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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to compare the iPhone 4 with the brand new Samsung Galaxy S 2 let's get to it okay so what's to talk about here let's start off with pricing the iPhone 4 is available in two configurations the 16 gigabyte model is 200 bucks and 32 gigabyte model is 300 bucks now the galaxy s2 is much more expensive because it's sold unlocked right now it's not tied to carriers around the world and when it is tied it'll be offered at a lower price it also has two capacities the 16 gigabyte version is about 700 bucks right now very expensive obviously the 32 gigabyte version is not yet shipping that's going to be even more expensive although with the galaxy s 2 you get expandable memory you don't get that on the iPhone 4 so you probably don't want to opt for the higher capacity version because the price difference is probably more than buying a micro SD card to expand that the capacity of the samsung galaxy s 2 so in terms of pricing the iPhone 4 is definitely lower right now but we'll have to see how the galaxy s2 gets priced once it's available on different carriers now let's talk about build quality and hardware both devices have a home button right in the front of real Hardware home button which is nice to have in terms of screen size we've got a 3.5 inch Retina display which means is 960 by 640 the PPI of that is 326 and we'll come back to PPI in a sec the samsung galaxy s2 has a 4.3 inch screen much larger the resolution is lower though WVGA 800 down by 480 across the ppi here is 217 what PPI means is that if you take a square inch on both screens and you count all the pixels inside the PPI will tell you how many pixels you will count 326 on the iPhone 4 217 on the samsung galaxy s 2 meaning that there are more pixels in a given area on the iPhone 4 text will be sharper images will be crisper although the galaxy s 2 is no slouch when it comes to image fidelity it's got the Super AMOLED plus panel which has incredible contrast color naturalness if that's a word is a little bit less on the on the Galaxy s2 as we're going to see we'll compare some photos side by side and viewing angle is also not as good as it is on the iPhone 4 but both of these have tremendously high quality screens so that's not really something that you have to worry about they fo got both got front facing cameras 1.3 megapixels on the iPhone 4 and 2 megapixels on the samsung galaxy s 2 so so you have the video chat option on both with high quality imaging in terms of build quality and materials use the iPhone 4 is glass and metal that's really a glass on the front glass on the back metal on the sides the Galaxy s2 has a lot of plastic but in hand it feels very high quality we've got glass on the front plastic on the back but again that really doesn't impact build quality it's very rigid it feels good in the hand you can't twist it even though there's a lot of plastic used and it's a lot lighter than the iPhone 4 - which is nice but it's also as you can see here bigger so it's going to be bigger in the pocket if that's a consideration for you turning over to the back we've got cameras here so we've got a 5 megapixel camera with a flash on the iPhone 4 and an 8 megapixel camera on the back of the galaxy s2 with a flash as well 720p video capture here 1080p video capture on the Galaxy S 2 both of these devices take awesome photos and video the iPhone 4 used to have the best imaging when it came to a smartphone the galaxy s really rivals that you can see the sample images we posted in the pocketnow.com review we'll put up a link in the description if you want to jump back to that and obviously no removable backing here on the iPhone 4 but you can remove the back on the Galaxy S 2 you can access the battery you can put in your SIM card you can add a micro SD card if that's what you want to do we've got a single speaker here we've got a single speaker here both of these have about the same volume when it comes to speaker phone and external sounds they both have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as you can see there we'll turn back onto the front now in terms of other specs we've got the a4 chip inside of the iPhone 4 which clocks in at about one gigahertz with 512 megabytes of RAM Samsung's latest and greatest has much higher specs than that it's got a 1.2 gigahertz dual core Exynos processor probably similar to what we're going to see in the iPhone 5 maybe clocking in a little bit lower we've got a full gigabyte of RAM here on the samsung galaxy s2 and it really shows in terms of browsing performance and day to day usability and we're going to compare definitely some speed aspects of both of these devices to see which one is faster so both of these devices have incredibly now both of these devices obviously have different interfaces they both need you to slide to unlock and and we're talking about the difference between Android and iOS and the differences are huge and you know a lot of them in Android of course you can have multiple panels we've got only one set up with configurable resizable widgets and so here's an example of just one panel I have I can take this widget I can resize it so you're getting a lot more versatility on the Galaxy s2 or in Android in general the iPhone 4 of course is just icon after icon there's no app tray although interestingly the app tray on the Galaxy s2 is kind of modeled off of the iPhones home screens here so if you move an icon you can't arrange it anywhere if we actually go back we'll go back here and we'll hit the edit button so when you move around the icons they kind of all migrate towards the upper left corner like you get on the iPhone 4 so we can't put an icon down here it's going to jump back over there that's the same situation here on the samsung galaxy s2 it just jumps right back into its own configuration just like on the iPhone 4 we can have folders in the samsung galaxy s2 this is thanks to the TouchWiz interface we can drop a variety of icons down here we can take a folder put it up there add a folder name so this is kind of Android turned a little bit iOS e on the samsung galaxy s2 we can hit the Save button and now we've got a folder and then if we go over to folder here we get a sort of pop down we've got to pop up here on the Samsung Galaxy s2 looking at the folders inside of the inside of the program list in terms of data speeds on the iPhone 4 you'll get speeds of well let's actually look at some results that we've had over cellular data so we have to look for this icon on average you're going to get about 2 megabits per second down of course depending on where you live and sort of the speeds that you can experience 2 megabits per second down and sometimes you get as high as 4 and about 1.5 megabits per second up over HSDPA although these results aren't complete I've got the speeds of up to 6 megabits per second down on the galaxy s2 because it's HSPA+ compatible on AT&T now the iPhone 5 is likely to have HSPA+ so you can reach those higher data speeds but right now the Samsung Galaxy s2 is the phone to get if you want the fastest data speeds possible okay let's talk about the all-important web browser speed comparison test so we're going to open up Google on both and we've got it over there so we'll go to Google and we'll load it here now right away you can tell the difference between these two screens we're going to take a look at an image in a second so let's look at just this white screen the white is whiter here on the Samsung Galaxy s2 it's got kind of a almost a milky covering to it on the iPhone 4 let's take a look at screen viewing angles and so we're on automatic screen brightness here you might see it change so we're going to turn to the side and you can kind of get a sense for how that looks so now it's starting to disappear but that's pretty good on the iPhone 4 it's even better you can still see it you can still see it and we're almost all the way at 90 degrees it's pretty amazing the viewing angle of the IPS display on the iPhone 4 but definitely the galaxy s2 is no slouch when it comes to screen visibility so we're going to jump to images we are going to hey we've got the same pictures here we'll pick click on this guy right here and I don't know who this guy is but take a look at how his face looks we'll click view full size on both and you can kind of get a sense colors look a little bit more natural on the iPhone for other the contrast is incredible on the galaxy s2 we've got both again turn to automatic screen brightness just to keep it fair but in terms of image quality it depends on who you ask I think the galaxy s2 looks better but some people would come in here and say that the colors are more natural on the iPhone 4 let's look at another picture let's type rainforest in here and see what we can get click rainforest click the X okay okay and here we go we're going to just tap on the first image that we come across and again the colors look different and the contrast is definitely noticeably different as well so we've got very sharp harsh greens here on the left and they're a little bit more natural with the iPhone but then again if you look at the blacks the rocks they are just really sharply black so again whether you like color accuracy or contrast that's a matter of personal opinion but the iPhone 4 and the galaxy s ii certainly excel in different ways let's go into another website let's go to pocketnow.com see which loads faster we're actually just going to go straight to my cat now calm ok so we've loaded the mobile sites here let's go to the bottom or click desktop version see which comes up quicker both over the same Wi-Fi network and as it's loading I want to scroll down we got a little bit of a hesitation there the galaxy has to finished and while it was loading it could actually scroll down the page still going here on the iPhone 4 and it's going to finish up momentarily now it's interesting to note and what's kind of nice to notice that the galaxy s2 has no bottom bar so you get really the fullscreen web experience if you ignore the notification bar at the top on the iPhone 4 you're going to see the address bar will disappear let's force it to go away once you scroll down but you don't get that really full screen maximum view we can double tap to zoom in certainly or sort of pinch to zoom and both will reach the column let's actually check out text we're going to have to find the same place so we okay so we've got the text about the same size and if I bring this phone and close on the screen you're going to see how crisp and clear it is on the iPhone because we've got a higher ppi it looks like print on a paper on the galaxy s2 it's still really darn clear but if you look very very closely you'll see pixels and it's not that bad it's not that noticeable we're only comparing these phones side-to-side and that's probably why we're being ultra picky about PPI now let's swipe to the right and see which page loads faster when we try to get these headlines in all right the galaxy s2 is finished and the iPhone 4 is still loading let's talk about tab management on the iPhone 4 you press this button in the right bottom right corner tab management is something that phones haven't really gotten right yet they haven't been able to recreate the desktop experience thankfully third-party browsers exist like Dolphin HD that put the tabs on the top here on the galaxy s 2 it's kind of a difficult gesture to get but you pinch like this and you brought out into the tab view and click new page or new window and boom you have a new window to work with then you can zoom out again that takes a little bit of practice you can swipe side by side they look almost the same right they've got the dots on the bottom they've got the previews going side by side and it will show you a little preview of what is inside the window it's a pretty good tab management for both so let's jump into another more complex website will go to engadget.com it's got the really long page you go they're both going to load the mobile version the galaxy s2 is first with that we can scroll down take a look at the various elements and go all the way down to the bottom the galaxy s2 is is faster scrolling than the iPhone but that may or may not be good for you you might want to take your time with scrolling a little bit and this is the mobile site so you can't actually pinch to zoom let's try to get these at the same time perfect and they're loading the mobile versions I'm going to move around on the page while they load it big difference here that the galaxy s2 already finished end of the day the galaxy s2 really has fantastic web browsing performance that beats even the King the iPhone 4 in terms of web browsing speed the iPhone 5 will probably come in and destroy everyone once again but right now the Galaxy S 2 Trump's the iPhone 4 in terms of rendering speed and smoothness of scrolling and even things like scrolling down the page when pages are loading and not getting checkerboards so very impressive Samsung Galaxy s2 definitely wins when it comes to web browsing speed and capability so your choice between the galaxy s2 and the iPhone 4 is really going to come down to personal preference if you are in the market for the first time for a smartphone and you want to figure out which operating system you want to spend time with because let's face it once you've used Android for a while or iOS or Windows Phone 7 you've bought the apps you've spent the time to customize it's really a big time commitment depending on on where you are in the buying process the Galaxy S 2 is not only a great starter smartphone but it's a great smartphone that you know is going to be high-end for for a couple of years to come yeah it doesn't have the higher screen resolution the build quality isn't as high as the iPhone 4 but it is fast it is thin it's just a little bit too expensive right now so if you can wait a little bit wait until the Galaxy S 2 is available on other carriers but to be honest if you wait to that point the iPhone 5 might be out and that might blow the galaxy s 2 out of the water so it really comes down to personal preference how long you want to wait how long you want to spend both of these devices are awesome but it's especially impressive what Samsung has been able to do with a galaxy s2 and making a true contender to the best smartphones that are out there because this is probably the best smartphone that is out there right now at least in our opinion if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up and again if you want to see the full review we've already posted on pocket now it's got a lot of information about the Galaxy s2 be sure to check that out if you're interested thanks for watching and that's it for now you