Samsung Galaxy S Iii vs. Iphone 5 Smartphone Schmackdown by Wirefly

Hi everyone, Scott Lewis here for Wirefly. Today I’m here to bring you a cell phone smack down between two of the hottest phones in the courtroom and out of the courtroom. Today we have the Samsung Galaxy S III versus iPhone’s brand new iPhone 5. I don’t think Apple liked it when the Galaxy S III broke its sales records, although the iPhone 5 is selling quite well right now. These are absolutely the two biggest heavyweights in the cell phone industry right now. Let’s go and talk about the design of these two great phones. In my opinion, it looks like Samsung and Apple went two different ways when they were designing their phone. During the Apple conference, Apple kept talking about the single thumb texting and navigation of their iPhone 5, where Samsung has a little bit larger display. It has a 4.8 inch display, versus the 4 inch display. To me that says, Samsung is designing a phone that they’re going for maximum size of screen, and they’re okay with having two different hands navigating the phone. It’s a little different than Apple’s theory about having it nice and slim so that you can use one hand to navigate through the phone. They both have very solid pixel densities and very solid displays. They are a little bit different displays; the Super AMOLED display in the Samsung has a screen resolution of 720 x 1280, versus the iPhone 5’s 640 x 1136 screen resolution. The iPhone 5 is using the Apple’s retina display with an overall pixel density of 326 pixels per inch; the Galaxy III has 306 pixels per inch. As you may have already heard, and kind of the reason they call it a retina display, is anything over around 300 pixels per inch, the human eye can’t really tell any difference. Looking at pixel density, you’re really not going to notice the difference between the Galaxy S III or the iPhone 5. What you can tell the difference of is the Super AMOLED display versus the LCD display. The Super AMOLED display is going to have a little richer tone to it, but you’ll see an the LCD is going to have a little bit truer color. It’s almost like the Super AMOLED display enhances the colors a little bit, or if you want true color, it’s going to be more realistic on the LCD display. Let’s go ahead and compare the phones side by side and take a look at some different height and thicknesses. The iPhone 5 has a thickness of 7.6 millimeters, while the Galaxy S III is 8.6 millimeters – one full millimeter thicker on the Galaxy S III than the iPhone 5. We’ll say that the curved design of the Galaxy S III makes it a little easier to hold in your hand than the very sharp corners of the iPhone 5. The curved design of the Galaxy S III gives it an elusive feel so you don’t notice that you’re holding such a large phone. Overall weight on the two phones, the Galaxy S III is weighing at 4.7 ounces versus the iPhone 5 at 3.95 ounces. Some of that difference is going to be because of the battery; the iPhone 5 has a 1440 milliamp hour battery versus the Galaxy S III’s 2100 milliamp hour battery. Immediately you think the Galaxy S III is going to last longer because it has a bigger battery; but on my personal experience, an Android phone generally goes through battery a little bit quicker than an Apple product. A lot of that has to do though with the added benefits of the Android phone. You’ll have widgets running in the background which constantly communicate with the network, so it does go through battery a little bit quicker, but it does have your information available for you with one touch. I really like widgets on the Galaxy S III and all Android phones, so I think that’s a major plus for the Galaxy S III. Let’s go through a couple of tech specs real quick on each phone. The Galaxy S III has a dual core 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon S4 processor while the new iPhone 5 has Apple’s A6 processor which is a dual-core processor at around 1 gigahert. The Galaxy S III has 2 gigabytes of processor RAM versus the 1 gigabyte of processor RAM that the iPhone 5 has. For built in storage you have some options; the iPhone 5 you have a 16, 32 or 64 gigabyte option, while the Galaxy S III has a 32 or 64 gigabyte option. Another great benefit for the Galaxy S III is the fact that it has an option for additional storage. You can add up to a 64 gigabyte micro SD card underneath the back battery cover. There’s enough spot to expand on board memory on the iPhone 5 but it does have the iCloud option; and we also have Cloud based services; so I really won’t consider any iCloud or Cloud based storage a benefit to either one because they’re an option on both of them. Looking at both phones, they both have front facing cameras. They have a 1.9 megapixel front facing camera on the Galaxy S III versus the 1.2 megapixel front facing camera on the iPhone 5. They both have 8 megapixel rear facing cameras with LED flash, that will also take video in true high definition. They’ll both record in 1080p high definition at 30 frames per second. Both of these phones are great for browsing the internet; so one of the main features of the Android phone over an Apple product is the fact that you have Flash compatibility on the Galaxy S III. Both of the phones will be fine running HTML and HTML 5 websites, but the iPhone 5 runs into a problem with anything that has Flash on it. It’s been a [00:04:51] for a while that Apple won’t allow anything that plays Flash on their phone. We’ve seen some differences between these two phones on our smack down today, we’ve also noticed that they are very similar in a lot of different ways in a lot of their specs. Some of the specs of the Galaxy S III might be a little bit better, but the efficiency of the iPhone 5’s operating system allows it to run just as fast. If I was going to call a winner today, I would call the Samsung Galaxy S III the winner. I like the large 4.8 inch display; I like the Super AMOLED display better than the iPhone’s LCD retina display; I like having the option to add additional onboard storage on the Galaxy S III; and I like the ability to watch flash video on the Galaxy S III. But what the smack down really comes down to is do you like the Android operating system? Or do you like Apple’s iOS operating system? In my opinion, the Android operating system, through the evolution of Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, and now even when you get to Jellybean which is Android 4.1, you’ll notice that it got a lot more user-friendly. It’s not exclusively for the tech geek anymore; it’s very user-friendly. I really like the option to have widgets placed in your icons and applications we like versus iPhone’s, automatically sorts and you can move them around, but you can’t put one down here in an empty space because that’s where you want it. It has to stay in line. I would love to hear what our YouTube viewers have to say about our smack down today, are you a Samsung Galaxy S III Android person? Or are you an Apple iOS person that really likes the new design of the iPhone 5? Please leave your comments here in our Wirefly YouTube channel but make sure to keep them appropriate. If you have any questions on the Galaxy S III or the iPhone 5, you’re more than welcome to also leave those here in our Wirefly YouTube channel, and I’ll try and answer them for you. My name’s Scott Lewis for Wirefly, thanks for watching.