Samsung Galaxy S4

Samsung Galaxy S4

Hardware:

An 8-core processor paired with 2 GB of memory keeps things snappy, while a 13 megapixel front camera is sure to keep you snapping.  Samsung has also beefed up their front facing camera to 5 megapixels which should be more than capable of 720p video capture.  Screen real-estate won't be an issue any longer now that it's been stretched up to 5 inches.  To make things a little clearer, that's not just 5 inches of 1080p, it's actually better than that.  Pixel density on the Samsung Galaxy S4 is 441ppi!  That's 115 more pixels per inch than the Retina Display on the Apple iPhone 5.

Samsung Galaxy S4 versus Apple iPhone 5

SG S4
2GB RAM, Exynos 5 Octa processor (which is a system-on-a-chip setup consisting of the Cortex-A7 (6-9 months old) and Cortex-A15 (15 month old tech)  Nothing particularly fancy here, just a new configuration for previous hardware.

Iphone5
1GB RAM, Apple A6 (another system-on-a-chip setup consisting of two processors, one dual-core and a tri-core)  Anyone familiar with Apples Mac computers knows that Apple continually does a lot more with a lot less.

Where Samsung is pulling ahead is on it's cameras.  13 megapixels on your external (versus the iPhone 5's 8 megapixels) and 5 megapixels on the front camera (versus Apple's 1.2 megapixel camera).  Photo fanatics will love the capabilities of this phone.  Hopefully it will not be plagued with some of the bugs of the S3.

I would like to agree with Samsung that they are taking charge of the cellphone market and leading on innovation, but almost all of their features seem to be reactions to Apple's iPhone 5.

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