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what's up everyone John Randolph and TechnoBuffalo here with another smartphone Smackdown this time we've got the iPhone 4 and the Challenger the new kid on the block the Samsung built Nexus S we're gonna put these two head-to-head into five round tests and see who's gathering so there are obviously a ton of topics that we can cover I'm gonna try and cover the most important and most salient and try and get through all of this in an under six minute comparison so we're going to talk about speed text entry screen browser and some extras and see if we can declare a winner at the end both of these phones manage memory very differently but let me show you that all the applications have been cleared iPhone nothing open there with Gingerbread on the Nexus S you can actually manage your running applications right from the menu so I'll go ahead and jump right into manage apps and show what's running and all I've got there is a keyboard and settings live wallpapers have been turned off alright so for speed both these are running on the same Wi-Fi network let's try and load the same web right to both of these pages would obviously be loaded before so it's a test of websites that you visit on a regular basis we'll go ahead and do a refresh on each go ahead and do the same thing here as well I hadn't at the same time again on the same Wi-Fi networks so we've got go right there I'm go right there and they are both off I should mention from a processor standpoint both are running a very similar processors 1 gigahertz hummingbird here in the Nexus S and the system-on-a-chip the a4 in the iPhone well it looks like that was almost identical let's try running that test one more time and see if there's any sort of speed difference here cuz that was pretty much too close to call we've got them both loading if the Nexus S is showing a bit more content first Nexus S is done iPhone is still loading so you'll give this round finally had sort of definitive answer to the Nexus S and I will say it's representatives or some other side I visited nexus s has been a little bit faster alright so let's go ahead and talk about some applications and show the speed here we'll load some like applications I've got Angry Birds here on both I'll go ahead and launch both of these and once again it looks like the Nexus S loaded things just a little bit faster we'll go ahead and go back home and all these things are still going to stay running it's go ahead take a look at calendar one of the things that can often be a bit slow to load would go ahead do that both here as well calendar loaded a little bit faster on the Nexus S let's go ahead and try camera loaded just a second later on the iPhone still took longer to load on the iPhone so we still add a quicker lo despite my inaccurate fingers on the Nexus S so from a speed standpoint the Nexus S really is a screamer it optimizes the hummingbird process or chipset that we've seen in all of the galaxy s devices and the phone is just very fast not to say the iPhone 4 the speed slouch but the hardware and the software a really done a nice job of being optimized together on the Nexus S so this rounds going Nexus s alright now let's talk about text entry both of these are slab phones that don't have physical keywords so you've got input text using the screens the Nexus S features a new keyboard it's unique to Gingerbread C it's a little better laid out it's got some spaces between the keys you couldn't protect normally as you would just type in and you also have the voice to text feature down there which works very well you can do it in landscape or portrait the iPhone has a very similar keyboard layout you could type in portrait or landscape and there's no sort of alternative entry for text entry so either it's vertical or horizontal but either way you're stuck with the key word there is no voice option here now with Android go ahead and add swipe or its ton of other third-party keyboards so from a text entry into raw keyword standpoint this really is a very close draw if you're just comparing this to this however when you look at that little icon right there and is very accurate text-entry not to mention third-party support the Nexus S is going to once again take the text entry round alright so let's talk about screen a lot has been made about this contour display here on the Nexus X it's a little bit round and practical use you don't really notice it it's kind of cool to see it so to sit better on your face the Nexus S does feature a four inch Super AMOLED display essentially means that the touch mechanism used to touch the screen is integrated into the glass as opposed to sitting on top like traditional touch screens I didn't have a resolution of 800 by 480 and with all sort of Super AMOLED screen if you've ever seen a Galaxy S series phone knows that there's a little bit of a twinge of color to it almost looks a little grey or blue that's definitely the case here with the Nexus S as well I will say the screens on both do look beautiful they show great images the iPhones got a 3.5 inch screen with the display of 960 by 640 and a lots been made about the Retina display now this is really a Super AMOLED darker colors richer colors versus a higher resolution so that's gonna come down to really what looks better for your eyes however my eyes I prefer the higher resolution while watching video on the iPhone unfortunately showing that on YouTube recording it's definitely able to see the video fidelity but I will say that I personally preferred the screen on the iPhone versus a Super AMOLED screen on the Nexus S so screen is going to go to be Nexus S I'm sorry it's gonna go to the iPhone rather going to the iPhone screen going to the iPhone all right let's talk very quickly about browsers both of these feature multi-touch browsers based on WebKit standards that can do all kinds of goodness pinch and zoom works pretty well you've got integrated just played a YouTube video there we've got YouTube that can sort of integrate to each of these pinch to zoom is not as smooth on Android as it is on the iPhone 4 however Android can play flash content slash 10.1 which is not necessarily the most important thing to me personally but I know a lot of you rely very heavily on being able to view slash content it is a battery drain you can turn it on or off if you want to make that battery sacrifice but with most browsers or videos and browser comparisons that I've done the addition of flash and the opening up of content that that gives you gives this round right back to the Nexus S alright so let's talk about some extras and little things that the operating systems are going to come with one of the things that Android is really getting known for very quickly is its navigation and it's Google Maps Navigation which is a free turn-by-turn navigation option on the iPhone you've got a ton of navigation choices but you have to pay for them either in a one lump-sum it'll store the maps on your phone or a subscription things like AT&T TeleNav service which relies on the network I having to pay for features like that not necessarily the biggest fan of especially when there are three options available on a myriad of Android devices I do like the ease and simplicity of the iPhone the iPhone is actually my daily driver I've gotten used to it I really don't like the built-in mail client that comes on the iPhone and Android gives you a bit more options with their native Gmail client so when it comes to sort of intangibles there's something to be said about having an iPhone the way it looks in the way it feels it's a very seamless process it's a very added walled garden integration so you serve stuck within apples limitations Android is very open you customize it any way you want to make it sort of feel and look the way you most prefer this one is really a personal preference and my personal preference is I prefer the iPhone operating system over Android but objectively Android definitely brings more to the table than iOS does so from an extra is anything you can do with Android all the customizations you can make if you choose to sir the stock Android the way it looks say your grandmother were to buy the phone is still a very elegant interface so the extras has to go to Android so this one was very very very much a blowout with the Nexus S taking speed taking text entry the iPhone taking screen and the Nexus S grabbing back browser and extras this was an absolute smack of the Nexus S vs the iPhone we've got a new king ladies and gentlemen the Nexus S video what a little longer that I wanted I was trying to make it as concise as possible if any other questions or things that you want to see brought head-to-head in future rounds of iPhone versus Nexus axes go ahead and let me know and leave your comments down below I'll see you guys the next video bye-bye so one last point that I want to bring up while doing these phone comparisons heads ahead it's really important to try and leave your personal opinions aside and look very objectively at the operating systems so despite the fact that I am an iPhone user and that's what I use this daily device I can appreciate Android what it brings the table there's a lot of customizations a lot of elegance and a lot of power in this operating system so whether you have preconceived notions about which phone you're going to like if you're in the market for a new phone you owe it yourself to look at both operand systems because you might find Apple might sway in one way and Droid might sway another and they really are two fantastic choices and you can't go wrong with either now I really will see in the next video goodbye you