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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocket now calm in this video we're gonna compare and throw a jelly bean on the Galaxy Nexus with iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 let's get to it so we're going to cover 6 different areas in this comparison video we're gonna cover home screens notifications app stores cloud services built-in apps and voice services obviously these are two very different platforms and they've changed and evolved little by little over time and today they have grown kind of even further apart and yet in some ways they've grown closer together like in notifications so let's start off by unlocking both devices and what you're going to notice right off the bat is that here on the Galaxy Nexus I have no unlock screen you have that choice in Android you can have slide to unlock you can have pin unlock pattern unlock face unlock or no unlock at all or you can get a third party app that allows you to overtake the built-in unlock screen really have it customized however you want and iOS 6 all you can do is have a slide to unlock or a pin unlock some like care some might not it's just a lock screen just pointing out the differences here so one of the hallmarks of Android has always been its customized ability in terms of widgets on the home screen whereas iOS 6 and iOS 5 and I was four and three and two and one have always been about icons although in a previous generation of iOS iOS 5 Apple added two widgets to the notification shade we're going to talk about that in a second so of course an Android you know this you can take a wide variety of widgets thousands of widgets that you can download you can customize them you can resize them and they can provide real life functionality on your home screens so that you don't always have to go in and out of apps which is what you have to do in iOS so of course an iOS and Android just like you've been able to do for a while you can create folders although folders open a lot faster in Android so for example if we make a new folder here look at the difference here in Android they open instantly iOS you get that fancy animation what you want it or not okay so that's homescreens that's been the same story for a while now something that's changed in iOS 6 and jelly beans the notification shade one of the strengths of Android has always been this Notification Center or notification shade they really named never came up with a brilliant name for it where you can pull down and you can see a lot of information at your fingertips and in Ice Cream Sandwich they added the ability to swipe off individual notifications and in jellybean they added sort of live notifications and so if you have a missed call it will say call back if you've got some email messages you can sort of see many previews right on the screen here which really adds a lot of usability to your notification shade and of course you can clear all your notifications with one press in iOS 6 now you have some new options in the notification shade you can tap to tweet or tap to add a Facebook post which is a really great idea if you really are busy on social networks there's two new widgets well they're not really new for iOS 6 they've been there since iOS 5 weather and stocks that's the only two widgets you can add the world has been crying and calling out for developers to be able to tap into this because how cool would it be if you could have say a words with friends widget or or think of your favorite app showing live information up there speaking of words with friends it looks like it's my move and this is how iOS 6 does notifications you cannot swipe them off the screen if you tap on them you will go right into that area and it will disappear if you action on it the trouble is with the notifications and iOS 6 is that if you have four mail messages and you want to only swipe away two of them you cannot do that it's all-or-nothing you hit the X this tiny X which is impossible to hear you hit you hit it twice and then it moves off the screen so notifications are still superior and Android in fact I spend a lot of time in the notification chain in andra just because it's kind of this real center hub that acts on my terms and kind of acts as a rolling to-do list for what I need to action on next thing what I talk about here is the App Store so we're going to the Play Store and over here in the iOS App Store and one thing that Apple does differently compared to Android is that Apple has different stores this is the App Store if you want to go to the iTunes Store that's a completely different place to go you go into here this is where you go for your books and for your movies well actually that's where you go for your movies and for your TV shows and music and then if you want to download a book and I bought Gora or a newspaper you go into newsstand yet another store so really lots of different places and you could say that this is actually part of the main store but that's not the parent and Android brilliantly Google has put everything under one roof apps music magazines movies and TV shows and books everything is within one one spot new for iOS 6 is a redesigned app store and let's compare the search experience we're gonna go here search and search and we are going to type Facebook where's just start typing faizal's compare the search experiences so here in jelly bean the second result is the actual Facebook match so you can go directly towards that or you can go into search results over here on the iPhone you hit Facebook and it takes you to the search results and you can only see now in iOS 6 you can only see one item at a time so if you get a so if you get results with 75 apps you're gonna be swiping a lot as you can see there are seven thousand three hundred and eleven apps here that I have to scroll through to see them there's no way to change the display but if we were to go to the basic Facebook search results here you just scroll down the screen scroll down and just flip through but some may say that now in iOS 6 when you actually tap on the app it's an improved user interface so we've got these nice little screenshots here everything seems to be colored differently there's gray backgrounds and white backgrounds and different tabs here just a really nice display a really spur stuff app store in iOS 6 although I've got to say that the Google Play Store is faster especially to find things because everything is under one roof and it seems to be just easier to navigate especially if you're searching through a lot of applications okay so now let's talk about cloud services this is idea of storing things in the cloud so you don't always have to back them up and so thats things are synchronous across multiple devices iCloud is expanded in iOS 6 as you can see these are all the things you can synchronize documents and photos photo stream of course the basic mail contacts counter reminders things that you've been able to do in android but they've had things like notes passbook and of course you can do a backup right from your device every day now in Android there's not that much flexibility in terms of cloud options offered by Google but there's a third-party app to do everything for example you can get Dropbox to act like photo stream so you take a picture on your Galaxy Nexus or any Android phone that you might be using and it will go into the Dropbox cloud it'll show up on your your Android tablet on your PC on your Mac whatever you have it's the same exact thing or notes there's ever notes for for Android it does the exact same thing as notes here but some might say in an even more powerful way so an Android is kind of plug and play you you have to download different apps to do different things and those particular third-party apps might very well be more powerful than what you get in iCloud but the great thing about iCloud is that everything is here everything works very well sometimes there's an outage but Apple has done a great job with making iCloud a one-stop solution for backing up your data and keeping it synchronized across multiple devices ok now let's talk about web browsers of course on both of these devices you can get third-party web browsers like opera like Chrome but let's just talk about the built in stock browser so let's open them at the same time open a little bit faster here in iOS 6 and from here you get a very similar experience at the end of the day you've got a tabs button here's a tabs button down here you open up your bookmarks kind of with an extra press you press the three dots and then you go to bookmarks whereas in iOS 6 you just press bookmarks and there you go so speaking of which let's actually just go to pocketnow.com and see you know these browsers display the page perhaps a little bit differently they go at the same time although this is not a speed test necessarily because these have very different internals and we're just comparing the kind of experiences of the operating system so here we go they're coming through and if it matters the iphone5 finished first we found the iPhone 5 so far to beat out every device we've tested this against even the quad-core Galaxy s3 so that is very impressive ok they're both done yet similar browsing experience in typical iOS fashion the scrolling is a little bit notchy a little bit slower in other words in jelly bean you can do one flick go all the way to the bottom all the way at the top that's just not really possible in iOS 6 so we zoom in zoom in let's let go clears up faster here in iOS 6 and let's check out how landscape looks so here we are in landscape we both get pretty full screen views here there's an option to hide the the status bar at the top of the screen but in iOS 6 now you have this full screen view except for when you get to the top of the screen then you actually see the information there something they didn't do in iOS 6 which is frustrating is that they didn't combine the URL bar with the search bar they still have it over here and in Android this top bar doubles as a search bar so you don't have to choose between whether you put a search here or just put it in the generic URL bar so very good web browsing performance in both jellybean does that make huge strides in making the device devices that run the operating system feel a lot faster and they certainly succeeded in doing so finally let's compare voice services we've Google now with jellybean and we've got Siri with iOS 6 they're different because who will not actually goes a step further by suggesting things for you it'll tell you how long it'll take to drive back home before you drive back home it'll start to remember where you live where you work it can bring up relevant context sensitive information which is great Siri is just something that you have to initiate for it to do anything but let's test it out what's the weather going to be tomorrow okay faster here on the Galaxy Nexus in that case we get a multi-day forecast in both cases which is nice let's let's ask it something else set alarm for 7:00 a.m. tomorrow so iron alarms and reminders only support time of day but not dates okay so there's a limitation let's do something else what's 4000 divided by 286 all right Android got it faster seems that I Oh s6 is is having a little trouble here overall Google now is a lot more responsive and more consistent than Siri it seems to always work and not only does it always work but you can speak really fast and it converts it extremely quickly it looks like a total Siri fail here we're not even going to let it finish so we're just going to stop it where it is but let's do one more test how old is Mitt Romney 65 years old beautiful nice little picture date of birth over here in iOS 6 we get kind of a printout from WolframAlpha still tells you how old he is right yep 65 years 6 months and 11 days and it was a little bit slower but there are obviously limitations to what Google now can do like it cannot access certain part of your phones like Siri can so both of these operating systems are very different it would seem that Android is more progressive it helps you in a lot of ways get things done more quickly with fewer steps whereas iOS 6 is what you see what you get it is familiar it is stable it is reliable which is not to say that Android is not reliable in fact with jellybean something dramatic has changed jellybean suddenly has brought the operating system to the level of the reliability and the smoothness of iOS there I say that so it's it's it's getting very close in terms of which operating system provides the smoothest best most reliable experience it's just a matter of how much you want to customize and how much you want to live in different ecosystems versus just apples ecosystem so really it's up to you there are particular features that you want us to compare of these two great operating systems let us know in the comments and we'll do our best to put up the follow-up video 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