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what's up everyone John Breton jure from TechnoBuffalo here back with another smartphone Smackdown this time we've got two heavyweights in the cellphone world squaring off in one corner we've got Apple's iPhone 4 and in the other we have Motorola's own Atrix 4G we're gonna push these two guys head-to-head in a six round series so let's go ahead and let the fight begin so the six rounds that we are going to cover our specs apps screen speed OS and browser now certainly there are a myriad of other categories that I would love to cover but unfortunate interest of time and having this not be a 40-minute to probably a three hour long video because you guys know I love to talk I had to pick the six categories that I thought were most important to the average user I'm not to say those other categories aren't important you were even to me but it had to be pared down I read the comments and all of my smartphone smackdowns and I always see why didn't you cut 4x and why didn't you cover Y so that is the reason all right so let me also say that there are huge amount of supporters in Apple's camp Mary huge amount of supporters in androids camp so everybody trying to remain as unbiased as possible and I will try and do the same throughout my video I use both on a regular basis of Magni driver I've got a huge affinity for iOS and I've got a huge affinity for Android and I think that I like both equally so we'll go ahead and proceed all right so let's go ahead and start with specs now it's interesting to note that this is these are definitely two phones that a lot of consumers are cropping especially with the iPhone floor being out all under Verizon Atrix 4G is a brand new phone and probably represents a paradigm shift in the spec department of phones packing in videos dual-core 1 gigahertz chimp meaning it's got two cores gigahertz each it's got a gigabyte of RAM a 1930 milliamp hour batteries while a support for HSPA+ the iPhone on the other side when it came out in the middle of 2010 represented one of the best spec Department phones that was available with Apple's own a4 system on the chip at one gears a 1420 milliamp hour battery and 512 megabytes of RAM now don't let the specs fool you here apples got a completely vertically integrated process meaning they control the software how the software optimizes the hardware so they can take full advantage of what the hard we can do Android on the other hand is more of a windows ésta proach they don't make the or at Google who make the operating system does it make the processor doesn't necessarily make the RAM doesn't necessarily control the manufacturers particular case made by Motorola so oftentimes that was some devices these specs are fully optimized for hardware however from a completely spec department the Atrix 4G completely Trump's the iPhone dual core chip is uh is a beast as we'll see as we go through this and it really is one of the fastest phones I've used if not the fastest phone that I have ever tested so this background clearly has to go to the Atrix 4G alright next let's talk about apps and of course we are talking about Android market versus Apple's App Store now this was done six months ago as I did in other smartphones smackdowns this rally was always a blowout in favor of iOS however the applications that I use most in iOS that previously weren't in Android now are an Android they're very full-featured applications so I have had no trouble at all moving seamlessly from iOS to Android the Android Marketplace is really coming to its own you've got the Web Store as well now where you can download apps online send them right to your phone these two are coming very very very close to parity however in Apple's App Store there are a bit more applications I find more useful on a daily basis and that may be a result of the stricter application policy that people have to go through and developers have to go through while you might not agree with the policies it definitely sets a standard for quality of applications an Android Marketplace there a ton of quality and applications in there however there are a lot of applications that wouldn't necessarily pass if there were stringent testing so to get to those great applications that are in the Android Marketplace sometimes you have to wade through something that aren't of the highest quality now I think when we revisit these two app stores in about three months this is going to be much tougher round to call and I know this is going to be around gonna be a subject of much debate but when it comes to apps I think Apple still the king and this rounds got to go to iOS so next let's talk about what you're going to look at on a daily basis these are slight devices so you're going to be looking at these screens the screen on the iPhone 4 and we are looking at an AT&T version here no SIM card in there is a 3.5 inch Retina display with a resolution of 960 by 640 if you look at the Atrix 4G here you've got a 4-inch screen which Motorola is calling qHD with the resolution of 960 by 540 so let's go ahead and look at some of the same images on both phones here and we can talk a little bit more about what the picture quality looks like so I've got a TechnoBuffalo wallpaper here on both it's the exact same image from exactly the same source now I will say the screen on the Atrix does look nice and it does look sharp but it doesn't look as crisp and doesn't look as sharp as the retina display on the iPhone 4 now despite phones that may have you know potentially higher resolutions in the future and phones that might have bigger screens I really haven't seen a phone that's come close to matching the clarity of the iPhone 4 I think Super AMOLED comes really close in a lot of ways Super AMOLED is superior but that's not the technology that we see here in the Atrix 4G we're not even talking from a resolution standpoint just from the average user pictures and the same images look very very very crisp on the iPhone 4 and it looks very crisp on the Atrix 4G but just a little bit better on the iPhone 4 text however on both look really really good this is a case of fantastic vs. awesome both are being really good you're not going to go wrong with either screen on each but when you have to declare winner you put these two heads ahead this one's got to go to iOS all right so next let's talk about speed which has really been all the rage with the Atrix 4G 1 gigabytes of RAM and it's dual-core processor does that translate to actual speed usage and improvements I've tested pretty much every Android phone that's come out since Android first came out and this one is definitely the fastest so it's not necessarily a fair test to open the calendar application on iOS in the calendar application on the Atrix 4G because they're different application made for different operating systems so the best thing that we can do to really compare speed other than you taking my word for it I just open the same applications on each so let's go ahead and do that let's start with one of my favorite and probably mine my biggest time wasters here Angry Birds and I do want to say that I've got really nothing running in the background here on iOS and I do have several applications actually running the backgrounds here on the Atrix 4G they've got a tax manager built then you can see some what's going on here so with that in mind let me go ahead and try and launch Angry Birds here at the same time and we'll see if this gives us any semblance of what we're looking at from a speed standpoint let me go ahead and try and hit this it's harder than it looks at him at the same time I'm not gonna lie alright so both are open so we've got the row view application coming up simply cancel there hit okay and we're actually ready to play despite the little bit of difference me having to hit cancel on iOS then we're actually on Android at least up to this message let's go and hit hit play on both let's just pick a level we'll pick the same level on each hello cities thing at the same time is so much harder than you think it might be great okay so really the more when it come something like Angry Birds on a simple application is both are very fast and you don't see that dual-core necessarily taking advantage of that alright so an application like Angry Birds was kind of a draw so what a lot of the speed tests you are going to have to take my word for it on all the Android devices I've tested and as I mentioned I've tested quite a few sometimes there's a bit of lag as you use the device and sort of more applications are used so even when it comes time to moving applications around there can be a bit of delay whether or not you want to open the camera application or open up any of the core functionalities here there was a bit of a lag the Atrix 4G however is just a really fast phone and you see that come into play a lot in the browser as well we'll talk about the browser and the capabilities of that in an upcoming video so if I was comparing any other Android phone to the Atrix 4G the a trips of winning a heartbeat it is a blistering blistering fast phone and I don't think we've seen applications even begin to take advantage of the dual core functionality it is running Android 2.2 Froyo which has some capabilities to do some dual core functionality however as the operating system does get updated we're going to see more do more dual core functionality and see it take better advantage of the operating system so this round may have to change in the future but when it comes to speed these are both blistering fast devices some things and the clean core applications are faster on the Atrix but some third-party applications and not taking advantage of the dual core yet are still faster on the iPhone 4 so this round is going to be a draw in the speed department and that was actually quite surprised I went through and used this I really expected the Atrix to completely trump everything I compared to other Android devices it does but with these sort of vertically integrated model that Apple's got here the iPhone 4 takes advantage of the specs of that it has alright so next let's talk about operating system I have talked in many many videos about my feelings on Android I really like it I think it's come a tremendously far away and I've talked quite a bit about iOS in recent videos I've lamented that iOS is become a bit stale it looks very similar and almost identical in a lot of ways to what it did when it first launched certainly the App Store and third-party applications have been the main differentiating factor in changing how the operating system looks and functions and that's only because developers take advantage of the API is that Apple is given but the core operating system itself really hasn't changed a notification system is obtrusive if you have to hit cancel or okay and it stops what you're doing on the lockscreen for example you get really no information here other than the time and date can't see any emails Mike and that's really not keeping pace with the competition Android I think was very deficient first launched and has come a tremendously far way so the Atrix here is running motoblur which I am NOT a fan of at all I don't like the big cartoonish icons that it has I don't like that there aren't choices to change those icons down there at least within motoblur however one of the great things about Android is you do have the choice so I don't like how this looks here on motoblur I can go ahead and download a new launcher I can put on launcher Pro for example which I really do like I have flexibility to make the phone look and feel how I want it to look and feel now certainly you've got options within the jailbreaking world on an Apple side and you can do other things with rooting on Android but I want to keep this the sort of end user experience from not having to tweak and not having to go through those extents despite how easy or not easy Mike receive them to be within what the phone will give you just by using you know their app store functionality or their Android Marketplace functionality so I love that I can change and I can tweak Android I like the widgets that run in the background not necessarily like the motoblur ones but I can pick what works best for me I think notification system is really good it's not obtrusive I can pull this down and see what's there I really think Apple needs to improve notifications and some of the functionalities that you get with the out break system so this round around that used to almost always go to Apple is now swinging back towards androids Kim alright so for our final round let's talk about browser and to clarify that OS that definitely goes to Android so in previous rounds I talked about browser functionality and how the iPhones browser at least from a speed standpoint had still been superior to what I've seen in Android the both based on WebKit standards however now with this dual core functionality the speeds less of an issue so let's jump back into the browser here and let me show you what I'm talking about so let's jump to let's say TechnoBuffalo and i've got that sort of queued up here and ready to go so we'll go to TechnoBuffalo I'll let that load do the same thing here we'll jump over to Windows and let's go to TechnoBuffalo so the speed here necessarily so relevant now that the iPhone is on different networks AT&T and Verizon these are both now using the same Wi-Fi network the browser here's work very well and is really fast you don't get any that sort of checkered pattern that you get with some browsers when it's loading we'd actually just saw it there on the iPhone 4 it works and it works very very quickly pinch-to-zoom is very fast without any sort of lag now one of the big differentiating factors here is a support of flash now on other devices that are tested like the inspire 4G for example I turned flash off it does drain battery but I had the option to turn flash off flash constant on a device like that it was a little bit laggy nothing that I wanted to use on a daily basis however let's look how flash content looks on something like the Atrix 4G so let's jump over to YouTube so we'll go ahead and go back to Windows I'll jump to John tor Lakers channel and it picks up right where I left you left off here and it is extremely smooth and one of the best implementations here a flash that I've seen on a mobile device we've got an add point here it's a little down the outside but it works just extremely well it's gonna go ahead and jump to that add flash is now usable on a mobile phone it's not more of a Hey look we have it but not sure what you can do with that kind of thing it really works very very well on the Atrix so well in fact that you could very easily watch Flash content and not have to worry about that sutter so when you sort of put these rounds head-to-head and you give a big summation the picture seems to become a little bit clearer so let me recap from a specs standpoint the Atrix 4G one from an app's standpoint we brought it back to the iPhone from a screen standpoint the iPhone took it from this speed standpoint at least surprising to me that one came out to be a draw from an OS standpoint the Atrix took it and from a browser standpoint because that's flash ability the ability to turn it on or off and sort of use it as you choose Android took that round as well bringing us to a final score of three to two with one tie so the Atrix G is our new smartphone Smackdown winner and remains king of the smartphone world so what do you guys think do you agree disagree am i off not off love to know your thoughts and opinions anyway guys I'm John retina from TechnoBuffalo and I'll stay the next video bye-bye