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hey guys it's Branagh minimun from pocket now calm the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the iPhone 4s are two of the hottest smartphones on the market right now and in this video we're going to put them head-to-head in a comparison let's get to it okay let's get started with pricing and availability the iPhone 4s is available on a lot of carriers around the world specifically in the US it's on Verizon Sprint and AT&T for $1.99 $2.99 or 399 depending on whether you want 16 32 or 64 gigabytes of data space you can also get it as an unlock device and choose your own carrier of course you're going to be running around $600 or more for that privilege the Galaxy Nexus is only available as an unlocked GSM phone right now shipping in Europe you can get it at clove code UK for example for around $600 it will work on t-mobile and AT&T in the US but a version for Verizon is coming it's going to be a little bit thicker but it will have LTE support and the thinking on that is that it'll be $299 after a new two-year agreement it's likely that the Galaxy Nexus or in fact likely it's it's most likely that it'll be coming to the US as an unlocked phone just like it's unlocked in Europe so you can choose your own carrier and again we're talking about 600 bucks for the privilege of owning the Galaxy Nexus let's talk about hardware on both of these devices very very different hardware in terms of feel and thickness and screen resolution start off with the iPhone we've got that 3.5 inch screen it is 960 by 640 resolution making for a pixel density of 326 which is the highest pixel density of any phone out there even the Galaxy Nexus which has that full 720p display 1280 down by 720 across it's a four point six five inch screen you might be thinking bigger is better for screens right well some people don't agree with that on the iPhone the 3.5 inch screen means that you can reach any part of the screen with your thumb with one hand on the Galaxy Nexus unless you have very big hands you're not going to be able to reach the top of the screen with one hand thus requiring you to take out in hand not that big of a deal but some people really appreciate the one-handed usability of the iPhone but also there's a lot of people that are saying hey the screen is just way too small on the iPhone when you play video when you play games it just it really lacks that that largeness that you get with the bigger screens of save the galaxy nexus so let's turn them over to the side here and take a look at hardware at its thinnest point the Galaxy Nexus is thinner than the iPhone and its thickest point down towards the bottom it is thicker than the iPhone so depending on what part of the phone you're looking at of course we've got this curved design the Galaxy Nexus the iPhone for us is just 2 wafers of glass in between some metal let's turn over to the Mac we've got an 8 megapixel camera on the iPhone 4s capable of shooting 1080p video wait until the end of this video and you can see 1080p samples from both of these devices we've got a lower SPECT camera here 5 megapixels on the Galaxy Nexus also capable of 1020 p video and you'll be the judge of which takes better video we've got the speaker back here got the speaker on the bottom on the iPhone and going over the other side basically the same kind of thing volume rockers are on the same side on both of these devices inside we've got a Apple's a5 dual-core 1 gigahertz CPU with 512 megabytes of RAM inside of the Galaxy Nexus we have a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core CPU from Texas Instruments with 1 gigabyte of RAM this particular model is the 16 gigabyte model but of course you can go to 32 or 64 gigabytes Galaxy Nexus this is the 16 gigabyte model and that's really all you get you don't even get microSD expansion so if you want more you can't have more in terms of the actual design of the devices we've got a large predominant screen on the Galaxy Nexus no buttons the buttons are built into the screen of course on the iPhone we have the the home button here the quintessential home button for all I Oh s devices both have front facing cameras proximity sensors and light sensors which you get a little bit different on the Galaxy Nexus and you can see it blinking here is a notification LED which tells you when you have missed calls miss emails and that kind of thing very useful so you don't always have to turn on your screen too see what's going on on your phone in terms of 4G the iPhone 4s is capable of HSPA+ on AT&T on the other CDMA networks of course you get EVDO Rev a Galaxy Nexus can also do HSPA+ so really the playing field is level here until you get the LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus which should be extremely fast on Verizon's network so you know this story here we've got iOS 5 here and Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 android has always been about customization so you can go to a variety of home screens up to 5 you can't choose if you want to have more or less it's always 5 you can add dynamic widgets that show you battery life or your next calendar appointment or the weather or stock information on the iPhone it's still icons and icons and icons you can make folders but you can also make folders now or you've always been able to make folders on Android now they operate in the same way that it does on iOS so we click and drag and a little folder will appear just like if you were to do likewise here it kind of folder appears and there you go so homescreen interfaces they look similar although of course with Android you can add lots of widgets to your heart's content and you can make you can install a third-party launcher and Android can't do that in iOS unless you jailbreak both of these devices now have notification trays they slide in from the bottom this was possibly a ripoff of Android when Apple decided to do the slide down notification chain although you could argue how else can you make a notification shade of course we get that here in the on the Galaxy Nexus here but we can selectively remove notifications you can do that by group when you have a lot of notifications in iOS if you want to access more apps in Android 4.0 of course you hit the app tray you can swipe to the right page to the right in iOS of course you have to have all your apps on the home screen there is no app tray you just put your apps there you can organize them into folders put them away on different screens but there's no way of really hiding apps that you don't use they're always there in your face ok so let's go back and talk about web browsing performance very important both of these devices have clear cache we'll make sure that the programs are out of memory here so we'll swipe that away double tap and make sure that safaris out of memory let's see which opens faster that's always good to see okay pretty much equal there so let's do that and we'll go to pocketnow.com again all cash has been cleared see which gets there faster okay iPhone 4s slightly faster both are very smooth moving down the page you get to see how the higher resolution screen of Galaxy Nexus makes it possible to see more on the page at one time so we've got four stories here and we've got one two three four five we've got much more than four stories there so let's go to the bottom hit desktop version lots of images here a lot of content let's see which gets there first over the same Wi-Fi network by the way screen brightness is set is the same the iPhone 4s one there let's pinch to zoom pinch to zoom very smooth on both slightly choppy here there's a lot going on on the the pocket now page with lots of images let's slide over here to this story up here that cleared up will let them go at different times okay we can move down the page can zoom in pan around let's open up the Galaxy Nexus review which has a ton of images so let's see which device can handle all of these images better and while it's loading let's see what happens we get checkerboards here or really a blank screen now everything is there but for a while on the iPhone 4s kind of blanked out from it so you couldn't see anything let's check screen like that let's check screen rotation suite see which can rotate quick more quickly kind of get a head start there on the Galaxy Nexus do it again exact same time even with the animation on the iPhone 4s a little bit faster on the iPhone 4s so not that much of a difference let's go to another website and then we will jump into the next test okay let's jump into another page this time let's go to Engadget here okay Galaxy Nexus was first there go down the page faster scrolling on the Galaxy Nexus let's try to hit the desktop link can't really pinch to zoom on a mobile site at the same time again another page with a lot of images a lot of complex code let's see which handles it better kind of move down the page while they load about it ty they're really both of these devices are very capable web browsing machines both are very smooth although with the Galaxy Nexus you just get a lot more because the screens much larger and you have more pixels on the screen to work with you can also choose that full screen browsing turned on on the Galaxy Nexus which gets rid of this bar at the top granting you an even bigger view of the web alright for the next test here we're gonna go into YouTube YouTube has been cleared for a memory on both devices let's see which opens it up faster boom okay it looks like they were about at I their iOS actually brought it forth faster but the content didn't load as fast as we have in the Galaxy Nexus so let's actually search for say Galaxy Nexus we're going to click on the first video we see here in which see which starts playing first boom starts off in landscape here looks like it was first on a Galaxy Nexus as you can see of course with the larger screen on the Galaxy Nexus you just get a much larger view you don't get black bars on the top but both are playing the video back very very smoothly they were within seconds of loading but gotta say definitely a much better video experience on the Galaxy Nexus so let's get out of this test ok so the next thing we're to compare is the screen obviously both of these have very high resolution screens the pixel density is higher on the iPhone 4s meaning if you take a little square that's one inch by one inch in you account of the pixels you have a higher count but on the Galaxy Nexus you just get higher resolution more pixels overall we've also got two different screen technologies here we've got Super AMOLED HD from Samsung and apples what they call Retina display which is an IPS LCD panel which is lit differently it's a different screen technology completely than AMOLED which results in in some cases act more accurate colors but you also get washed out blacks blacks aren't truly black and we're going to see that in a second but what's immediately apparent here is that because there are more pixels on the screen on the Galaxy Nexus we can read more at one time but what happens when you get close in on a letter and we did a whole video about the 720p screen on the Galaxy Nexus we'll put a link up in the video so you can check that out but let's get really close and look at the text on the iPhone 4s you can hardly see pixels in fact you really can't see pixels it's just extremely crisp and clear on the Galaxy Nexus it's also extremely crisp and clear but since we're comparing these two devices it's a little bit less so it's the pentile sub pixel configuration makes it so that some pixels are actually shared among each other whereas on the iPhones Retina display each pixel has its own sub pixels just thus generating a smoother looking image so both are very nice in terms of the display but if if you're if you want the best in terms of text on the screen definitely the 4s is the winner there we're going to go to Safari now because we have an image that we're going to show you we're showing you this image because it's got a lot of color you can look at the difference in color but it also has a lot of detail when we zoom in so here we're going to zoom in on the center and you can be the judge of which has better color you could say that the screen on the iPhone 4s might look a little bit washed out some people don't like sort of how whites and blacks are very true on the Super AMOLED screen it's a matter of personal preference and which looks better to you but if we zoom in to the detail Russia zoom in a little bit too much you can see that both do a really good job at recreating the detail it's just a matter of how much you get to see on the screen at one time and the lever level of contrast and color that just looks good to you so both these devices do a very good job we tend to think that the AMOLED screen does a better job at making colors pop because of that high degree of contrast and let's see which of these devices does better with high FPS gaming we've got asphalt 6 loaded on both let's launch them at the same time they're out of program memory all right a little bit faster with the load on the iPhone for us let's get these into a position where we can compare them kind of side by side all right they're both loading get past the screen down the iPhone 4s a little bit faster with the loads touch to continue looks like I missed a touch there okay yeah Mini Cooper always a good always a good time going to Nassau normal race again mini-cooper let's see what else we got here we'll just pick the Mini Cooper hit race at the same time see which gets through with the load first all right here we go Galaxy Nexus faster load there it's getting pretty loud I'm gonna see the video let's just move past these and race it's gonna be a little bit of the different in terms of the controls here we go playing three different games here so if I'm crashing into a lot of things you can probably see why you should be able to get a sense for nicely not steering properly on this side you've got to get a sense for how the FPS look I should probably learn how to drive okay now steering it is impossible to play two games at one time and so the lesson there was don't play two games at once on two different phones it just doesn't work the gaming experience was definitely better on the Galaxy Nexus because you get those really sharp colors because of the great contrast and also because of the larger screen makes the game more immersive the iPhone 4s seemed to be a little bit faster in loading the game and it was tough to tell we'll have to go back and watch the video to see which one seemed to have a higher amount of frames per second which is always important when doing 3d gaming so that was a comparison between the iPhone 4s and the Galaxy Nexus two very different devices with their own strengths and weaknesses we're going to add to this end at the end of this video some 1080p video samples so you can add that to the comparison and determine which of these two devices does a better job at filming high-definition video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and stay tuned for that video comparison right now so we are recording video HD 1080p video on the Galaxy Nexus on the iPhone for us at the exact same time the phones are literally stacked next to each other so you're seeing almost the same thing probably not exactly the same thing we're just looking at some plants right now so you can get a sense for how things look and then we're move to this other plant over here kind of move around a little bit so we are recording video HD 1080p video on the Galaxy Nexus and the iPhone for us at the exact same time the phones are literally stacked next to each other so you're seeing almost the same thing probably not exactly the same thing we're just looking at some plants right now so you can get a sense for how things look and then we're going to move to this other plant over here kind of move around a little bit