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hi everyone this is anton from pocket now we had the samsung galaxy s2 and we had the samsung galaxy s3 now the samsung galaxy s2 here was launched in 2011 so many of you might still be on a contract and wondering whether it's worth upgrading to the three from the two or maybe you're just asking yourself whether Samsung did a great job with the s3 whether it was worth the anticipation and the buzz in our today's video we're gonna compare them side-by-side make some performance test comparisons benchmarks gaming internet browsing and hopefully we'll manage to answer that question so it's Anton it's pocketnow.com don't go anywhere it's faceoff time so we have the samsung galaxy s2 on the left and the samsung galaxy s3 on the right and we're gonna start this one off with a simple boot up test let's see which one boots up faster so we're gonna try to start them at the same time three two one go and the Samsung Galaxy s3 has already displayed the Samsung animation the s2 is catching up it should only take 15 to 20 seconds and still going and the s3 is first the s2 is not far behind let's see if we have a usable home screen almost so it's fair to say that the Samsung Galaxy s3 wins by 2 or 3 seconds in the boot up test now before we proceed we need to mention that both devices have been reset to their factory defaults and then installation is mirrored on both so whatever you see on the s2 is on the s3 both email accounts wise application wise and they are both connected to the same five gigahertz and router in this room which is three or four feet away now let's talk specification the Samsung Galaxy s2 here was launched in 2000 and and it's running at the moment Android 4.0 ICS but not out of the box but as the official update way it's powered by a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core Samsung Exynos processor it has 1 gigabyte of RAM 16 gigs of storage and it has a wvg 480 by 800 resolution 4.3 inch Super AMOLED plus display the camera at the back is 8 megapixels and the front-facing webcam is 2 megapixels on Android there's TouchWiz 4.0 on the Samsung Galaxy S 2 the Samsung Galaxy s3 has been launched last month and it's powered by a one point 4 gigahertz quad core Exynos processor made by Samsung but this one is running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box with TouchWiz 5.0 the RAM and the storage is the same one gigabyte and 16 gigabytes but the display is an HD display of 720 by 1280 resolution on a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED screen the camera is 8 megapixels just like on the s2 but the front-facing webcam is one of 1.9 megapixels so that specifications let's see how they compare in real life usage so just to be on the fair side here's the task manager on the s2 and the one on the s3 there are no applications running in the background so the memory is clear let's get to the home screen and probably the first thing you want to do after you unbox your phone is set it up so let's see how Google Play Store is launching a little bit faster on the s3 a little bit slower on the s2 let's check email a little bit faster again on the s3 but it's it's very thin let's see messaging again as you can see the s3 is faster by a hairline let's go to maps let's go to our location there we go let's see the camera pretty much the same let's see a third-party application like Spotify pretty much the same let's launch the internet browser pretty much the same again now we're gonna input some URLs into both and get back to you once we're ready to start the test okay so we're gonna go to pocketnow.com and try to see which one goes there faster surprisingly the yellow cs2 looks to be a little bit ahead and they both seem to have finished no not just yet yes they finished at the same time so it's difficult to tell which one is faster let's go to scrolling scrolling is okay on the s3 let's see scrolling on the s2 a little bit of white space until it fills up the buffer but then everything should be fine let's double tap to zoom in double tap to zoom in pinch to zoom zoom out completely and let's try to do this at the same time the galaxy s2 takes a little bit more time in rendering that zoomed in text but then again the difference is very very thin between the two let's go into an article and see exactly again which one goes faster let's go to the unboxing article zoom in a little bit more and tap in stop there and three two one go the s3 is on its way to its first win in the browser test and definitely the s3 won this round but the s2 wasn't that far behind we're going to go to another website so we're gonna pause the video and put the address and get back to you Engadget comm is another image heavy web site it's complex so let's try to see that one and three two one go and we have the mobile website they finished both at the same time let's scroll to the bottom and go to the desktop version I'll try to hit this one at the same time three two one go there we go side by side and it's really hard to tell the difference the s2 is quite right there so there was a difference of maybe up to one second on such a complex website like the engadget.com and as you can see on the s3 it's fully loaded let's take a look on the s2 you see a little bit of white space but it's nothing out of the ordinary until it buffers in the content of the page so let's get back to the home screen and see some benchmarks first benchmark we're going to run is quadrant so let's see that one we hit ok and we're gonna start the benchmark cut out from the video and then get back to you once we have the final results so we're back the test is about to finish the Samsung Galaxy s3 is a little bit ahead a couple of seconds let's see what the results will be yes let's proceed and it's 55 65 so that's 5565 points for the Samsung Galaxy s3 as you can see it's better than the HTC One X and let's see the Galaxy s2 the Galaxy s2 is 4030 so it's approximately 1500 the friends in points let's get back and now let's go to you and to to if I'm pronouncing that right let's try to launch it there we go close this one and we're gonna start the test again and cut back to you once the test is finished there we go and it's finished on the Samsung Galaxy s3 the s2 should catch up just a couple of seconds after that as you can see 1,200 o 41 points for the galaxy s3 and the galaxy s2 is still testing but it should finish in a couple of seconds and there it goes six thousand and sixty points so it's half of the score the galaxy s3 managed to achieve and the biggest difference is in CPU 2950 2965 compared to 7151 GPU is around the same I'm not sure the readings are right because this is a fairly new processor and the application might have not been updated gram is faster on the s3 and i/o operation is also faster now for the last test benchmark let's go to smart bench 2012 and launch it at the same time and we're gonna run smart bench right now and the s3 has finished let's see the scores I will need to zoom in on this there we go it's 3990 with 16 15 as you can see right here and the s2 finished - and this one 2605 1893 let's see both of them close up come on focus that's right those are your scores so this was the benchmark test let's go and see some gaming now for gaming we have selected GTA 3 so let's try to run that at the same time on both of them there they go these are actually intro videos ok let's try to skip both of these videos at the same time and this time the s2 was a little bit faster let's tap to continue tap again to continue and again and let's try to start the game at the same time of course it's gonna be a new game the s3 looks faster but they're the same really the same it's a difference very small difference now let's see the let's turn the volume down on this one and let's see how the s2 is doing skip the video you have to excuse me for bad playing because another gamer they're saying but let's see if I managed to get into this car and drive it around a little bit not backwards but forwards I can assure you that my real-life driving skills are better you'll have to take my word for that it's looking to be fluid so there's no hiccups right here everything is buttery smooth as you would expect from even a dual core from like the Samsung Galaxy s2 okay a little bit of off-road driving and them I just crashed the car okay so this was the s2 let's take a look at the s3 let's get this video right here and let's try to do the same hopefully with better driving skills let's turn the volume back on okay let's get inside the car so it's fluid also we can't really see the friends but there's nothing really to talk about right here they are performing well both of them what we might try to see it is let's try to get back into a new game and see if we can find some differences in textures new game yes and yes and they're loading let's keep the video here skip the video here let's try to zoom in a little bit more on the screens and we're interested in textures I'll try to bring this one up for a better contrast but textures are looking smooth right here if you see the shoulder of the guy and the car and let's see the textures and if there's anything to anti Elias but textures are looking the same so gameplay wise at least on this game they are both performing at the same level so there's no clear winner here let's get back to the home screen and let's see what else we can do to compare these two devices video streaming and especially from YouTube because you'll be probably doing lots of YouTube video viewing on your phone let's see which one of these performs better we're not interested in load times we're interested in the amount of time it takes these two devices to buffer and play a video let's go into landscape because this way they will go into full-screen mode once the video is buffered and we'll try to take a look at the same video at the same time so in three two one go yes that's me and so much of me might hurt as you could see they are performing head to head with no clear winner at all one more thing we can do is to test out the speeds on these devices but we are using a Wi-Fi router which is a five gigahertz and router and we're gonna launch the test not at the same time because we don't want to take the bandwidth from the other phone so let's go with ds2 first this should only take a couple of seconds 36 634 and you'll see those there and yes three it's faster so probably the networking Wi-Fi networking solution used in the s3 is somewhat better than the one on the s2 does this count probably not but since we are all geeks we want to see the differences so this was a short look at the Samsung Galaxy s2 versus the samsung galaxy s3 is the s3 a better phone yes does it smoke the s2 well in terms of raw horsepower and on paper yes in terms of day to day use it no so if you're using your phone to send emails catch up with your friends and social networks listen to some songs over Spotify or Pandora watch youtube videos or have occasional games played on your phone then you should be very well fine with the Samsung Galaxy s2 the Samsung Galaxy s3 really shines in those games which take advantage of the HD screen so this is 720 by 1280 and probably that's where the new SOC as in CPU plus GPU kick in if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up this was on time front pocket now and stay glued to pocketnow.com we will have more regarding the Samsung Galaxy s3 thank you very much for watching