iPhone or Galaxy 2?

schmucker

The 1 thing the iPhone has over the Galaxy S2 is the desirability factor, and thats due to Apple amazing marketing. If you could market a dog turd to be amazing people will buy it, simple, specs, hardware etc are irrelevant, Every add break has a bloody advert for an iPhone 4, and look how its made out, Airplay can do this that and the other, what they fail to mention you is need an Apple TV to do this but do the general public care? No they see this as a totally amazing piece of kit. Now come to Samsung I can't actually remember seeing an advert for the Galaxy S2.

23n1th

Just for the info of people who know you can have objective facts stating which phone is better despite peoples opinions:

Form Factor
1st: Galaxy S II - 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.49mm, 117g

2nd: iPhone 4 - 115.2 x 58.7 x 9.3mm, 137g

Storage
1st: Galaxy S II - 16/32GB + microSD

2nd: iPhone 4 - 16/32GB

Battery Life
1st : Galaxy S II – 1650mAh offering up to 710 standby hours using 2G, up to 610 standby hours using 3G, you will get up to 18 hours 20 minutes talk time using 2G and up to 8 hours 40 minutes using 3G. Plus the battery is user replaceable as an added bonus.

2nd: iPhone 4 - 1420mAh offering up to 300 standby hours using 2G and up to 300 standby hours using 3G, you will get up to 14 talk time hours using 2G and up to 7 hours talk time using 3G.

Display
1st: Galaxy S II - features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours (480 x 800 pixels), featuring Gorilla Glass display, Multi-touch input method, and Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, TouchWiz UI v4.0, Proximity sensor and Touch-sensitive controls.

2nd: iPhone 4 - has a 3.5-inch LED-backlit IPS TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours (640 x 960), it also features Scratch-resistant oleophobic surface, Multi-touch input method, Three-axis gyro sensor, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Proximity sensor for auto turn-off.

Performance
1st: Galaxy S II – features a Tegra 2 Dual-core 1.2GHz proccessor, Mali-400MP GPU, Orion chipset.

2nd: iPhone 4 – fitted with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX535GPU, Apple A4 chipset (manufactured by Samsung for apple)

Imaging
1st: Galaxy S II - 8MP autofocus with LED Flash rear-facing camera (3264×2448 pixels), with autofocus, LED flash, face and smile detection, Geo-tagging, touch focus and image stabilization. Also comes with a front-facing 2MP camera and 1080p@30fps video.

2nd: iPhone 4 - 5MP rear, camera offering 2592 x 1944 pixels, featuring autofocus, Touch focus, LED flash and geo-tagging. Comes with 720p@30fps video recording and LED video light, also comes with a front-facing VGA camera for video call chats (video-calling over Wi-Fi only)

Connectivity
1st: Galaxy S II - Wi-Fi, NFC, BT 3.0, DLNA, Wi-Fi tethering

2nd: iPhone 4 - Wi-Fi, BT 2.1, 3G

Price
1st: Galaxy S II - Less than the iPhone 4

2nd: iPhone 4 - More than anyone else

Multimedia
The Galaxy S 2 can play pretty much any video format which currently exists on Planet Earth. Plus theres Flash.

Forwandert

Spent quite a lot of time debating the galaxy today and finally ordered it this evening, only problem was the white version wasn't allowed on my upgrade for some reason and it looked really nice when i went instore this afternoon to have a look what was available, anything has to be smaller then my current Dell streak anyway.

hicky45

23n1th- you really dislike the iPhone haha. Just aswell this debate will continue when the iPhone 5 is announced. By the way which phone sells more worldwide ? :-)

diamonds

Forwandert wrote: »

Spent quite a lot of time debating the galaxy today and finally ordered it this evening, only problem was the white version wasn't allowed on my upgrade for some reason and it looked really nice when i went instore this afternoon to have a look what was available, anything has to be smaller then my current Dell streak anyway.

Streak any good as a tablet ? considering getting one as a mini tablet & keeping 3GS as a phone/music player....surfing & wifi hammers the battery like Katie Price hammers her make up bag.

Forwandert

I got the streak first day they were released and never changed it since which is unusual for me I used to change my phone quite regular, I have been using it mainly for surfing as you never have to zoom into sites the screen is just the right size and also sat nav you can get the holders quite cheap on ebay for the car, if you want a tablet you can carry around its perfect size, i've also dropped mine down sets of stairs and all over the place and the screen survived everytime, only time it didn't was when I dropped something directly onto the edge of the screen and it smashed the glass, i'm using it now to post though with the glass cracked and its still working fine. as for battery life it seems ok, occasionally I need to charge up as soon as I get home from work if i've been surfing most of the day but mainly it lasts at least a full day.

They can be a little awkward to use if you start using the custom roms as Dell never really released the information needed for the devs to get everything fully working so you can get certain bugs and restarting etc but I never had any problems since I went back to the original rom.

23n1th

hicky45 wrote: »

23n1th- you really dislike the iPhone haha. Just aswell this debate will continue when the iPhone 5 is announced. By the way which phone sells more worldwide ? :-)

You're wrong I don't dislike the iphone. I am pointing out that at this moment the SGS2 is the better phone, which is obvious for anyone to see. Trying to say a phone released well over a year before the SGS2 is as good or better is stupid especially considering the pace of new technologies coming out.

I'd like to think the iphone 5 should be better that the SGS2 seeing as it was released after the SGS2.

What phone sells more worldwide? What year are we talking?

horngkai

hicky45 wrote: »

23n1th- you really dislike the iPhone haha. Just aswell this debate will continue when the iPhone 5 is announced. By the way which phone sells more worldwide ? :-)

I think its not fair to compare iphone 4 sales to SG2. Personally, I will compare iOS sales to Android.

Malaga0034_2

!!!!!! Apple iPhone is this best on the market full stop thats why the competition keeps bringing 8-10 phones a year out to try and keep up
iOS 5 is the dogs and the airplay on the iPhone is mega - i can have 10,000 songs on my iPhone in my own house and it doesn't take up any memory on the phone is just 1 mega thing i could go on all night
And with the Apple tv as well omg its just Mega !!!! probably the best ever

annasoper

Malaga

Absolutely agree with you a 100%! An iphone is the best phone around. People keep saying it has a poor camera, no flash etc. If you want a camera, go buy a camera. And unfortunately there are a lot of iphone haters around, who either 1. Don't own an iphone or 2. Owned an iphone in the past but wanted it to act like a magic wand or 3. Can't afford one and jealous of everyone else who can.