WASHINGTON: As Samsung launched its flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S6, let’s have a quick compression with its biggest rival Apple iPhone 6.
The Galaxy S6, is easily best handset the company has made in years. While the phone packs a ton of great new features, it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s competing against that other halo phone, Apple’s iPhone 6.
Size and weight
The Galaxy S6 has a 5-inch screen measures 5.6 x 2.8 x 0.28 inches, and weighs in at just 4.7 ounces while the iPhone 6, features a smaller 4.7-inch display and measures 5.4 x 2.6 x 0.27 inches. And at 4.6 ounces, Apple’s handset and the S6 are just about the same weight.
Design
Samsung’s previous smartphones have been heavily criticized for their plastic construction and now the company went upscale, giving the phone a sleeker, more modern look.
Gone is the plastic and faux metal and its place are Gorilla Glass-coated front and rear panels and new metal frame. The phone looks like a cross between an iPhone 4 and the iPhone 6, but it works.
Since it first launched in 2007, Apple’s iPhones have widely been considered the gold standard of smartphone design, and with its thin dimensions and all-metal body, the iPhone 6 carries on that tradition with ease.
Screen
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 sports a 5.1-inch, 2560 x 1440 QHD Super AMOLED (Active Matrix of Organic Light-emitting Diodes) display that is not only sharp, but also ridiculously colorful.
Apple’s iPhone 6 comes with a smaller 4.7-inch, 1334 x 750 LED “Retina HD” display that’s among the best on the market.
And while it doesn’t have nearly as many pixels as the Galaxy S6’s screen, the iPhone 6’s panel is still incredibly sharp.
Camera
The Galaxy S6 comes with a new 16-megapixel camera that the company says will offer improved low-light image quality thanks to its f/1.2 lens aperture.
The camera is also able to capture real-time automatic high-dynamic range photos, which essentially combines two photos with different exposures to create a single image with more accurate colors.
The S6’s IR heart rate monitor can also measure ambient lighting and adjust the camera accordingly.
The S6’s camera app is also far faster than its predecessor’s, launching in less a second, and features optical image stabilization, which allows the lens to physically move to compensate for your hand shaking while taking pictures, reducing blurring.
Apple’s iPhone 6 comes with an improved 8-megapixel iSight camera with an f/2.2 aperture lens and can also capture auto HDR photos.
The iPhone 6’s camera doesn’t come with optical image stabilization, but instead relies on digital image stabilization, which uses software to compensate for blurring caused by your hands shaking.
The iPhone 6’s camera is STILL one of the best smartphone cameras you can get, offering incredibly sharp and colorful images. It’ll take a lot for the Galaxy S6 to topple the iPhone in this category.
Battery
Samsung Galaxy S6 debut with a non removable battery just like iPhone 6. The S6 also comes with a smaller battery than the Galaxy S5, 2,600 mAh versus 2,800 mAh. How exactly that will impact battery life remains to be seen, but Samsung has once again included its battery saving technology in the S6 in an effort to keep the handset going as long as possible.
Apple doesn’t mention the size of the iPhone 6’s battery, but several teardowns of the handset have revealed that it is powered by a 1,810 mAh battery. That’s smaller than the Galaxy S6’s battery, but thanks to iOS’ power management features, the iPhone 6 is still able to last an entire day.
Software
The Galaxy S6 runs on a modified version of Google’s Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system called TouchWiz, which the company says has been paired down to help make it easier to understand and less clunky.
Apple’s iPhone 6 runs on the company’s iOS 8 operating system, which has had a few major bugs since its launch.
Processor
Samsung comes with a 64-bit Exynos 7420 Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2.1 GHz Cortex-A57 chip set while Apple iPhone 6 comes with an A8 Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based) chip set.
Both smartphones come with a fingerprint sensor which are very identical to each other.
Viewing that above features, we can say that Samsung Galaxy S6 if far better smartphone than the iPhone 6.
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