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hey guys it's Jeff Farina with pocketnow.com as you may have already seen Daniel Webster gave us some great coverage on the Samsung Galaxy yes including his final review and now I'm also gonna compare the Samsung Galaxy S to my beloved HTC EVO the first video is going to be a software review followed by a hardware review yet another software overview basically comparing the speed of the Evo versus the speed of the Galaxy S as well as the general hardware makeup so let's go ahead and get started hi everybody we're back and as you see here we have the HTC EVO on the left in the samsung galaxy s on the right and one of the first tests that I'm gonna run is actually the startup time the Evo takes quite a long time to start up in my opinion so let's see which one of these starts up faster I'm gonna pick them both up and just kind of town three one two three and they're off now one of the I said one of the things that I have noticed is the Evo does take quite some time to turn on in my opinion it'll get by this menu once it does it'll sit on the 4G logo for Sprint for quite a long time galaxy s in started showing its nice little animation video looks like the Galaxy S is gonna pull ahead by a far margin now this may have something to do with the fact you know the hummingbird processor versus the Snapdragon processor but also does have to be part of the bloatware that the Evo has to start up you know being on Sprint has to load the Sprint navigation the Sprint TV all that fun stuff whereas the galaxy s technically does not have to do that so the galaxy s is now fully working and you see here and the Evo is still waiting we're still on the white splash screen so that's not a good sign that's exciting that you know the Evo the Snapdragon may not perform as well as we thought at least on the startup process so now it's starting to go and again it's gonna sit in the 4G logo for a little bit alright and the Evo is finally booted up it's still initializing the SD card as you can see here the Mario background it's currently frozen while it is initializing that card but I would say the Galaxy beat it by about a minute minute and a half that's pretty bad on the Evo side so I would say in that sense hummingbird definitely shows off and once again the blow wear from Sprint could have a lot to do with that it could also be the fact that sense has to love HTC Sense which is a skin for Android granted the Galaxy S does have a skin on the injury as well from Samsung but it does seem like it's a little lighter so that could have a lot to do with it alright so the next text we're gonna run is going to be just a browser comparison we're gonna go to your pocket now calm on both Lee's at the same time so I'm gonna do here is I'm going to start the browser and this one is for some reason in landscape mode now they should be in my recent history all right so now what we're gonna do is gonna start both days at the same exact time and we'll see which one is faster so pretty close I'd say this based on the status bars the Evo was winning but that doesn't always mean it all right so the Evo did load that faster mind you the Evo also did load the flash now technically the Evo was still loading a loader a few extra things passed there so all in all the galaxy did load a little faster because the Evo had a load a few scripts after the fact but something to keep in mind here is Eva loaded the flash as you can see up here the banner ad do you have a mission in life is not showing up on the galaxy browser these are the stock browsers so I could use a different browser and possibly get the flash but once again this is loading flash by default whereas the galaxy s is not alright now I'm just giving you a basic run-through of each of the phones menu systems the Evo uses HTC Sense and actually has this up arrow to bring you to your menu scrolling feature where all of your apps will be so on and so forth whereas the Galaxy S has the applications button here and you press this and it will actually scroll left and right so it's gonna give you the same functionality a different setup though and you know kind of it's gonna be your own personal preference this one again will scroll vertically this will go horizontally the galaxy s and this menu Scrolls much much smoother almost like the iPhone in my opinion it's very smooth or as this seems a little choppy whatever you may think going into the settings menu here the settings are going to be the exact same for the most part so the skin really doesn't take out any of the features however you will see some of these icons and the left on the Evo wears you really don't have those you know bright and flashy icons on the Galaxy S again I'll let you make your own judgment here as far as if you think the Evo is choppy or smooth here whereas the galaxy in my opinion a little smoother so again I'll let you make your own opinion there I'll reserve my judgment on that sense but the next video I'm gonna show you is really gonna kind of give an in-depth look at the Google Maps application we're actually gonna see which one actually locks faster on the GPS standpoint in the software standpoint we're also gonna take a look at some of the gaming asphalt 5 comes on the Galaxy S and I do have it on my Evo so we're gonna see which one performs laughter there once again this does use the HTC Sense whereas the Galaxy S uses Samsung's little own skin that they have on there as well so this menus a little different here but you can still download these same apps from the Android Market that you could be for but now you also have the benefit of these samsung apps as well so once again guys be sure to stay tuned for the next videos that are coming up we're gonna have a little bit of a showdown on the hardware between these two guys between the Evo and the Galaxy S as well as the part two of the software comparison between these two devices and you guys can make your own opinions of you know which one you think is a better phone if you're trying to make that decision so be sure as always to give us a thumbs up here feel free to comment and ask any questions you have and stay tuned thanks guys