iPhone vs Galaxy s3 Review

There's no doubt about it, the Samsung-Galaxy s3 and the Apple-Iphone5 are the top contenders on the smartphone set today.

This can be attributed to the continuing patent battle that's happening between the two companies.

Even though they are bitter rivals, both companies have managed to produce two pretty impressive handsets.

The Iphone5 was presented not too long ago with a 4inch Retina display, a thinner rectangular shape, and an upgraded processor.

At its introduction, it was confronted with the Galaxy s3, produced with its own 4.8inch touch-screen, a more streamlined form, and quad-core chip.

Here is a rundown of the two.

Design & Construction

Creating an attractive, easy to carry, durable phone is not easy; however, Apple manages to pull it off.

Yet, it is the most appealing phone available today, and the best made.

Apple has enhanced the shatter and scratch durability of the glass and more aluminum is used in the frame, which makes the iPhone 5 more resilient than the ones before it, including the Galaxy s3.

The iPhone 5 is disbelievingly lightweight considering the materials that are used to make it. At 112 grams, it's more than 20 grams less than the S3, which weighs 133 grams.

This may be because of the slenderness of Apple's phone, which is identical to the Droid-Razr's remarkable 7.6mm intensity, minus any camera-bump.

In addition, the S3 is a stunning 8.6mm wide.

Test carried out against the construction of each phone was more in the iPhone 5's corner.

They seem to resist the screen-shattering far longer than the s3, even with Samsung's insertion of Gorilla Glass, which has far more durability.
Winner: iPhone 5

SCREEN QUALITY

The Galaxy s3 and iPhone 5 highlights a longstanding debate about which screen offers the best picture quality.

After the launch of the high resolution display, or Retina, in the iPhone 4, numerous smartphone manufacturers have been trying to imitate Apple's remarkable 326 pixels per-inch screen that are founded on top-end IPS-LCD screen technology.

To offset Apple, Amoled is being used by Samsung, a variant on OLED technology.

The Galaxy s3 has the best performing AMOLED on the market.

For instance, every pixel is separately illuminated, so black-pixels appear minus any backlight.

Even though AMOLED is a favorite, those who may prefer a bit more sharpness will roll with the iPhone 5.

In all due respect, even though OLED could become the darling of displays, Apple's solid LCD wins hands down at the moment.
Winner: iPhone 5

USER INTERFACE

Regardless of the continuous lawsuits over the resemblances between Samsung and Apple products, the dissimilarities between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy s3 are startling.

Image wise, it's difficult to oppose Apple, the iOS is easy, straightforward, and filled with entertaining animations.

Galaxy s3 is trying to catch-up by pushing Android as a more reliable and exciting experience; however, it still falls short.

In many ways, the Galaxy s3 would be better if Samsung had left Android out all together. In fact, Google's latest Android-interfaces are not as radiant as iOS, nevertheless they have some clout; Samung's phone loses out on this one.
Winner: iPhone 5

OPERATING-SYSTEM FEATURES

Generally speaking, iOS is a more even and solid OS, but Android proposes more features.

The Galaxy s3 has Android, which means that it can support NFC along with more vigorous support for syncing and apps than the iPhone 5.

Galaxy's apps can carry-on in the background as long as you want.

For instance, you can email every two hours or download podcasts without bothering with the app again. In addition, the phone has a ready-to-use task manager so you can eradicate running-processes that inconvenience you.

Fundamentally, the s3 can do more when your screen is inactive or off, than the iPhone 5.

Obviously, the s3 has additional real-time features to it. Apps can be applied without showing on the screen, which is bitter-sweet.

Even though this feature is beneficial, it can ruin the s3's battery time by installing and permitting an excess amount of apps to function in the background simultaneously.

iOS does not normally have unattended apps and processes carrying on in the background, and does include a crude task-manager. The capacity to install apps beyond the Google-Play store is an added bonus of Android.
Winner: Galaxy s3

AUDIO & VIDEO

Okay, there is some controversy about the way Apple holds paid for content inside its own gadget network; yet, it still has the better ecosystem around.

iTunes is the most popular music supermarket and includes Mac or PC software to control a complete collection, which Android never had.

With the App Store; Spotify, Pandora, and many other apps can be accessed. Podcasts are also managed by a first-party-app by Apple.

The biggest shortcoming is that you may have to go to the Internet if you buy content or music in apps beyond Apple's content. Companies such as Amazon do not permit purchases on iPads or iPhones, because Apple requires 30% of the sale. Nonetheless, receiving content on the iPhone works beautifully.

The s3 is more iffy, and will require a bit of digging to find any apps you need.

Google dropped Listen, their previous podcasting app, so Android users were left on their own as far as radio is concerned.

In the meantime, the Google-Play store backs video; however, their music department does not have the liberties of Amazon's MP3 shop.

Samsung has adequate music offerings that seem to work well, mixing characteristics of Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes; however, making an imprudent deal with U.S. Cellular and AT&T, which stops anyone from using if they are not contracted with these carriers, was not a smart move.
Winner: iPhone 5

CAMERAS

The user interface on the Apple camera is extremely simple, in addition, to taking pictures that appears better than any other phone camera. The fresh Panorama mode is loads of fun to work with and it functions intuitively.

The s3 has tons of social features tacked on to its camera but the majority are only worthwhile if your friends and family member owns a Galaxy s3 as well.

On both devices video still appears a little dark, even though both have 1080p recording.
Winner: iPhone 5

BATTERY

Even though it goes an additional hour or so, it still had to be charged every night.

The Galaxy s3, has a fantastic battery. The handset's 2,100mAh battery, effortlessly goes up to two days.
Winner: Galaxy s3

CONCLUSION:

There are other features you may want to take into consideration outside of this review between Galaxy s3 and the iPhone 5.

However, iPhone 5 seems to be the gallant winner overall.

Apple's flagship-phone has some things that need to be tweaked depending on how much things like background multitasking, maps, and screen size mean to you.

Nevertheless, Apple makes up for these features by being the best built phone out there, yet again.

Their attention to detail and phone design gives the iPhone a winning streak, and even though we are all subject to our own opinions, reviews are in place to help us figure it all out.

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