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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  • Gani
  • uph
  • 07 Aug 2010

Apple is certainly the most arrogant and meanest co. out there.They're just bothered about selling faulty iphones to people.Samsung is a versatile co.making good products.Wait till september,with the upgrade the GALAXY S is gonna kick iphone's *ss.

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    • George
    • vCK
    • 07 Aug 2010

    Borys Pawliw, 07 Aug 2010I am fortunate enough to have both the iPhone 4 and the Gal... moreThank you at least this person adds a very good and through detail about these two phones. I appreciate this information. Can someone do better in comparing these phones during work, rest and play in this comment section?

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      • benson
      • 9Ad
      • 07 Aug 2010

      yahoooooooo, 07 Aug 2010Best thing about the samsung is that you don't need the F**... moreso true thats why i hate apple,they stifle you and limit what you can do,,no other manufacturer in the world tells you how to use its products except apple..As for galaxy s haad it g days and is superb.

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        • Anonymous
        • vaN
        • 07 Aug 2010

        Phil69, 07 Aug 2010IPhone 4 9/10 et Galaxy S 8/10 for the applications. Come ... moreSamsung is a good mp3 player i have s8500,
        DNSe and virtual 5.1 is the best
        compared to my 3gs which has flat sound, (used headphone shure e2g)

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          • nick
          • nxw
          • 07 Aug 2010

          Phil69, 07 Aug 2010IPhone 4 9/10 et Galaxy S 8/10 for the applications. Come ... morethe best music phone i ever had was a samsung. the i8510. the sound quality was superb, so i have no reason to doubt it's the same in the galaxy s

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            • not fair
            • piU
            • 07 Aug 2010

            actually iPhone is much classier than Galaxy S and it lose point because of apple limitations. Without antenna problem iPhone 4 kicks Galaxy S in the S on every area. All other OS's looks like iOS copy and i hate that crappy TouchWiz interface.

            GSMARENA please do not handle iPhone without AppStore because all you wanna do with your phone is in there.

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              • Sjoerd
              • iyC
              • 07 Aug 2010

              Iphone= Apps < Android= Programs! ;P

              Haven't found limitations on my galaxy yet, installed 100mb apks and some with loose sd files on it without a sweat.

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                • Anonymous
                • t7A
                • 07 Aug 2010

                oh please.. gsmarena didn't even post ui comparison 'cause it's so obvious samsung got their ui from apple. seriously, even the camera and music player is the EXACT copy from iphone with extremely slight changes. and god! the menu is such a clone of iphone! the way it has 4 icons on the bottom and scrollable on top of it. even the design is a copy of 3gs in a stupid way. it's actually kinda disgusting. like a china phone.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 2Ga
                  • 07 Aug 2010

                  Phil69, 07 Aug 2010IPhone 4 9/10 et Galaxy S 8/10 for the applications. Come ... moresamsung apps do suck but android apps dont

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                    • Sjoerd
                    • iyC
                    • 07 Aug 2010

                    Many complain about a bad gps reception of the galaxy S, but i've got plenty of luck with the standard maps navigation and sygic maps 10. A "fix" after several seconds, eventhough he could be 40M off ..

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                      • Phil69
                      • nRe
                      • 07 Aug 2010

                      IPhone 4 9/10 et Galaxy S 8/10 for the applications.
                      Come on!
                      Samsung applications are not good at all.
                      We all know that GSM Arena is pro Samsung since a long time.
                      Since their tests proclaim that Samsung phones have good audio quality mp3 players. Simply not true.

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                        • Max
                        • 0yw
                        • 07 Aug 2010

                        "To all Apple fans":

                        Don't make a mistake that your master(S.Jobs)done earlier!
                        Do you remember the pre-launch PR of iPhone 4 that Jobs was hardly try to indirectly say(overall)Android phones are worthless specially those that one of the Korean companies that it's name starts with "S"(oh man!can you guess?keep it up!)and to be exact don't buy those with Super AMOLED(s)?!!do you?
                        not to mention he made ultra super smartphone from iPhone 4(that is far better than Samy's)and look what happened today;any article on earth about iPhone 4 contains receptions issues and lacks that these days you only see in under 70$ handsets(iTunes and no Card Slot are good examples).
                        These flaws,lacks or what ever was big enough to push Jobs to it's limits and one who 2 or 3 days earlier denied the truth and again and again finally admitted it but with conditions!!Nokia,Motorola,Samsung,LG,SonyEricsson and if there was another big company in handset market it would be 6th victim of Apple's fault.
                        So...the lesson?
                        Whats done is done and there is nothing can do about it admit it and don't make few more S.Jobs(it's only one now and what was going to happen if jobs was twin?!!).
                        iPhone 4 is good device(great actually)but when someone claiming the best of the market it's a different story at least it must work the way that it should be.

                        ...Cheers from Germany.

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                          • someone
                          • tZt
                          • 07 Aug 2010

                          Anonymous, 07 Aug 2010total points iphone 4 =56 i9000 galaxy S =60 woohooSoory its
                          iphone 4 =68
                          i9000 glaxy S =78

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                            • Anonymous
                            • tZt
                            • 07 Aug 2010

                            total points
                            iphone 4 =56
                            i9000 galaxy S =60
                            woohoo

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                              • Anonymous
                              • up6
                              • 07 Aug 2010

                              gsmarena plz do comparisn of icrap with samsung beam, whr all provs of SGS hav been resolvd,with flash and a projector.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • P@9
                                • 07 Aug 2010

                                galaxg s is the king of touch screen and smart phone...apple!u should learn from samsung....

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                                  • yahoooooooo
                                  • nYM
                                  • 07 Aug 2010

                                  Best thing about the samsung is that you don't need the F***** iTunes
                                  just drag and drop baby

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                                    • Out of the world
                                    • Pxx
                                    • 07 Aug 2010

                                    Thanx Gsmarena for comparing Galaxy S with iPhone 4. Only Samsung is capable of making ground breaking phones like Galaxy S. Galaxy S is the best phone in the market. Apple is out of the market. Samsung Rockzzz as always.

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                                      • VEK CHHAR MAMAG
                                      • YTK
                                      • 07 Aug 2010

                                      Im not a samsung fan or Apple fan.But the review seems to be slightly biased towards samsung galaxy s,when it comes to music player and web browser.But otherwise I agree that Galaxy s is far better.
                                      By the way I have a samsung wave

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                                        • my optional name
                                        • 0Tp
                                        • 07 Aug 2010

                                        i had samsung vacuum cleaner once...it broke down very fast, but i liked it anyway. but i never had samsung phone that was good. nice try samsung but apple`s iphone is better than your iphone