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hey guys it's brendham in a minute from pocketnow.com in this video we're going to compare the nexus 4 with the iPhone 5 let's get to it okay let's get started we're going to talk about hardware then we're going to do some speed tests talk about the camera really do a full suite of comparisons here first let's start off with the hardware these devices couldn't look any more different the iPhone 5 has a smaller screen than the Nexus 4 at 4 inches and 11 66 by 640 resolution making for a PPI a pixel density of 324 pixels the Nexus 4 on the other hand has a higher resolution display 1280 down by 768 across at 4.7 inches making for a PPI of 320 so they're about 4 PPI away from one another you can't see pixels on either screen once you get above that 300 threshold you just can't see pixels and both have a very high quality display something to note though is that the iPhone 5 cannot display true HD content because the resolution is just not high enough so if you're on YouTube or if you're watching an HD movie it's down scaling it to fit on the 11 66 by 640 display whereas natively on the Nexus 4 you can play 720p video although as we're going to see shortly you do get small black bars because the resolution is a little bit greater than 1280 by 720 unlike the Nexus the Galaxy Nexus and the Samsung Galaxy s3 and so forth so let's take a look at the other hardware two different design philosophies here we've got glass and glass on the Nexus 4 which interestingly is is taken from the previous iPhone the iPhone 4s and the iPhone 4 which had glass on the front and the back it's beautiful its elegant and it's especially striking on the nexus 4 because look at these little circles there is a circle placed along every millimeter or so and some of them sort of turn on when you when you flip it so where you think there are no little circles and you turn it into the light they kind of glisten it's just a beautiful beautiful effect the downside with glass as we learned from the iPhone 4 and 4s having glass on both sides means is if you drop your phone your more likely to crack the back because now you have glass on the front and the back and also glass can be as you can see here a fingerprint magnet so you might want to get a case for your Nexus 4's surrounding the Nexus 4 we've got soft touch plastic here which gives it a nice in hand feel it is thicker though than the iPhone 5 and heavier so in terms of weight we're talking about 139 grams on the Nexus 4 112 grams on the iPhone 5 some people think that the iPhone 5 feels a little bit dainty some people like a little bit more meat to their phone but there's no doubt about it that the iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone out there right now it's also one of the most beautiful we've got this really nice beveled edge we've got metal on the back these tiny pieces of glass on the top and the bottom but you really don't have to worry about cracking them because if you trap your phone it's probably going to Nick an edge here and unfortunately this metal is very soft as we found out in fact you could probably see some Nicks in here already I haven't used this phone for that long both of these phones really need a case you know the nicer the phone design is that the better the materials the more you're going to want to use a case because once you get a crack or a scratch it's just it's pretty upsetting so very thin design here on the iPhone 5 with the metal and the glass and a striking design here on the Nexus 4 with this really awesome effect here on the back now let's talk about specifications the iPhone 5 is the Apple a6 dual core chip running at about one to 1.2 gigahertz it's got a gigabyte of RAM and it comes in storage sizes of 16 32 and 64 no storage obviously you never get expandable storage on an iPhone here in the Nexus 4 we get the Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro quad-core CPU this CPU has shown to be the fastest CPU in all of our tests and we're going to see some day-to-day performance tests and see if it's true when we browse the web when we open apps and so forth we also get 2 gigabytes of RAM so double the amount of RAM and we get storage options of 8 and 16 gigabytes so less than the iPhone 5 and there is no storage available on this guy unfortunately that seems to be the trend going forward is that we're not going to have storage options because it makes it easier to manufacture but unfortunately then you get smaller capacities so the first thing we're going to do is boot these two up see which one starts up first so we've got a power button on the top power button on the side samsung style even though this is an LG phone one two three press press and found a vibration on both Google Apple all right let's see what happens see which gets to the lockscreen first got the Nexus logo of the Apple logo okay the Nexus for one the iPhone 5 is up there there comes okay so the Nexus 4 was faster there now I want to compare screen quality in order to do this we're going to Mac screen brightness out at a hundred percent on both so let's go into brightness over here and display over here and then brightness and hopefully this doesn't blow out of the camera because it's going to be a lot of brightness okay so not both on a hundred percent screen brightness you obviously can see that there's a lot more screen area here on the Nexus 4 but also you can note that it's not that much taller in terms of the actual usable screen space it's about the same as on the iPhone 5 because we've got these dedicated Android buttons here so let's go into the web browser real quick and bring up a picture on both and see if we can tell a difference in terms of screen quality before we run into 0 before both of these devices go to 0% battery because they're on maximum screen brightness so we're going to go to the web ok now right off the bat here we are on Google and we have a white page and what you can see is that the white on the iPhone 5 is definitely wider you get a much warmer color temperature here on the nexus 4 so let's go over to images and this is not really speed test we're going to do a speed test soon this is just to see the difference in screen quality so now we're going to search for Beach okay we have a variety of beach scenes here we're looking for color naturalness if that's a word we want to see which of these devices has more true-to-life colors and we're going to load up both of these we're starting a kind of a zoomed out view can move that over and so what we see is that warmer color temperature really translates when you're looking over at pictures here on the nexus 4 you can see the sky is warmer the sunset is a little bit more orange although you could say equally then the iPhone 5 is a little too cool maybe it's a little bit too blue but both look quite good if you're just looking at photos here and let's go back and let's click on this let's check out the color of the water so here on this water scene it looks like the iPhone 5s doing a little bit of a better job maybe in terms of making the blue look more blue over here it looks a little bit green because when you add an orangey color to the mix with a warmer screen things kind of look less blue now another consideration when comparing these two screens is that the Nexus 4 is higher resolution so when you're browsing the web does that translate into seeing more on the screen at one time and yes it does here we are on the pocket now mobile site let's get the address bar out of the way on both it's not going to hide there and we can see more of more content here on the nexus 4 so here it's cut off on this Nokia story but you can see the entire Nokia story on the nexus 4 so obviously higher resolution means you can see more on the screen at one time and that especially holds true here when you're comparing the iPhone 5 with the Nexus 4 next up let's see how third-party apps launch we're going to see which open apps faster start with Facebook one two three go and updating nexus 4 was slightly faster the iPhone 5 was just clearing up there let's open the camera very important test because you want to be there for that special moment one two three boom okay that was inconclusive that was exactly equal let's try it again that was exactly equal okay let's try Twitter one two three Twitter okay faster on the Nexus 4 let's try bad biggies one two three bet Biggie's faster right off the bat for the iPhone 5 and yep definitely faster on the iPhone 5 there and let's check out Spotify one two three Spotify okay completely equal their note no difference they both open at the exact same time so pretty much a tie in terms of launching third party and first party apps let's go into the browser and see which loads page is faster that's extremely important so we're going to go right into Safari here well we've already got pocket now open here so let's start there we'll go to the bottom of the page and this will allow you to zoom in but this has zoom locked I know the desktop version try to do it at the exact same time one two three go so lots of images here a ton of stuff to load or over Wi-Fi on both iPhone 5 finished first or did it yes it did finish first and the Nexus 4 came in after that scrolling down the page on the iPhone 5 pretty clear no white spaces let's see we get on the Nexus 4 again no white spaces let's pinch to zoom and see which clears up text faster one two three release that was exactly equal okay we're seeing that a lot these are very very competitive devices both top of their game so we're going to click on this story see which gets there first as they slide around on the table and we're watching the progress bar progress bar iPhone 5 finish first Nexus 4 coming in a few seconds later but of course the page is usable and let's check out how long it takes to load this YouTube video okay let's see completely equal let's try to go fullscreen on these guys here and so you can kind of see what I meant about the bars on the nexus 4 so on the nexus 4 here you are getting some black bars here on the top and the bottom they're very difficult to see but that's what happens because the resolution is higher than then 720p HD on the iPhone 5 we're down scaling here from high-definition and you really can't tell I mean they both look about the same in fact the actual viewing area of the video on both is about the same because of the UI elements on the nexus 4 we're going to go into youtube shortly and compare rendering times for HD video let's go back and do a little bit more on the web let's go to the verge alright let's go 1 2 3 go ok next is 4 got there first is ready and waiting let's go down to the full site here 1 2 3 go and they're off and the iPhone 5 one there let's double tap to zoom in this time stead of pinching zoom tap tap completely equal no difference let's zoom in a lot more and release they cleared up at the exact same time and I got to say that text on both of these looks really really good I mean when you get above the 300 PPI threshold text is just razor sharp you cannot see pixels on the nexus 4 or on the iPhone 5 so in terms of web browsing performance it looks like the iPhone 5 is a little bit faster and and to be honest we kind of think that's because of the Chrome browser the Chrome browser has a lot of cool features on Android but it's not the fastest browser and Google has taken it out of beta as if it's done but we really think that chrome is not done that there are still further performance enhancements to be made to this browser and that we kind of wish that Google had included the stock Android browser with the nexus 4 so let's go to the YouTube app and check out video so of course here often the iPhone 5 the YouTube app hasn't been updated for the full iPhone 5 screen which is disappointing but we'll work with it so let's click on YouTube one two three go loaded faster on the iPhone 5 go into the Comedy category that's fascinating and let's pick again the sliding around on the table a little bit let's pick this video here so we're click on see which loads it faster play a little bit faster there on the iPhone 5 but here's really where the the nexus 4 screen really shines because we're watching native 720p video it's taking up the full frame the colors look great the saturation is fantastic and just makes for a much better viewing experience than this of course when we get the update for the iPhone 5 YouTube app it'll fill the entire frame but again we're going to be down sampling from Full HD and let's check out voice assistance here so we're going to do Siri and Google Voice when is Thanksgiving this year Thanksgiving Thanksgiving exactly at the similar 22nd time 2012 amazing when does Christmas take place next year Christmas is on Wednesday it's December 25th exactly 18 the same time now what about photo-quality a lot of people complained about the Galaxy Nexus is 5 megapixel camera how it really didn't take great shots and so let's compare some pictures that we took with the iPhone 5 and then with the Nexus 4 kind of side-by-side and we have to say you can be the judge for yourself that the iPhone 5 it does take better photos it's better in low light it's also better close-up it has an easier time focusing so we definitely get the points there too the iPhone 5 just in terms of share photo quality now finishing up here let's talk about pricing and availability that's very important the iPhone 5 is available on three carriers with LTE the prices range from $1.99 to $2.99 to 399 depending on whether you want 16 32 or 64 gigabytes of storage the nexus 4 if you can get it it's a still up for pre-order or its sold out early is available for 299 bucks or 349 dollars off contract unlocked which means you can use it on any GSM carrier you don't have to sign a two-year contract you only get HSPA+ data speeds which are about 1/2 or 1/3 the speed that you get over LTE and your storage configurations are either 8 gigabyte or 16 gigabytes the iPhone 5 off contract is extremely expensive 600 plus another fee to unlock the phones here at 700 bucks or so for a new iPhone 5 that is unlocked that you want to use on any carrier and of course you won't get LTE speeds with an unlocked iPhone 5 because AT&T prepaid for example doesn't let you do LTE yet so if you want an unlocked phone for the cheapest amount of money really the Nexus 4 is a no-brainer but if you want a two-year contract carrier you want to get the LTE speeds and lock in the iPhone 5 is a clear choice there so the iPhone 5 and the Nexus 4 are both best-in-class devices they both have really good screens they have fantastic day to day performance and solid battery life it's just a matter of whether you want to buy into Android or iOS it also matters on whether you want to sign it to your contractor maybe do prepaid the choice is really up to you and hopefully this video helped you decide between the two they're both really really great capable phones do you like this video please give us a thumbs up and watch out for more comparisons with the Nexus 4 coming up soon that's it for now