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the samsung at Eve Odyssey is the newest smartphone for verizon wireless and it's also the first Samsung built windows phone 8 device for the United States but it's not the first at Eve branded device that honor belongs to the achieve s which we reviewed last month so let's see how they stack up I'm Michael Fisher this is pocket now and this is Samsung at Eve Odyssey vs samsung at Eve s okay so in this quick look we're going to compare these devices in four areas build specs camera and general performance will have a full review on this device shortly so make sure to subscribe and follow us at the links in the description so you don't miss it it will be epic or at least as epic as a mid-range device review can be that's right despite its lofty name the odyssey is a mid-tier device and you can tell that just by looking at it not that it looks cheap but it's obviously not striving to be the thinnest or prettiest of the bunch at 11.1 millimeters it's pretty chunky next to the ax t veces eight point seven millimeters but it's also 10 grams lighter at 125 grams at the same time it's got a much smaller footprint than the achieve s a much more rounded shape and a much less outspoken aesthetic design with it's more understated back cover all this combines to make the achieve odyssey feel a little more toilet than its premium sibling which isn't a surprise considering its fifty dollar price on contract the smaller size will appeal to those tired of jumbo phones though and that reduced footprint is thanks to a smaller 4-inch display which brings us into specs the Super AMOLED display the odyssey is nothing to get excited about resolution wise with its 480 x 800 display at 233 ppi and especially sitting next to the ax t VES is big beautiful 4.8 inch 720p Super AMOLED at 306 PPI the Odysseys colors pop and the blacks are deep as you might expect but the pixels are painfully visible to our eyes even more so than on other mid-range devices color is also way off with crimson appearing much more magenta on the Odyssey in all the display is pretty disappointing next to the achieve ass but this being a Windows Phone some differences are only skin deep the processor driving the Odyssey is the same 1.5 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 plus as in the atty of s backed up by the same gig of ram performance benchmarks were similar using the benchmarking utility WP bench with the odyssey scoring an average of two 42 the achieve esas 237 in addition each device offers microSD expansion up to 64 gigs and a removable battery though the onboard memory on the Odyssey is 8 gigs to the achieve s is 16 and the battery capacity is 2100 milliamp hours to the achieve SS 2300 will have full battery performance figures on our full review also taking a step down in specs is the odyssey's camera which comes in at five megapixels to the ax t veces 8 megapixels the photos look worse on the odyssey's inferior display but once you get them off the phone it's remarkable how similar they are to the achieve esas results the reduced resolution is apparent but the color balance and saturation and temperature are very close and at first glance these results look quite nice for stills the odyssey seems to offer one of the better mid-range phone cameras we've played with especially if you don't need the marginal resolution improvements that the achieve s is larger sensor provides video is ok as well see our dedicated sample video for that but neither of these devices is going to win any prizes for audio recording finally if you're not familiar with Windows Phone you might not be aware that performance between different devices running the platform tends to be very close if not identical regardless of hardware and that holds true here with a very fluid UI experience in the home screen in the app list and in the multitasking screen which should be empty because we will just do a quick app launch comparison on each device we should be very close to identical after a fresh boot here one two three on messaging messaging launch identical one two three on email once again the same result and in the browser were on the same Wi-Fi hotspot so we're not comparing speed here we are just comparing rendering speed and ability and as you can see the page as some gaps in it as we scroll while the page is still loading once the loading process completes that smooths up just a little bit let's do double tap to zoom in on a column there that goes once again I'll to see on the left s on the right double tap to zoom out double tap to zoom in and we'll do just a little pinch test very very similar as far as rear ndering things get less pixelated and I've accidentally tapped on a link difficult to run two phones at the same time even for Captain two phones and to close out our app launch comparison we'll just hop into to third-party apps for starting with row e Twitter app loading the timeline there we go the odyssey beating the ax t vas by a few seconds there might be a result of data but nothing that's going to ruin your productivity workflow all day and the popular third-party note-taking app Evernote loading for the first time and there it is finally let's belabor the point with a somewhat taxing flight simulator rise of glory you can see that with the same CPU and RAM under the hood the Odyssey delivers very very nice performance in fact it is identical performance to every other Windows Phone device and my performance is identical as well the ativa Odyssey and the ax t vas are very different products for very different kinds of customers in some ways like the build the display and the camera resolution that disparity is very apparent in others like the processor storage options performance and camera quality there's really not much difference at all if you're looking for a samsung windows phone 8 device right now your buying decision might ultimately come down to which device is available where you live the atif Odyssey if you're in the United States and in a verizon wireless coverage area and the achieve s everywhere else at least for now everyone we're gonna have a lot more coverage on the achieve odyssey including a full review coming very soon stay tuned to pocket now for that follow us in the links at the description throw us a thumbs up if you liked the video and thanks for watching we'll see you soon