KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung's Milky Way S4 smartphone has arrived, in addition to land it faces serious contest inwards the Android arena from the HTC One and the Sony Xperia Z, it also has some other competitor, Apple's iPhone 5.
The iPhone 5's dual-core 1.2GHz processor mightiness audio measly inwards comparison, but 6 months afterward the handset's liberate nosotros all the same haven't encountered whatever issues amongst the its performance. That's in all probability because all iOS apps are optimised to come about the iPhone, whereas Android applications are designed to come about hundreds of unlike smartphones.
Admittedly the iPhone five is a few months older than the Milky Way S4, but amongst its high-end specifications in addition to its continued powerfulness to attract smartphone buyers, the latest iPhone is arguably 1 of the Milky Way S4's fiercest rivals.
DesignAs nosotros pointed out inwards our Samsung Milky Way S4 review, Samsung's latest flagship smartphone failed to win us over when it comes to design.
The trouble solid hasn't budged from the blueprint strategy it introduced amongst concluding year's Samsung Milky Way S3, encasing the Milky Way S4 inwards a fully plastic casing that feels pretty inexpensive inwards the hand. We got our hands on the dark model, in addition to nosotros constitute that its flimsy battery embrace proved to live a nightmare for picking upwards fingerprints in addition to grease, in addition to its lack of suitcase oft saw us losing gibe of the Milky Way S4.
Although it feels cheap, the Milky Way S4 casing is pretty tough in addition to has protected the holler from a fair few drops in addition to most expiry experiences during our fourth dimension amongst the phone. Another bonus is the handset's size, amongst the holler standard a neat 137x71x8.6mm despite the handset's large 5in screen.
The iPhone 5, on the other hand, boasts an aluminum backplace that feels much to a greater extent than luxurious in addition to expensive than that of the Milky Way S4, despite Samsung's flagship smartphone truly costing to a greater extent than or less £50 more. It's also impressively small, weighing but 112g compared to the Milky Way S4's weight of 133g. The Samsung Milky Way S4 doesn't experience hefty, but the iPhone five volition sit down a flake to a greater extent than comfortably inwards your jeans pocket.
While the iPhone five is the clear winner when it comes to aesthetics, its aluminum casing tin live prone to picking upwards scratches, although our holler has remained pretty much unscathed hence far.
Screen
The display on the Samsung Milky Way S4 is undoubtedly 1 of the smartphone's highlights. The handset features a 5in 1080x1920 Super AMOLED covert amongst a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch (ppi), which translates to first-class vibrancy, practiced color remainder in addition to decent viewing angles, although the display did oft combat inwards brilliant sunlight. We also constitute the display wasn't quite equally brilliant equally those of some competing devices such equally the HTC One. The iPhone 5's 4in 640x1136 Retina display amongst 326ppi sounds pale inwards comparing to the amount hard disk covert constitute on the Samsung Milky Way S4. However, although the iPhone is older than the Milky Way S4, it's difficult to criticise the handset's screen, which also offers practiced viewing angles, crisp text in addition to cracking color clarity.
However, thank yous to Samsung's Super AMOLED technology, nosotros intend the Milky Way S4 mightiness border out the Iphone five amongst its deep blacks in addition to impressive color reproduction.
In damage of size, nosotros constitute ourselves to a greater extent than comfortable operating the 4in covert of the iPhone 5, amongst our fingers in addition to thumbs able to easily gain all corners of the screen. However, equally smartphone screens are becoming bigger, the Milky Way S4's larger 5in covert is probable to appeal to media hungry buyers.
Winner: Milky Way S4.
Performance
The Samsung Milky Way S4 breezes through the functioning category too, featuring a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.9GHz processor. In improver to performing good inwards benchmarking tests, the Milky Way S4 was a pleasance to use. We noticed no lag when opening apps, the holler handled multitasking good and, overall, it proved to live 1 of the fastest smartphones we've e'er used.
The Samsung Milky Way S4 breezes through the functioning category too, featuring a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.9GHz processor. In improver to performing good inwards benchmarking tests, the Milky Way S4 was a pleasance to use. We noticed no lag when opening apps, the holler handled multitasking good and, overall, it proved to live 1 of the fastest smartphones we've e'er used.
