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hey everyone its Jeff Farina with pocket now calm and this next video is going to be part 2 of our software comparison of the HTC evo 4g to the samsung galaxy s we're going to show you some in-depth coverage of navigating the general home screen playing some games such as asphalt five as well as the YouTube application so let's go ahead and kick that off one popular discussion topic when it comes to android are the amount of homescreens a person or a user can have now HTC Sense here will give me seven screens you can see here I can swipe all the way over we have one two three four five six seven and yes as you saw i'm currently not using those i had widgets on there but i took them off to be fair with the speed the Samsung Galaxy S will give you the exact same amount of screens however you can only scroll from the left to the right you cannot go both ways as you can see here we're on screen one here is screen too we keep moving so on and so forth all the way up to number seven so they will be comparable in that sense one of the main things that really stuck out to me was HTC Sense has a friend column here I can actually scroll through and call on my friends is almost like a speed dial the samsung galaxy s uses that same type of idea and Samsung's overlay where they have what's called a buddies now which it's actually kind of cool-looking you can actually flick through here and actually kind of like a pinwheel get to your contacts gives you the option to message them message them or call them right from there so they both incorporate some of the same aspects in that sense as you can see we have the quick buttons for the 4g the Wi-Fi so on and so forth just like every other Android device you have the power manager on the Samsung Galaxy that is one of the Android widgets so those are some of the similarities in terms of the home screen navigation now HTC Sense has this giant flip clock with the weather built right in I'm using beautiful widgets here to actually give me the same effect now next up we're going to test the YouTube application on each of these two devices now it is the same application however there may be a different load time based on the fact that they are using a different CPU and a different GPU so what we do right now is going to go ahead and test it out I'm going to up YouTube at the same time and I'm going to turn them both into landscape mode so that I can help up a video and show you side-by-side or better yet top to bottom now once again samsung galaxy s is here evo 4g is here and we're going to pick a pocket now video and i'm going to do the motorola droid x unboxing so the same exact time i must elect both of these and it looks like the samsung galaxy s started playing faster one thing to keep in mind there though is the evo is actually playing the HQ version as you can see the HQ is highlighted right here with that being said the screen difference is astounding here it really shows itself off in terms of these super amoled versus the LCD just the color accuracy the color saturation the evil really does look washed out unfortunately compared to this once again though the evo is playing it in the high quality or the samsung galaxy s by default is not next up we're also going to take a look at the software keyboard inch these two devices now what's nice one android is you can customize and skin a lot of the different aspects of the operating system including the keyboard however the default keyboards really go a long way with some devices and on some other devices they really need some improvement we're going to open up handcent SMS which is what i use on all my android devices and we'll start a new message here and as you can see in terms of the keyboard the HTC evos keyboard is much much bigger it's also going to incorporate those arrows i personally like the HTC evos keyboard much better it's easier for me to type the fact that the keys are actually together makes a little bit easier for me to just glad my fingers across the screen and type of a text message very quickly where's with the Samsung Galaxy S I find myself making typos a lot more often than I do on the EVO however the orientation is nice it's still very similar a lot of phones they'll change the orientation some phones especially with the hardware keyboards will actually bring the spacebar from the middle here and put it on the side the right side which doesn't make a lot of sense to me so at least that is kept consistent here last but not least I want to test some of the gameplay capabilities of each of these two devices side by side and what I'm actually going to do that with is going to be the game asphalt five now the Samsung Galaxy S comes with the full version of five pre-loaded on the device already whereas in the evo I have the free version of asphalt five now the quick race function or the option I would say in the game itself is identical so that's actually I'm going to test the game out itself will kind of see how the frame rate is how the graphics look that sort of things let's go ahead and actually start these up identically at the same time and I'm actually put them in landscape mode and I'm going to try and play them on camera holding them both at the same time because they do use the accelerometer to steer so it's gonna be a little difficult but i am going to give it a shot again we have the quick race option here was what we're actually going to do now the reason why the galaxy right jumped ahead is i already have a default car selected which was that mini cooper type cars you saw i'm just going to wait for both these together to load and they're going to go ahead and get off to the races so i'm gonna go ahead and tap these at the same time i'll let you be the judge once again the colors do look a little better on these samsung galaxy s itself I would honestly say it's a little hard for me to because I'm trying to steer with both these at the same time and they're a little bit of a difference but I would just say that by default here I was kind of let it run the frame rate on the galaxy s seems to be a little more saw a little more consistent to me I would say it's a higher frames per second I would say in terms with a graphical detail it looks pretty much the same you know that the colors are one thing that's the difference in the screen itself but I would say overall the frame rate seems much smoother at least to me on these samsung galaxy s as you can see they're just actually locked up on the samsung galaxy s now that I look at it also the car itself that I'm driving on the Samsung Galaxy S which is the top phone does seem to be more detailed a little bit shinier so I would say the graphics are the GPU the samsung galaxy s definitely seems a little better due to that the software some of the games such as asphalt five here runs actually better on the device itself and that's going to do it for our software comparisons of the HTC evo 4g against the 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