Sunday, April 22, 2012

What costs like iPhone but operates on Android? Samsung Galaxy Note vs iPhone

By Jasons Rozentsweig


IT experts often argue whether Android phones can ever be as attractive to customers as an iconic iPhone. The war between the two classes is going for a few years by now: Apple just released iPhone 4S and is likely to show iPhone 5 on WWDC 2012 in a few months.

What about the army of Android phones? On the one hand, HTC, Samsung and others sell more Android gadgets. iPhones clearly dominate the high-end segment of the market while Android phones are very heterogeneous with various features. This market segmentation with some Android phones selling at less than 300 dollars prevents them from financial domination over Apple.

Among new electronic devices Samsung Galaxy Note is in the avant-garde of Android phone army because it has a number of interesting features. This phone is equipped with 5.3 Gorilla glass screen which make it look like a tiny tablet PC rather than a smart phone. Many customers who cannot put the device in the pocket find this large screen to be a flaw rather than advantage of Samsung Galaxy Note.

Some iPhone users also do not like the idea of stylus that can be used to puch buttons, send messages and sketch notes. Galaxy battery will allow sending messages, surfing the web and talking over the phone for up to two days of active use.

However, unlike other phones in order to change the memory customer will have to take out the battery first. TouchWiz 4.0 is placed on the top of the Android 2.3.5 OS and includes large Widgets and five shortcuts in the lower part of the display. There are up to seven desktops that are supported and some Widgets can change size according to user wish.

Samsung but it is heavier because of additional enhancements. A popular resource dpk.com.ua considered a model that costs 850 dollars and operates by Gingerbread version of Android platform. It has Samsung own processor Exynos with video accelerator Mali 400-MP.

Despite high resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels of the Super AMOLED screen, Galaxy Note suffers from a domination of green shades that can be attributed to PenTile technology.

Handwriting opportunity with the help of stylus is one of the major marketing advantages of the device. Indeed, stylus allows drawing a nice picture and the model allows character recognition even for the worst handwriting. Large keyboard is an alternative for text editing that is especially convenient in the horizontal screen mode.

Dock station is an interesting concept for this half-tablet and half-Smartphone device. Dock station comes with an external speaker for a more loud sound. Additional features of the smart phone include 8-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi direct, S Memo, FM radio among other things.

It seems that Samsung can bite off some Apple market share because Note is comparable to iPhone in terms of design, features and enhancements. Our preference, however, would be a power full laptop for about the same price because we are not sure whether Samsung Galaxy functionality is worth its cost.




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