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everybody it's Craig and I'm here with another pocket now face off this time Samsung Galaxy S 2 versus Apple's iPhone 4s all righty let's kick off our face-off featuring the samsung galaxy s2 an Apple iPhone 4s first up we're gonna run through the specs on both of our combatants then we're gonna do our unofficial speed test take a look at voice command on both throw a little gaming extravaganza our browser comparison and last but not least attach to the back end of this video I'll have a video sampling from each of our two contestants today so make sure you stick around for that all right let's kick this off Samsung Galaxy S 2 weighs in at 116 grams it sports a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED plus capacitive display with a resolution of 480 by 800 also offers Gorilla Glass upper left-hand corner 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls below the display you've got two touch sensitive keys main menu key back key and one physical home key on the back is an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus LED flash video capture is 1080p at 30 frames per second battery underneath the battery cover 1650 milliamp power battery rated at 8 hours and 40 minutes of talk time taking a look around up on top 3nf millimeter headphone jack along with a microphone on the right hand side is the power button on the bottom of the other microphone micro USB port on the left hand side is a volume rocker in the lower right hand corner you can see the phone speaker alright apples i phone 4s wasted in 140 grams so definitely heavier the 2 offers a 3.5 inch TFT backlit LCD display resolution is 640 by 960 display itself a scratch-resistant upper-left center you've got a front-facing VGA camera for video calls and below display of one physical key home key on the back again we have an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus LED flash video capture again is 1080p at 30 frames per second batteries all smaller 1430 milliamp hour battery rated at 8 hours of talktime hi a quick look around up on top is the turn off millimeter headphone jack alone with the power lock key on the right hand sides that cover for the SIM card slot on the bottom is a speaker microphone as well as the port for charging syncing at transferring data and on the left hand side you've got your two volume buttons up and down as well as the mute switch alright let's talk a little bit about processors on these bad boys on the Galaxy S 2 if you've got the 1.2 gigahertz dual core Exynos processor from Samsung on the iPhone 4s you've got the one gigahertz a 5 apple dual-core processor as far as memory Galaxy s2 comes to version 16 and 32 gigabytes of internal storage total stores can be expanded additional 32 gigabytes to the use of a micro SD card iPhone 4s comes in three models 16 32 and 64 gigabytes of internal storage ram galaxy s2 is 1 gigabyte of RAM iPhone 4s 512 megabytes of RAM as far as Wi-Fi a total of an ABG and n support for DLNA HDMI on the galaxy s2 on the iPhone 4s 802 11 B G and n as far as Bluetooth Galaxy S 2 version 3 with support for a2dp and high-speed data transfer iPhone 4s first smartphone out there with Bluetooth version 4.0 with support for a2dp both phones have GPS support for a GPS both phones can be used as Wi-Fi hotspots operating system on the galaxy s 2 Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread on the iPhone 4s its iOS 5 and the user interface on the galaxy s 2 is Samsung's TouchWiz 4.0 user interface on the iPhone 4s I'm going to say is Apple's iOS 5 it's going to fire up our unofficial speed test we're going to hold down the home key here on the galaxy s 2 and open up the task manager well exit all tasks we're going to ram and we'll clear all the memory and we've got that set so now we're going to go to push twice on the home key we'll hold down on one of the application shortcuts and we'll push the little red dots until we get to the end and we're done on both what do you say we kick this off with calendar it look like the Galaxy S 2 to me but it's really really hard to tell here's what I know that iPhone 4s awareness to contacts bow I thought for sure the galaxy or the iPhone 4s with wind contacts I'm surprised let's try them apps that definitely seem to be the galaxy as to as well let's go to let's try the markets on both even though they're different that was the galaxy s2 let's try a gmail on both look like a dead heat to me try messaging on both that again looked like a dead heat and I was looking at just them opening I know the iPhone 4s brought up a blank text message to start with so a little bit different let's try the cameras on both again once the iPhone 4s gets done with all its animation I don't know if it's quicker than the GS 2 not honestly alright let's try let's go over to Netflix try third-party again they're both rowing out the same Wi-Fi network now it shows that this is loaded but it really isn't there it just finished so that was definitely the galaxy s2 all right let's try spooling up a couple of videos little mi5 and if you for watch this show I'm thoroughly addicted to it now and it looks like the Galaxy S 2 is first to spool it up right behind it iPhone 4s again as you can see the Wi-Fi connectivity for both is not very good so I think it's well obviously it's an even race because it running off the books in both off the same Wi-Fi network sorry but there's a look at our unofficial speed testing I have to say it seemed to me that the Galaxy S 2 is a bit quicker than the iPhone 4s but not by heck of a lot next up little artificial intelligence navigate to Starbucks I found 14 places matching Starbucks ha here are directions to Starbucks add Southwest on st. Thomas caught on a Broadway so the Galaxy S 2 gives you a voice guy to turn-by-turn navigation whereas the iPhone 4s gives you a route remind me in 30 minutes to call Craig here's your reminder shall I create it meeting October 18th 2 p.m. you don't have anything on your calendar for tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. shall I create it yes text Craig I'll see you at the meeting tomorrow at 4:00 here's your message to crank Gillespie how much is 20% of four hundred and eighty five divided by six answer your question as you can see they both came up with sixteen point one six listen to Michael Jackson I couldn't find Michael Jackson in your music all right four I gave me today we're gonna take a look at asphalt six alright let's ramp up today's PocketNow face-off between the samsung galaxy is to an iphone for us with our browser comparison I've got the history cleared on both cache cleared um both both routes the same Wi-Fi network and I've shut down the I want to want to say a flash on the galaxy s2 let's kick this off we'll head over to Engadget start it up and we're off and it looks like it's going to be pretty close come on iPhone for us I know you're quick here we go iPhone 4 Galaxy S 2 is nope not quite done nope galaxy s2 took it because you can see that iPhone 4s is still loading up at the top very tricky marketing by Apple it makes it look as if it's fully loaded when it actually isn't you can see just how smooth the galaxy s2 is and you can see how smooth the iPhone 4 is both very very smooth let's go down here we'll double tap to zoom in on both so you can take a look the text again you've got the Retina display on the iPhone 4s and Super AMOLED plus the galaxy s2 pinch-to-zoom they're both very sensitive as you can see both to a great job double tap to zoom all the way out and you're rendering issues doesn't look like it both of them did a great job although it no you know I don't see this ad on the galaxy s2 and it shows here on the iPhone 4s so that is one rendering issue on the galaxy s2 and maybe that's why it was quicker don't know for sure but what do you say we head over to the mothership so we're looking for smartphone reviews on both there we go and we're off and again we're headed the mobile site on both and that was the iPhone 4s was their first let's go down the bottom and head to the main site and we're off I think that was pretty close so we've got to win from each iPhone 4s one the mobile site galaxy s2 one the fully engaged site now we're at pocketnow.com and we're waiting for things to load see the iPhone 4s says it's done but it's not obviously because it's less unloaded this galaxy s2 is still loading galaxy s2 is actually done iPhone 4s again is still loading it just finished so that's some pretty tricky marketing you got to watch those Apple people they know how to market better than anybody on the face of the planet all right let's DoubleTap zoom in any issues everybody still seems relatively smooth no lag from anybody looks good alright let's take a look at this and then we're off and again we've got our little thank you that it's done when it's not we'll watch this up here when that stops spinning we know it's loaded so it's not that it can't win or not that it's not I guess it can't galaxy s2 is finished and very smooth again so there we go both I got to be definitely to the quickest browsers on smartphones available and two of the best without a doubt the text is a bit small on the ios5 iPhone 4s when browsing but you've got a three-and-a-half inch display versus a 4.3 inch display so I guess that's to be expected so there's a look or a comparison between the two browsers on our combatants Samsung Galaxy s2 and iPhone 4s don't forget to stick around for the video 1080p full-hd video comparison coming up next there's Ben Craig for Pocket now I hope it's been helpful take care you hmm