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

[PeopleTheseDays]

Actually it would be the opposite, the Galaxy S 3 is more efficient because the battery is powering a larger screen, shrink the screen down to the iPhone 5's size and the battery would last EVEN LONGER.

So these are assumptions since you haven't used these phones yet? I have a Galaxy Nexus with the same screen, difference size, 4.65 vs 4.8 at 1280x720. The Nexus has a 2000 mAh battery and from personal experience, the Nexus is no competition when it comes to efficiency against my 4S for battery life, and I'm not even using the Nexus to it's full potential because I'm worried it will die by the end of the day (haven't used it for games or music regularly during the day) while I can do anything on the 4S and be confident it'll last the whole day.

The iPhone 4 was a different ballpark, it's battery life was better than both the 4S and Nexus.

 

[jrswizzle]

Actually it would be the opposite, the Galaxy S 3 is more efficient because the battery is powering a larger screen, shrink the screen down to the iPhone 5's size and the battery would last EVEN LONGER.



This reminds me of the person who lost their iPhone on Leviathan, (a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland) and it survived with a MINOR scratch on it, from 90 mph.



Not to me, it's really not as big as you guys claim it to be... I promise.


Also, to make matters clear, I'm not favoring one smartphone or the other, because I myself don't even own one yet. I think both phones are great and awesome. I'm purely giving my opinion/facts, but some of you people claiming the Galaxy is like carrying around a laptop are ridiculous...

I agree with you that they are both good phones. I've picked up and used a variety or different sized phones at various retailers. I found anything over 4.3" to be too big for me. I like to be able to use the phone with one hand without having to shift my hand or reach uncomfortably. And I don't see the draw to a bigger screen as I don't plan on watching movies on my phone....that's what my iPad (on the go) and TV (at home) are for.

 

[Rogifan]

Ah lilo777, how many years are you going to spam this board (and others) trying to convince people how awful Apple products are?

You aren't succeeding (at all), but hey, you've got determination.

You would think when the majority of someone's posts are anti-Apple the mods would kick them to the curb in a hurry. I'm not saying this site should only be for blind worshipers /fanboys, but I'll never understand why some who hate Apple spend so much time on an Apple site. Why waste your time?

 

[xero9]

Umm. Drop tests are very conclusive, yes, every drop is different in some way, but that means virtually nothing considering how many times they were dropped. If one doesn't break and the other does, it is conclusive. You don't need a million drops for that either. Take about 10-20 drops to get a conclusive idea of which is more durable.

I should rephrase that.. They can be conclusive IF done properly. A human dropping it is not going to be able to reproduce the drop equally each time. One may impact a certain part of the phone on one drop, but not on another. Basically what I took from this is best case your phone is going to get scuffed. Worst case, your phone is going to have a cracked screen. I didn't need to watch this video to know that.

 

[jrswizzle]

On a somewhat unrelated note, has anyone else noticed how absolutely awesome the EarPods are?!?! I'm a bit of a music quality stickler and I find these headphones rival my $60 skullcandy and $100 Sol Republic earbuds.

Not saying they are on par with Bose or some of the other really high end brands, but as a free set that comes with a phone (and even for $29) they truly are awesome.

If you have any of the older ones lying around do a test. listen to the EarPods for a little while then go back to the older Apple headphones. It's like going from SD to HD.

EDIT: They are also incredibly comfortable. I'll have to do the running test later but based on the importance Apple placed on them in the keynote I'd be willing to bet all the things they said about them are true.

EDIT: They are NOT however noise cancelling. Which I kind of like for everyday use and running. I like to be able to hear if someone is trying to get my attention at work or if say a car is coming as I'm running. For an airplane I'd reckon these won't be all that great, but who knows.

 

[paradox00]

Actually it would be the opposite, the Galaxy S 3 is more efficient because the battery is powering a larger screen, shrink the screen down to the iPhone 5's size and the battery would last EVEN LONGER.

Shrink the screen and case down to the iPhone 5's size and the battery wouldn't even fit.

 

[ThisIsNotMe]

besides NFC and screen size, what is the s3 better in, in terms of hardware?

Quad Core?

 

[rdstoll]

Big deal. In terms of speed, performance, camera, OS, versatility etc, etc the Galaxy S3 is better.

 

[damitssam]

* Screen resolution - Irrelevant. ppi is high enough on iPhone to not see pixels.

* screen tech (OLED - better contrast ratio) - Opinion. IPS lets me see in daylight better

* 2x more RAM - Irrelevant. I have games on my iPhone 4S that play better than on a Android device with double the RAM. It's about how the OS is designed, not how much RAM you have.

* wireless charging - Opinion. I find this to be more of a gimmick. It's not hard to just snap in a cable at the bottom in half a second. And I don't want to lug around a huge charging pad everywhere I go.

* two baseband chips (simultaneous LTE data and voice) - I agree, for Verizon and Sprint customers this is better.

* bigger battery (better battery time for talk and stand by) - Comes at the downside of a bigger screen, which is tough for one-handed use and smaller hands.

* wireless charging - You already said this but it makes your list look bigger.

* memory card (more storage) - 64GB isn't big enough for you? I do like how it's expandable though, but again, the price to pay is the size and width of the device.

One more thing. Dear Fandroids and Windows Phone geeks (and iPhone fans too by the way). SPECS DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE YOUR PHONE BETTER THAN OTHERS.

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FEATURES make phones better. What FEATURES does Iphone 5 have that I dare say the 4 doesn't have.

Why I can even use siri on my JB iphone 4. Apps work fine enough. Tell me ONE feature that I should bother upgrading for. And don't tell me aesthetics / bigger memory / faster processor. Those aren't FEATURES. Those are SPECS.

On the other hand the 920 will have wireless charging, a FLOATING lens that takes far superior pictures than any current phone, live tiles (which I find pretty damn sexy), nokia maps, and probably other things that we don't even know about yet.

 

[j4zb4]

I wonder why the Galaxy wasn't dropped a 4th time like the iPhone... The overhead drop...

 

[teejaysyke]

Shrink the screen and case down to the iPhone 5's size and the battery wouldn't even fit.

If you took the S 3 battery and instead of making it square and made it rectangle it would probably fit...

 

[jrswizzle]

Big deal. In terms of speed, performance, camera, OS, versatility etc, etc the Galaxy S3 is better.

Speed - there isn't a big difference. Some benchmarks put the iPhone ahead, some put the QUAD CORE GS3 ahead. Not really a big diff.

Performance - again, processors aren't that different, however the iPhone's graphics processing has been and is still VASTLY superior to the GS3 and just about every other smartphone out there.

Camera - They're almost the same? Not sure what you think is better about the GS3 camera. Really the only difference is the software.

OS - personal preference.

Versatility - again preference. My iPhone does everything I need it to do and more. And I haven't run across anything (worthwhile) an Android phone can do that my iPhone can't. By worth while I'm of course discounting flashing custom ROMs, "flip to mute", picture-in-picture and the rest of the GS3's gimmicky nonsense. Most of those "features" are things ANY phone could already do - easier I might add.

Etc. etc. - I'm assuming you ran out of things to say.

PREFERENCE. I prefer the iPhone, you prefer the GS3. I don't pretend to think I'm better than you or that my phone would be better for you. It is better for ME, as your phone I'm sure is better for YOU. That's all that should matter.

EDIT: And before you cry "WIDGETS!", I don't like them and rarely use them on my Nexus 7. Battery hogs and I can just as easily find the info most use those widgets for (weather, sports scores, stocks, time) by asking Siri or looking in notification center.

 

[teejaysyke]

So these are assumptions since you haven't used these phones yet? I have a Galaxy Nexus with the same screen, difference size, 4.65 vs 4.8 at 1280x720. The Nexus has a 2000 mAh battery and from personal experience, the Nexus is no competition when it comes to efficiency against my 4S for battery life, and I'm not even using the Nexus to it's full potential because I'm worried it will die by the end of the day (haven't used it for games or music regularly during the day) while I can do anything on the 4S and be confident it'll last the whole day.

The iPhone 4 was a different ballpark, it's battery life was better than both the 4S and Nexus.

There's things called research and reviews. Amongst actually using the 4S and Galaxy S 3 also

 

[jrswizzle]

FEATURES make phones better. What FEATURES does Iphone 5 have that I dare say the 4 doesn't have.

Why I can even use siri on my JB iphone 4. Apps work fine enough. Tell me ONE feature that I should bother upgrading for. And don't tell me aesthetics / bigger memory / faster processor. Those aren't FEATURES. Those are SPECS.

On the other hand the 920 will have wireless charging, a FLOATING lens that takes far superior pictures than any current phone, live tiles (which I find pretty damn sexy), nokia maps, and probably other things that we don't even know about yet.

Sounds like you should go get a Lumia 920

While features certainly make phones better, so do specs when they enhance the overall user experience. A beefier processor allows for more intense apps to be created and run. LTE improves just about everything you'd normally do on a phone. Whereas I don't see any real benefit to wireless charging. You still have a pad plugged into the wall and your phone has to make contact (or be extremely close) to charge. Meaning if you wanted to browse or make a call while you were charging you can't. Before we characterize something as FAR SUPERIOR we should probably wait until both phones are released and being used. I mean Nokia didn't even use the Lumia 920 to show off their new image stabilization feature (a similar feature the iPhone also got/improved).

Specs work with features/the OS to bring about a user experience. What consumers should do is buy the phone which gives them the best user experience based on their own research and preferences. We need to stop this pissing contest, pretending one phone is vastly superior to another. Nowadays that's really never the case - not until the REAL next big thing arrives (meaning the next big innovation in mobile tech).

 

[iosuser]

very impressive. Makes me cringe everytime these guys make these videos....OUCH

My thoughts EXACTLY. I literally cringed and it's not even my phone.

Very VERY impressive.

 

[darkfiber]

Maybe they should have waited until the iPhone 5 was out longer before releasing something like this...... not like some people waited in line for hours to get one, only to find out the store was sold out.

It is only a SINGLE iPhone 5. Breaking one (that they paid for) is hardly going to make a difference when Apple is cranking out millions of them. If anything it should comfort those who are buying a iPhone 5 that it appears to be a lot more rugged than the 4/4S was.

 

[paradox00]

If you took the S 3 battery and instead of making it square and made it rectangle it would probably fit...

Probably not. If Apple could have fit a higher capacity battery in there, they would have.

 

[jrswizzle]

Probably not. If Apple could have fit a higher capacity battery in there, they would have.

Definitely, given Samsung is one of their battery providers, they wouldn't purposefully not use a high capacity battery if the tech was available and it would fit.

They packed a TON into that thin casing. I wish people realized the engineering that actually went into it....pretty incredible.

 

[chr1s60]

I'm guessing the wider screen actually makes it more likely to crack when it drops. The Android video ale reminded me of one killer feature of the removable battery, when you drop the phone the battery and back can go flying off across the room.

 

[StyxMaker]

Yea, when he said 5'9", my initial reaction was DAMN he's short.

The average height of the American male is 5' 9.2"

 

[jcbauerca]

yup i did not know that they painted the metal .. that is never a good option... they should have used a machining process on a colored metal composite instead.. i will get the white one just to avoid the scuffing issues..

It is not painted, it is anodized but on the surface like everything else that is anodized. Once you go through the anodization the metal is white underneath. Look at all the rifles of the soldiers in Iraq. Once the anodizing worn off it is white metal. The white model is not anodized but brushed so if it gets scratched it will also show white metal, just a lower contrast than the black.

 

[MacDav]

This is like watching Jackass 7 the smartphone edition. Pathetic.

 

[chagla]

Does battery size matter if they both have similar battery life? If anything, that just proves the iPhone is much more efficient. If the iPhone has better battery life with a ~33% disadvantage in capacity, well....nuff said.

I don't understand what you're trying to say with the display comparison. Comparing resolution/screen size doesn't mean anything unless you compare ppi, which would be 326 vs 306 ppi in favor of the iPhone.

You also mixed up the RAM information between international and US.

I'll give you the FM radio though, it would be a nice feature so sure. I always figured Apple didn't want to enable that capability, even though the chipset is capable, so that people will buy music on iTunes.

iphone generally has pretty good battery life compared to android based phones. the two OS behaving differently has do with battery life. although not common these days, Nokia Symbian based phones were(are) highly energy efficient.

s3 having higher pixel and iphone having higher ppi are facts. no one looks at their phone screen inch away from their eyes. a reasonable ppi/resolution is sufficient. no?

i did mix up between different flavors of S3 though.

 

[Swissdude]

Who are these guys? Fandroids?

Well, as much as we hate to admit it, the iPhone 5 did amazingly well in our drop test, while the Samsung Galaxy S3 came out in pretty bad shape. It’s the cold hard truth that we can’t hide and we can’t ignore.
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The hard aluminum shell of the iPhone 5 withstood the impact pretty well, and the glass protecting the display remained intact. Meanwhile, the Galaxy S3 predictably lost its back cover and suffered damage to the casing and the front glass. Sad, sad, sad.

Who are these guys? Fandroids? They probably enjoyed dropping the iPhone... but where crying when the plastic phone broke he he he... Well good to know the 5er is of good quality. Will surely go and buy myself the iPhone 5.

 

[AppleScruff1]

I never you said you did. Take you Apple hatred elsewhere.

When did they put you in charge? Did the thought ever cross your mind that I could also own Apple products and not worship the company?