The Samsung Galaxy S is the one iPhone killer that could have buried Apple's baby for good. There's nothing the iPhone 3Gs could do to hold a candle to it. It has everything the iPhone has and more. The only problem - it's not up against the iPhone 3Gs, it's up against a better iPhone 4. It's a case of too much too late.
The collision course is inevitable. Released at about the same time in the same month, the two have much in common in terms of superlative flagship features. Each employs a different set of product technology but arrives at the same end - a genuinely superb flagship smartphone that essentially redefines what a smartphone can have and can do but in two different worlds.
But while the iPhone 4 trumps it on many features, the Samsung Galaxy S is one formidable smartphone that remains king of the Android hill.
The Screen Magic
While the iPhone 4 boasts of having the highest screen resolution and dot pitch of any smartphone to date while harnessing in-plane switching technology on its LCD, the Samsung Galaxy S has its own screen arsenal.
It sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors but with a slightly lower 480 x 800 resolution. It also uses the same multitouch data input technology found on all iPhones along with the proximity and accelerometer sensors. But it adds Swipe texting capability that gives it an edge in text input technologies.
Imaging is on nearly equal footing with the iPhone as its camera gets the same 5 megapixel resolution with autofocus, geo tagging, touch focus and face/smile detection but minus the LED flash. Video recording is also in HD at 720p resolution at 30fps.
Other Flagship Features
Powered by the same 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor that is also used in the Apple A4 SoC (System on Chip) CPU for both iPhone 4 and its iPad, the Galaxy S runs on the Android v2.1 right out of the box but is upgradable to the 2.2 Froyo.
The smartphone is a veritable cornucopia of radio and data connectivity technologies. It's a 3G phone on the tri band UMTS with HSDPA/HSUPA data speeds and a quad band GSM with class 12 GPRS/EDGE speeds on 2G.
Its WiFi 802.11 comes with the b/g/n flavor that enjoys DLNA capability while its Bluetooth is the latest version 3.0 based on the WiFi protocol. SatNav functionality gets an integrated GPS receiver with A-GPS, and is preloaded with Google Maps and a Java digital compass.
Like any flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S is nothing if not for being one of the best music phones that sit on the same pedestal as any iPhone generation. It actually edges the iPhone which has no stereo FM radio that the Galaxy has.
It has the media players for the popular audio and video files and a TV-out that also serves as the 3.5mm headphone jack on top of its A2DP profile support for wireless stereo listening.
Onboard memory is just 8 GB compared with the iPhone's inbuilt 16 GB or 32 GB depending on the model, but it has microSD expansion slot for up to 32 GB. Its 1500 mAh li-ion battery is user replaceable unlike that in the iPhone 4 and delivers just 30 minutes shy of the iPhone's 14-hour talk time. But standby time is a lot more at 750 hours on 2G and 576 hours on 3G.
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