Samsung I9000 Galaxy S vs. Apple iPhone 4: Collision course

06 August 2010
It’s not like you’re out of options. Here’s one. Another one would be to get a friend’s iPhone 4 and another friend’s Galaxy S, put them on a table, close your eyes and… tell your friends to bugger off. Or you can do it the old-fashioned way. Flip a what...

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  • deep space bar
  • q{5
  • 07 Aug 2010

biller, 07 Aug 2010Don't know about u guys , but the games on iPhone are the b... morejust wait till ovi 2.0 comes out and N8 that will change really soon

and Qt on the N900 plus the massive price drop

means ALOT WILL BE DONE ON MAEMO 5 and N8

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    • Anonymous
    • FJT
    • 07 Aug 2010

    deep space bar, 07 Aug 2010 shut up it's not biased at all it shows that hype can onl... moreYes, this review is very biased towards galaxy indeed.  They did not even bother with the galaxy's maps/navigation issues and the ip4's very useful gyroscope.  But they took their sweet time to bring up ip4's antennagate.  They gave the ip4 1 point lead on design when it should've been more.  And again, they didn't bother with low light conditions for both photos and videos on the camera where the ip4 would've garnered more points.  Biased.

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      • Torh
      • Pau
      • 07 Aug 2010

      Anonymous, 07 Aug 2010What a biased review. Especially on the camera part. They... morePoor Iphone fan, you can make a phone call with your phone becasue your antenna sucks. oops

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        • biller
        • nmF
        • 07 Aug 2010

        Don't know about u guys , but the games on iPhone are the best.
        who needs a psp

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          • Engineer Man
          • n5Q
          • 07 Aug 2010

          Yeah, that's the spirit. Anything Android or S^3 has the power to miraculously attract experts who know what they are doing with software & fix things y'know - actually for the better, *cough* that's more than I can say for the Iphad's, *cough*, oops I must of mis-prounounced there ..um sorry! Shhh - "whispers quietly" be careful the iphans are like some occult gang, you don't want to mess in Steve Jobs little part of his umpire or things get double jeopardy, his little garden of eden where all the people & flowers are the same with the same scripted manner ..haha OK.

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            • Rod
            • pJZ
            • 07 Aug 2010

            Upgraded from iPhone 3G to Samsung Galaxy S. Got all the downloaded .avi files on the phone, no converting and messing around. Faultless!

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              • deep space bar
              • q{5
              • 07 Aug 2010

              Anonymous, 07 Aug 2010What a biased review. Especially on the camera part. They... more
              shut up it's not biased at all it shows that hype can only sell and not perform

              this has been a FAIR match up and samsung obviously beat apple since they love to talk smack to everyone

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                • Anonymous
                • FJT
                • 07 Aug 2010

                What a biased review. Especially on the camera part. They tried so hard to focus on the ip4's camera weaknesses, and did not bother with taking pictures and videos in low light situations where galaxy would miserably fail, lol.

                Also on their displays, over saturation of colors on the galaxy is less desirable than the natural looking colors on the ip4.

                GSM Arena has been condemning the iphone4 and Apple. This biased review, althought trying to be subtle, is no surprise for me.

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                  • steve n0b
                  • pKN
                  • 07 Aug 2010

                  Anonymous, 06 Aug 2010ya iphone 4 all the way!!! i'm getting this besides all thi... more"ya iphone 4 all the way!!! i'm getting this besides all this biased reviews and all cause you know in the end all the hot girls will say wow if you have iphone4 in ur hand not that shit looking toy samsung galaxy-s"

                  AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA sums up all the sad followers HHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA

                  Go for the overpriced flawed device to impress girls ROFL LMAO LOL!!!

                  I am in tears LOL AHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA .........iNerd

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                    • curio
                    • m8$
                    • 06 Aug 2010

                    Ooops, here is the URL of the fix for headphones audio quality ;)
                    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735918

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                      • curio
                      • m8$
                      • 06 Aug 2010

                      Hello GSMArena Team !

                      Thank you for pointing out the problem of frequency response with headphones attached on the Galaxy S.
                      Did you take a look at my thread on xda-developers forum ?

                      You'll find more analysis and a fix.

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                        • Engineer Man
                        • n5Q
                        • 06 Aug 2010

                        Just wait & see Iphans. Just wait & see what happens once N8 breaks free of it's chains & is let loose into the wild woods. Looks like we could see Total Knock-out N8 vs Iphone 4. I imagine democracy over royalty. Top trumpings Iphans, eat my shorts...! hehe

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 33I
                          • 06 Aug 2010

                          iPhone is iPhone. there's something different about it......yeap it sucks

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                            • Bricked
                            • Tk8
                            • 06 Aug 2010

                            Yep. After reading that I have to agree, that we finally have our "iphone killer" as fanboys like to say. I don't like the whole media circus bashing of the iphone 4, and I have defended Apple in the past, but it's good to see touchscreen handsets finally trump Apple's, as it's only good for competition.

                            I do feel that the iphone's screen is better though.

                            As for this comments section. Bravo, less hate and more balanced opionions are welcome. Haters need not attempt to comment.

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                              • Bricked
                              • Tk8
                              • 06 Aug 2010

                              Bit of a no-brainer this one, and I haven't even read the review.

                              The Galaxy S probably wins.

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                                • SGS
                                • mIm
                                • 06 Aug 2010

                                Apple got 68/90 and SGS 78/90...but most shocking result is that apple got 4/10 in telephony category and it's supposed to be a phone after all, ha! And it only won in design and apps...underperforming, overpriced but looks pretty. Fact.

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                                  • Dave
                                  • myA
                                  • 06 Aug 2010

                                  As much as I am a samsung fan boy I do feel like topic was only made to start the biggest fan boy war ever and to increase the number of posts on this site. Either way ill flame on Galaxy Rules!!!!

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                                    • Cristian
                                    • 0Ue
                                    • 06 Aug 2010

                                    thepeat1, 06 Aug 2010actually I have both iphone 3gs and galaxy s and imo the mu... moreI agree with you and talk because I tested them both: Galaxy S and iPhone4... even I was very surprised !

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                                      • thepeat1
                                      • 0rK
                                      • 06 Aug 2010

                                      M.j, 06 Aug 2010Was finding this an interesting review,until i realized tha... moreOh and I forgot. ITS SUPER AMOLED NOT AMOLED. Big diffrence. when I was used to SGS and looked at a nexus one I thought the screen looked like crap, really. Super Amoled looks like freakin HD.

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                                        • thepeat1
                                        • 0rK
                                        • 06 Aug 2010

                                        M.j, 06 Aug 2010Was finding this an interesting review,until i realized tha... moreactually I have both iphone 3gs and galaxy s and imo the music player on galaxy is better. the cover flow looks kinda dumb on galaxy but for the rest its so much faster and easier to use. Also it shows up in the notification bar so you dont have to go to the music player if you just want to skip a track. I know you can do that on iphone too but not as good as on SGS. you would have to experience it really