variety side we used a Droid X in comparison with the Droid 2 as well as a Verizon Palm Pre and I was actually very very very impressed to the signal strength on the drawer to Motorola putting a fantastic radio actually where I was getting maybe three bars of e video grab a service the Droid 2 was pulling in four bars the iPhone 4 was not quite as strong so many other AT&T device that I tested even when I went into sort of some debugging and testing mode actually see the number the radio wasn't quite what I would expect from a high-end phone so signal strength is you're in a friend area you're gonna be doing very well with the Droid 2 if you're on AT&T the iPhone might not be the best way to go so the signal strength I think that's really important is going to go to the Droid 2 alright next let's talk about text entry sort of very different stories for each text entry on the iPhone is really something you've seen probably quite a bit I'm gonna go and open up a new message here and you've got a portrait keyboard and a landscape keyboard and it's got a pretty decent spellcheck and auto correction feature and it works very well I really enjoyed using the iPhone 4s on-screen keyboard let's go ahead and jump in and look at the keyboard on the droid 2 and you've seen what this looks like on the iPhone do a quick demonstration actually to show you a little bit about what things look like so I'm gonna open up a new note I'll go ahead and type but you can see the keyboard sort of responds well it's multi-touch you can move your letters around as you type it's very quick you guys have seen be test is probably on multiple devices all right go ahead and jump into the Droid 2 and open up a new text message and it will see sort of what this one looks like so you have quite a few ways to input text here on the joy - I've got the same thing ways you have on the iPhone 4 you've got a landscape or a sorry a portrait or a landscape keyboard right there which will come up you go ahead and type now I am a big fan of the Android on-screen keyboard especially Motorola's take on it on the Droid X I'm not the biggest fan of it actually on the Droid 2 it seems a little bit cramped on the 3.7 inch screen when typing it works mostly the same way we saw on the iPhone 4 you go ahead and type now one thing that I really like about Android is that you actually have the voice to text see that little microphone right there I could go ahead and tap that and I can tap that and I can say what I wanted all really with a great degree of accuracy type it right and for me which is very very nice now the Droid 2 also has another way to input text it's got a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard almost has a full layer on top and each key sort of bubble out a little bit I was not the biggest fan of the keyboard on the droid 1 and that's sort of true here with the Droid 2 I don't find be the very easiest full QWERTY keyboard to type on so if you need to have a full QWERTY keyboard try the Droid 2 first so in the keyboard round there are just many many many more waist input text here on Android you don't have to use the on-screen keyboard you can use the physical keyboard if you want you can use the on-screen keyboard if use the voice of text there are so many options to find one way that's going to work best for you so the text entry route it's got to go to the Droid 2 to go ahead and close out of this and now let's talk about screens since both of these rely primarily on their screens to be very important that you've got a nice screen to look at it's going to show your images show your text or your videos very nicely the screen on the iPhone 4 is 3.5 inches with a resolution of 640 by 960 and of course it's too passive and multi-touch the Droid 2 is a little bit bigger at 3.7 inches but a lower resolution of 480 by 854 and it's definitely capacitive and multi-touch as well the screens are really really really very important to me and there's a screen that this cannot be beat as on the iPhone 4 it just looks absolutely gorgeous it's got a higher resolution despite being a smaller screen pictures images and video really do just pop screen has definitely got to go to the iPhone 4 alright let's talk about specs a little bit here the iPhone 4 is running iOS that goes current version now is 4.1 scott apple is 8 for 1 gigahertz chip 512 megabytes of ram 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and now it can take HDR pictures the Droid 2 has Android 2.2 onboard t-i-is OMAP processor clocked in and gigahertz with 512 megabytes of RAM as well and a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash now if I hadn't worked time I would do a camera test the both pictures are pretty good the HDR images on the iPhone 4 tend to look a little bit better but you take your own digital pictures they both look pretty nice the big difference here is Apple's a4 chip versus Texas Instruments OMAP 1 gigahertz it just performs better it's optimized just for the iPhone here - processors use on a myriad of other devices while it does work well on the joy - doesn't work as well the operating system wasn't made for the processor like we're seeing with the iPhone 4 that's something I've come for it just tend to move it a little bit quicker so from the full specs standpoint that round is going to go back to the iPhone 4 now let's talk about value this is a round that I just added for the first time due to popular demand people want to know what these things are going to cost them and this is going to be accurate served as of right now which is the middle of September so let's talk about the iPhone 4 these you can get a 16 gigabyte model for $1.99 on a two-year contract alright 32 gigabyte model for $2.99 alright now let's focus on the 16 gig for $1.99 do not forget you sort of expandable storage on there you sucked at either 16 or 32 with AT&T if you want 900 minutes to talk it's gonna cost about $60 if you want a limited plan I'll set it cost an extra $10 for 70 bucks so you can get all the talk in it you want for text message think you can get 1,500 texts for 15 bucks 200 text for $5 or a limited for $20 so pretty decent value there for tech messaging and for data then you have this new data plus point you get two gigabytes of data for $25 and if you want to add tethering and got a talk on there 20 bucks for $45 so essentially all in with a brand new 16 gigabyte iPhone 4 gonna be paying a balance three hundred and ten bucks before taxes out of pocket you're gonna be putting in about $100 per month this is dooming that you took the unlimited plan and you went for 1,500 texts and 2 gigabytes of data without tethering let's go ahead and jump on over to the drawer into I comes with 8 gigabytes already installed on the phone you can also comes with a gigabyte microSD cards you get the same 60 megabytes of storage but you can up that up to 32 if you like by buying an extra card but consider your pair 16 gig iPhone 4 to sit with 16 gigs here as well you can get 900 minutes for $60 or in limited for 70 bucks so the same crisis 18 t text messaging plan is not quite as good and get 500 texts for about $10 or 5,000 for 20 as opposed to be unlimited between that you got with AT&T you have to pay for visual voicemail another $3.00 per month but you do get unlimited web access for a $29.99 per month which is pretty nice if you want to add the 3G hotspot capabilities so you can actually use your Droid 2 as a Wi-Fi hotspot then it cost you another $20 per month so again assuming the same unlimited plan now only 500 texts the unlimited web visual voicemail is gonna see about a little more than 300 bucks a month so the same price about $100 per month so it's not the same price wise to get either phone however you are going to get more value for your money if you're a heavy internet user with the Droid to me I can be unrestricted to that so you go by cap however I would assume that to go but cap is probably coming very soon seems like most hair you're gonna be doing it but for right now you are getting what they're calling unlimited however if you use a lot of tech messaging the iPhone 4 so you'd be a bit of a better value for the plan but overall I think that Verizon is offering a little bit better value for the money just based on data usage alone so isn't a value standpoint it's got to go to Verizon's droid to hoping that people a lot of people have been asking for it so we had a nine round test so this is ever keeping track at home let's go ahead and recap the round call quality went to the Droid to battery life went to the iPhone browser went to the Droid 2 because a flash speed went to the iPhone 4 signal strength went back to the Droid 2 text entry stuck with the Droid 2 screen went to the iPhone 4 spectrum to the iPhone 4 and I can't got the bids high breaking around value went to the Droid 2 which gives us a total of five to four in favor of the Droid 2 so in the head-to-head battle with value really came out on top and the jury too is going to be the winner iPhone 4 it's a fantastic phone certainly has a lot of people that love it use it the iPhone 4 is actually my daily driver when you put these two heads ahead and test that I ran the joy too appears to be is a better choice if you're in a fringe area we don't get the best Verizon service you can't go wrong with the iPhone 4 these are two fantastic phones but there can only be one winner and the joy too is that so you agree disagree it really trips what you guys have to say for all your tech content be sure to check out 2nd of Buffalo for all of our heads a heads we do a ton of smartphone comparisons be sure to check me out Twitter twitter.com slash John for lickers for exclusive content I am John Rhett injure and I'll see you in the next video bye bye you