iPhone 5 (vs Samsung Galaxy S3) Drop Tests Show Very Durable Device and Screen

[takenaback]

* Screen resolution

* screen tech (OLED - better contrast ratio) 95.13% of iPhone users would squint and say they can't see much of a difference, and don't care in any case

* 2x more RAM 93.92% of iPhone users would say "huh? how fast does it react when I prod the screen?"

* wireless charging where are you going to put it? or do you have one by your bed, one on your desk at home, your desk at work, your car? they look ugly as sin in any case

* two baseband chips (simultaneous LTE data and voice) 97.64% of iPhone users will look at you like you have three heads if you suggest that they might want to browse the internet on the phone while they're talking on the phone

* bigger battery (better battery time for talk and stand by) better battery life is great, though I'm yet to be convinced
* wireless charging ding dong

* memory card (more storage) 178% of iPhone users do not want to spend their time copying media onto a tiny little card within some adaptor in their laptop, to remove the back of their phone, insert the card, then deal with the complexity of locating media in different locations on some random app...


I speak here as a non-typical iPhone user, ie one who is interested in technology. Lets remember how many (many, many) millions of iOS devices are in use and realise that they are designed for everyone except us. Spec-list-comparators need not apply. Yet for the first time since my iPhone 3G, I agonised over whether to get an iPhone 5 or an S3. Today I feel exonerated, seeing how the maligned navigation tool performed (beautifully, blending in with the music and activating during the lockscreen to show me upcoming turns). It just felt vastly more capable and reliable than navigation on my Android, and I always thought that the best I had used. There's just something in the experience of using the iPhone that can't be explicated in a gadget review...

Getting back to the subject however... if you drop things, they break. Now that you know that your iPhone 5 might survive a small fall undamaged - are you likely to be any less careful? Probably not. It's like these ridiculous videos of people scratching the back with keys and coins and rings...! Is it really any wonder at all that scratch marks appear!? Put it in a case if you want. But if you appreciate the look and feel of it 'in the nude', then just take care with it, oh and take insurance too...

 

[Bregalad]

Actually, the S3 weighs less than the 4S with ~30% bigger battery. It may have been interesting if they kept the thickness the same as the 4S and see what kind of battery capacity/life they could have gotten out of the 5.

I did not like the Pentile arrangement prior to the 1280x720 resolution screens, but you need to look at it in person instead of just talking about the technical aspects, it's actually pretty gorgeous.

Also, you do know that the major the wireless charging phones out/announced currently, Lumia 920/S3, can still be charged with a traditional cable right? A more ubiquitous cable too, micro USB. It's not one or the other.

Cheap plastic is amazingly light.

I've seen the Galaxy Nexus screen. It does look good, but that isn't the point. It's physically impossible to draw a red box 90x300 pixels in size on a Pentile display. Thus the screen resolution claim is bogus.

For the record my aging eyes can barely tell the difference between an iPad 3 display and an iPad 2 display. Just because I can't see much difference doesn't mean it isn't real.

My original post hinted, obviously too subtly, that micro USB (the ability to borrow a cable from almost any other person) is a far bigger advantage to tout than wireless charging. A wireless charging pad may not have a physical connector to the device, but in every other way it's still a "dock". Apple understands that most real people don't use docks. They don't even make one for the new iPhone/iPod touch.

 

[Taz Mangus]

* Screen resolution
* screen tech (OLED - better contrast ratio)

http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm

From the article:

We’ll examine the OLED Galaxy S III display in detail below, but here are the Highlights: the Brightness is about half of the iPhone 5 due to power limits from the lower power efficiency of OLEDs and concerns regarding premature OLED aging. The Color Gamut is not only much larger than the Standard Color Gamut, which leads to distorted and exaggerated colors, but the Color Gamut is quite lopsided, with Green being a lot more saturated than Red or Blue, which adds a Green color caste to many images. Samsung has not bothered to correct or calibrate their display colors to bring them into closer agreement with the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut, so many images appear over saturated and gaudy. Running Time on battery is less than the iPhone 5 due to the lower power efficiency of OLEDs, even given that the Galaxy S III has a much larger battery capacity and much lower Brightness.

 

[JGowan]

PIECE versus PEACE

I like your posts, but since I keep seeing "piece of mind" everywhere (FB, MR, etc), so I think it deserves a fix. I hope I didn't offend you.

Not at all. I'm surprised I did that, honestly... thanks for letting me know.

 

[viewfly]

http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm

From the article:

We’ll examine the OLED Galaxy S III display in detail below, but here are the Highlights: the Brightness is about half of the iPhone 5 due to power limits from the lower power efficiency of OLEDs and concerns regarding premature OLED aging. The Color Gamut is not only much larger than the Standard Color Gamut, which leads to distorted and exaggerated colors, but the Color Gamut is quite lopsided, with Green being a lot more saturated than Red or Blue, which adds a Green color caste to many images. Samsung has not bothered to correct or calibrate their display colors to bring them into closer agreement with the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut, so many images appear over saturated and gaudy. Running Time on battery is less than the iPhone 5 due to the lower power efficiency of OLEDs, even given that the Galaxy S III has a much larger battery capacity and much lower Brightness.

Yes this is true. The iPhone 5 has so many improvements under the hood that Apple didn't highlight much.

samy should rewrite that full page add now with some facts.