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what's up everyone John Breton gherkin TechnoBuffalo here one of the great things about the Samsung Captivate and all of the Galaxy S devices is it's Super AMOLED screen supposedly it's very bright vibrant offers improved battery life and great visibility in the Sun so we're gonna put this thing head-to-head with the retina display on the iPhone and see who comes out on top so you may have heard a lot about the Super AMOLED technology and essentially what that means instead of the touch sensitive mechanism sitting on top of the glass display it's actually integrated into the glass itself so what is that going to mean to you the end-user well it's going to translate into improved battery life better visibility in direct sunlight it supposedly brighter more vibrant colors we're gonna go ahead and check this out there's a quick refresher here the Samsung Captivate for 18 T on the right has a four inch capacitive touchscreen at the resolution of 480 by 800 and right next to it here on the Left we have the iPhone 4th Retina display and a resolution of 960 by 640 on a 3.5 inch screen so we just do that math and multiply them together the captivates going to give us about a three hundred eighty four thousand as opposed to the six hundred and fourteen thousand on the iPhone 4 so you expect that to translate to an improved display on the iPhone but we're going to put that to the test to see if the numbers actually translate so first let me show you that the brightness here is set to the same it's gonna be hard to necessarily translate what the screens look like over camera but I do want to show you there a comparing won't apples to apples so the brightness would be set to about halfway for each I'll go ahead and show you there's the brightness there and we'll go ahead and jump into the same thing here on the captivate and brightness you can see we're just about halfway there as well so go ahead and hit home so first let's see how texts look on each display we're gonna probably look at a lot of websites maybe read some books on here as well let's go ahead and look at a website see how the text is going to look on each so you got TechnoBuffalo here queued up but i'll be doing a full head-to-head comparison to both these devices going over speed and all the specs and of a threat I want to focus just on the screen so you can see sir right off the bat the captivate has sort of a grayish hue to it and that's gonna really come into play as we look at video quality now it doesn't ticularly bother me at all you used to it very quickly but if you're looking for something that maybe looks a bit whiter the iPhones gonna be a better way to go however the screen on the captivate definitely looks a lot brighter so bright is important to you the captivates gonna be a better way to go so let's look here at the screen pixels and sort of what we can see I'm gonna go and zoom out on each sort of as far as we can go and there we go we are zoomed out and just by a pure content standpoint you can see what's shown on both screens so the iPhone if you remember has a resolution of 960 by 640 and the captivate is 480 by 800 so the horizontal resolution is going to be a bit higher and you can sort of see that come into play content that we can see here that sort of cuts off right at that Old Spice ad on the iPhone to actually see almost one and a half more articles here on the captivates you are actually going to get more content be visible on the captivate to go ahead and zoom and let's see how the text looks I'm going to zoom as far as we can here on the iPhone take the first article it's very crisp we have no pixelation the Retina display is very good for that I'll do the same thing here on the captivate and go to the same spot same article and again I'll be doing the full browser comparisons and tests not sort of as far as we can zoom in here I notice again that it looks very clear crisp we have no pixelation very hard to tell the difference to use two displays again you can see a bit of a color hue in the white background on the captivate that you can't see on the iPhone 4 however you notice this when they're next to each other however we have to captivate on its own it's hardly noticeable at all very similar if you go look at two TVs at a big-box store and you see a $5,000 TV stand next to a $2,000 TV right next to each other I definitely have difference but when you get sort of lesser one home you can't notice it and I'm not saying the captivate is a lesser phone or lesser display I just from a color standpoint once it's on its own you really don't recognize it so this isn't gonna come down to a personal preference if you don't mind that color hue you are gonna get much our content on the captivate and when you zoom in you don't get that pixelating effects so text looks fantastic on each this one is really going to be a personal preference let's go ahead and jump on into video and to your video it looks on you twos are both very heavy multimedia devices it's going to take a look and see how each one approaches video so we'll go ahead and use the same YouTube clip on each I was rendered in full 720p will use a one of my unboxing videos for this so we'll go ahead and jump into YouTube here on the captivate and it's going to queue up here a droid unboxing video I did and I'll do the same thing here on the iPhone 4 it'll go ahead and sort of turn this volume down a little bit and you can go ahead and see what the picture looks like on huge it's going take this down and now you can sort of see you video quality and as the video story starts to play you'll notice that they both look very good and very clear and crisp however you still sort of have that color hue in effect on the captivate that you don't have here on the iPhone but it is definitely something to keep in mind video wise they both look fantastic again the captivate looks a little bit brighter at half brightness than the iPhone 4 does and something to sort of keep in mind if I were to turn the brightness all the way up it wouldn't really capture it on camera well the brightness on both are turned up all the way the captivate still does look a bit brighter so you trim to see you hear what video is gonna look like you can sort of see the difference as they both go to play if both played video fantastically I really nothing to go wrong with either device it's nice to see an operating system like Android really embraced media like if you captivating galaxy s s here I really does a fantastic job handling all different types of video so from a Super AMOLED versus a Retina display this one again is a draw because they both look fantastic if you like the brightness and you don't mind the color key to the captivates gonna be great if you're the color cube bothers you and you want to turn the brightness up a little beyond the ionic flume the ionic ones give me a great way to go because kun sphere consumer now has choice in sitting to be in the hands of which you prefer as a total package let's go ahead and try some direct sunlight yeah this looks not going let the video play I'm actually gonna first try before I say direct sunlight I'm gonna try direct light let's say you're in a room with lights overhead so I'm gonna go ahead and turn on overhead lights and we'll see sort of how they look so I now have lights facing directly over the devices ordinarily you have it's fun of glare and in fact you can sort of see the glare a little bit on the iPhone 4 to go ahead and bring the lights even closer hopefully I'm not blinding anybody you can definitely see that there is a bit of glare and reflection on the iPhone before that you're not getting on the cat abate which is sort of interesting I sort of waved my hand over you can see the bit of a reflection there and you can't see it on the cat abate so you can sort of see it there see my finger and you don't necessarily see that on the captivate something to keep in mind now if I'm not playing binge looking after the operating system under this same sort of direct artificial light let's see how that looks so I can go back home the glare here is sort of less visible but again if I do that sort of finger tests you can see there's my finger there and you can see it there as well if I pull the light directly overhead so it's facing right down you can sort of see that lamp on it thinking that right out of the way you do get a bit of glare here and a bit of glare here let's go look at some text and see how text looks under this artificial light well I can tell you well go ahead and zoom in a little bit so text on each is definitely visible and this is one way written sort of that Hugh may sort of come in to to help Lee captivate it actually makes the text a bit more visible in direct sunlight now you're looking at it right here you can start to see the reflection of the lamp and you can see that cannot see my finger there really on the iPhone you can't really see if there either now if I switch these since the lamp is off to the left let's see if there's any straight difference there as well to keep everything fair so you can see the reflection now on the iPhone we move the other way you see the fingers there and you can't see it here as well so the super amoled does perform a bit better indirect artificial light let's go ahead and see how that's going to perform in direct sunlight alright so here we are right in direct summit I've got the light coming in from the left hand side we're in the middle of a big heat wave here in Southern California not a cloud in the sky so there's no sure to sunlight unless you have both perform here they both look very good sail and direct sunlight you can still see a bit of reflection if I have my hand over it with the text on each is definitely visible much more visible than I've seen on different devices the iPhone 3GS for example was not the most visible in direct sunlight on other Android devices for instance the Nexus One I had some trouble with so both these phones look this sort of addressed that issue now what if I switch these around since the Sun is coming in from the left side both appear to be a bit better don't really have any view of your viewing issues which is quite nice so again if you have to make a conclusion about this we flip the text we've looked at video we looked at direct overhead light now direct sunlight both display seem to be very very comparable they both look gorgeous these are displays you have to really see to appreciate it's not really given doing justice on the camera if they both look really really nice and the moral is that you're not gonna go wrong either way it displays your only thing to choose from you really have your work cut out where this is going to have to be a draw both of these just look very good so when I do my head to head of the calculate version of the iPhone I will do a screen round and I'll reference back to this video and that round is going to be a dead even heat because both of these again just look really nice so hats off the Samsung hats off to Apple for putting very very good displays in both of their devices I'm Johnny rat meter from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out their website for all of your technology news 4 exclusive content checking out Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and I will see you in the next video bye bye you