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what's up everyone John Breton Jeff from TechnoBuffalo here I want to give you a hectic comparison of two of the probably three or four hottest smart phones out right now on the left hand side we've got the new contender Apple's iPhone 4 and on the right we have what is one of the defending champs Verizon's droid incredible these are both very feature packed high powered smartphones and then for professional users or power users let's go ahead and get this comparison started we are going to cover display aesthetics power and battery storage camera general features speed browser keyboard UI and navigation obviously we can make this list go on and off those are sort of the ones that I thought were most important and we're going to declare a winner at the end of this if you missed my video comparing the iPhone 4 versus the HTC EVO 4G they'll be a link to that in the sidebar as well in case you're trying to side which phone is right for you so let's go ahead and get started and let's talk about the display the iPhone 4 is really being pushed and marketed as having the highest resolution than best display at any smartphone I can tell you that there really is quite true it's got a 3.5 inch screen at the resolution which is really unmatched by any other smartphone of 960 by 480 that essentially quadruples the UH the resolution of the previous phone actually the pixel density of the previous phone now is that six hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred the incredible has a little bit bigger screens 3.7 inches but a much lower resolution at 3 sorry at 800 by 480 so are the huge difference there in the screens and you look at the two phones and use the two phones are you really can't see the difference so the edge here clearly has to go to the iPhone for the display now let's talk about aesthetics because this is really gonna come down to what you'd like most thorny want to feel happy pulling out of the club or taking out of the business meeting they both have some sort of unique looks to it so the iPhone will turn off that display I serve a very classic iPhone look is very easily identifiable you know it's an iPhone part the iPhone 4 it does look a bit different its markedly thinner than the outgoing generation it's got this very shiny glass looking back the camera now with the LED on the side you've got sort of these slashes on the side for the antennas that are now broken and you've got a micro SIM card slot on the side there's the other antenna slot and it's not necessarily broken that's where the scenes stop you've got now bigger volume up and down and your profile switcher and on top you sort of got that classic Apple look the incredible is a bit of a different looking phone it's got sort of your classic smartphone look with the screen and navigation options however the back is a bit different HTC so this race car inspired and take off the Batcave it's all red underneath you've got a big camera lens and do LED flash on the front you've got haptic buttons and actually an optical trackpad so the way the phones look is really going to be a personal preference for you personally I like the way the iPhone looks but I have an iPhone user but I can certainly see what people would prefer the way they joined incredible looks so this one has got to be a tie it's going to be a personal preference so next let's talk about power and battery well the iPhone 4 uses Apple system-on-chip a4 processor the same one that's found in the iPad the clock speed hasn't really been reported yet but it's estimated to be clocked down from the one gigahertz that we've seen in the iPad a battery life forgetting about seven hours of talktime on 3G and 14 hours on edge the incredible has a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor which is becoming quite ubiquitous now smartphones and it's extremely capable processor that really runs very fast battery life though is a different story 312 minutes of usage and 146 hours of standby so processor processor it would be very competitive the a4 and the Snapdragon really go at each other very nicely the battery life the iPhone far outshine the Joe incredible so this round since we're combining it is going to go to Apple next we're going to go to storage this is what these get a bit interesting Apple storage is all internal on a flash card in there or a flash drive rather either 16 and 32 gig configurations the incredible uses micro SD which will be more expensive to buy if you want to get a 32 gig size which is the largest currently supported however their advantages to both if you're going to use a lot of apps and not going to remove your storage think that the iPhone is going to be a better option for you fear photographer need to constantly changing cards and showing different things different people you're going to want there moveable storage we're probably going to want to pay the extra bit of money for more car than that our capacity so you may prefer the incredible in that front for me I'm served in the middle so this one is going to be to be as high between the tubes that's going to be a personal preference as well so next let's talk about camera there are a lot to talk throughout there's a lot to discuss the iPhone has a five megapixel camera with an LED flash I'll flip that over so you can see it the incredible on the other hand has an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash you can see those two right there the iPhone can record video at 720p at 30 frames per second the Droid Incredible can record video of a not high definition the Apple iPhone actually bring something else to the table it's got a front-facing 0.3 or VGA resolution camera for video calls which we'll talk about we get to the features video capture on the iPhone looks fantastic its crisp it's sharp and picture quality between the two phones or exo-m's indistinguishable so we're doing the 5 in the 8th so the camera edge most definitely needs to go to the iPhone just for having the front-facing camera and the HD video really give it the the edge of my book alright so next let's talk about features of both bring a very unique set of features to the table here the incredible running Android also brings HTC Sense UI which has a lot of cool things we've got sort of snap feature you can pick what homescreen you want to jump to it's very quick and very responsive as you can see here it also uses Google Maps Navigation is a free turn-by-turn navigation option we've served a great add-on for Android 1.6 from newer devices and it works very well the features of the iPhone 4 brings you're going to get face time which is your video calling when over Wi-Fi which works really really really well we got the Retina display the high resolution screen and you also now have Wi-Fi and so 802 11 and for faster data transfers already effective to an end capable network serve those core features I give the iPhone a bit of an edge over the incredibles we're going to give this round to the incredible so next let's talk about speed these are both screaming fast let me show you what applications are currently open and running on each we've got settings and browser and on incredible same thing browser and settings so we serve at the same standpoint here so let's talk about browser speed both are connected to the same Wi-Fi network and I want to show you how fast their load web pages we're gonna do this test as they always do for pages that you visit on a regular basis so these pages have been loaded on each phone we're gonna try TechnoBuffalo com I'm gonna try my youtube channel at youtube.com slash John four leggers let's go ahead and get this party rockin go ahead open this up we've got the YouTube channel already loaded here we've got the YouTube channel already loaded to here so we're gonna do a simple refresh on each then what's hot browser the browser features as we go I'm gonna go ahead and hit that's that and we gonna go at the same time or like go at the same time alright and we're often these are both again connected over the same Wi-Fi network and we did this test with the HTC EVO we saw the Evo was much faster than the iPhone 4 and loading with building web pages now let's say forget the same results here the incredible was noticeably quicker when loading web pages and you'll also notice that it's actually trying to display Flash content you'll see flash ads like open upper right-hand corner because the incredible can handle flash capable browsing which is a really nice sort of addition to the to the phone itself it's something that works terribly well it's sort of choppy and it's certainly a bit of a battery drain but there may be times when you need it and it's nice to have both our multi-touch capable the multi-touch on the iPhone 4 is buttery smooth scrolling is very smooth it's a little bit jerky on the incredible but it worked very well you can tap to zoom on both let's try another webpage maybe this is just sort of an anomaly and not going to be regular cards let's jump over to TechnoBuffalo calm i'll do the same thing here on be incredible both are queued up let's go ahead and refresh both pages and we'll see if the tests are accurate and then we'll try loading a webpage with Wi-Fi turned off and maybe network-to-network the iPhone is going to be fast or maybe horizons is still going to be quicker let's go ahead and check this out this uses everything that the browser the processor Ram sort of puts everything together into one test and again over the same Wi-Fi network and it looks like we're getting the same results the incredible is loading a bit quicker okay iPhone is catching up so might be a dogfight they're almost exactly the same place iPhones got lead may be incredible is catching up now incredible finish first and the iPhone 4 finished in just a few seconds later so there you go be incredible as faster loading both webpages now let's try this turning off Wi-Fi and see if network-to-network Alice is going to work I've got about five bars of 18 t 3g and it's again a very obviously by where you are in location and I have about one to two bars of e video so this may not be the most fair test but I do want to show you the network speed as well if 18 if Verizon's blows faster over one bar then you'll certainly know that there's a reason for it alright so look what settings go and turn off Wi-Fi I'm gonna do this on cameras you can see there's nothing fishy going on and we'll jump into settings here we'll go to wireless networks I will turn off Wi-Fi alright so now we are using network to network I now have two bars of 3G and five bars of 3G here on the iPhone sort of in full disclosure look then open up each open up each and we're gonna refresh the page again green arrow there and the Go button there and they are both off and let's see which is quicker network to network and it still looks like well looks like the Verizon's is a little bit quicker here so far and again this is gonna vary depending on where you are location-wise so if Verizon is done loading actually loaded very quickly and 18t finish up just a second later and this was with Verizon having have fewer bars so it's sort of interesting to note alright let's go ahead and move on to applications begin see if things load quicker or slower on both we'll go ahead and jump home let's go ahead and pick sort of similar applications let's how about we tried camera as always a good to see and I know this is a very unscientific test different operating systems open applications differently but let's just see the speed just for fun it's either taking sitter difference I missed it right there didn't get at the same time let's try that one more time and of course they open in the background there we go so that the iPhone 4 opened in just a little bit quicker by not much let's try a different application let's try opening let's see what we got find something that is of similar let's try all right we'll try opening up 7 since what's been opened up on each looking everybody has to open so about the same so I've noticed reopen applications is speed they're both screaming fast the web browsing the risk of the difference over Wi-Fi and over the networks with the two devices so speed was definitely has to go to be incredible so something to to keep in mind the browser we started talked about you start us on inaction saw how it worked whether you like flash or don't like fog it's going to be sort of a personal preference but both browsers are very capable and can handle serve the content very nicely so for me I prefer sure the smoothness of the browser on the iPhone I can live without flash but I recognize others are they going to want the flash and may be able to give ups or that smoothness to have that capability so browser almost definitely has to be a tie as well so let's go ahead and jump into keyboard now I do want to give certain full disclosure I am an iPhone user so I'm more used to the iPhone keyboard but I have gone on the record as saying I really do like the way Android implemented text input well let's go ahead and see how this works that will jump into messages I'll get a new message and one feature about Android or new verb builds with Android that I really like is that text-to-speech and it works really really well you tap it and say what you want and the text shows up and it's almost all the time a very accurate so let's do a quick test here and I also like the autocorrect on the keywords my Android does a very nice job so I'm gonna type something in let me go and back up actually I want to type in a compose feel about recipient that's right I'm trying to type winnie-the-pooh sounds gross meaning the puh sound gross so isn't that far off taptic feedbacking type but you also could have a landscape keyboard and again the full disclosure I am NOT as used to this keyboard that will be to the iPhones let me try this one more time Meeny the poo is gross it's a little bit better there but not that far off and let's try now to keyboard following the iPhone and see how this one functions I'll go ahead and open up notes and I will open up a new note here as well and we'll see how this works so we got two keyboard options the same way I'll try this again so mini the puds fund the gross not so accurate there either and try it in this one so a little bit better there winnie-the-pooh sounds gross a little bit more accurate now I'm trying to fight my desire to give the edge here to the iPhone that's just because I'm used to it I think the key word it's almost easier to use on the iPhone but the text-to-speech on Android is a huge advantage so keyboard to keyboard input here I'm going to give that a time because again that's going to be a personal preference I'm trying to be as impartial as possible so let's talk about UI as well cuz there's a lot to sort of discuss from UI and how you navigate up through the phone's so the iPhone is really this thing is how you're gonna use to navigate very few buttons other than the home button all your navigation is sort of done with your finger but it's pinching and zooming or moving around or making folders by dragging icons it's all done with your finger really there aren't many menu buttons navigation however on the joy incredible is much the same way but a bit different you can see you've got four menu buttons across the bottom you also have an optical trackpad which sort of works almost like a little bit of mouse you can scroll it push through and you can push it in to select if you'd like I'll bring systems operating system very different sort of methods Apple does a fantastic job with the closed environment if you like sort of living within Apple's walled garden and you don't mind having serve those restrictions you know the phone's gonna work very well is think of everything added that you need it to and it's going to be a very smooth and seamless experience Andrea is a bit more open you can certainly live within the Google Apps atmosphere and serving just use Gmail and after the marketplace but the outbreak system itself is much more open and can be customized a bit more but so can you come down to the user what sort of preference you are going to prefer both now handle multitasking I just heard the big difference between the two later date so this one here is also going to be a tot so I'm gonna go ahead and tally this up now a display went to Apple aesthetics with the time Apple got power and battery get tied for storage Apple about the camera Apple about the features incredible about speed and we had a tie for browser keyboard and UI so that gives us one two three four five rounds that were tied Apple got one two three four rounds and Apple won an incredible one one round so means our winner of the iPhone 4 versus the Droid Incredible is the iPhone that does not by any stretch the imagination me being credible is a bad choice as a fantastic phone with a lot of options but if you're stuck looking at which once guess I think that the iPhone is probably going to be the best choice for you again but of any other features I mentioned sort of are more value to you like you want the open environment then you know the joint incredible it's going to be a really solid choice anyway guys I'm John Breton jure from TechnoBuffalo be sure you would subscribe to the channel if you like the videos have a ton of iPhone Android coverage up there as well as the time it's versus videos be sure to check out the website TechnoBuffalo comm for all your tech news and I will see you in the next video bye bye