Smart Phones Comparisons

Below is the excerpt from the report from Digital Trends on its Aple iPhone 4 vs. Samsung Captivate vs. Evo 4G article.

To see which smartphone delivers the best shot for $200 U.S., Digital Trends pits Apple’s iPhone 4 against iPhone 4 against Samsung’s Captivate and HTC’s Evo 4G.

Here's below the summary of its report:

In terms of display, Apple iPhone 4 is the winner.

The screens on all three phones equate to big, bigger and biggest, with 3.5 inches on the iPhone, 4.0 on the Captivate and 4.3 on the Evo 4G. So how does the smallest one win? Find out the details here: http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/410/apple-iphone-4-vs-samsung-captivate-vs-evo-4g/

In regards to connectivity, Evo 4G is the winner.

With both the Captivate and iPhone 4 sharing AT&T’s infamously hobbled 3G network, and the Evo wearing its first-4G-phone-in-America pin, this one’s a no-brainer. Besides the sheer speed, it’s also the only one that can double as a Wi-Fi router to share connectivity with other devices.

For the Rear Camera, Apple iPhone 4 is again the winner.

The 8-megapixel camera on the Evo 4G has more resolution than both the 5-megapixel iPhone 4 and 5-megapixel Captivate, and more manual search controls, too. But that’s only one part of the story. The iPhone 4 takes better pictures than either competitor.

For Videoconferencing application, iPhone 4 is the winner.

Front-facing cameras still remain a novelty in the smartphone world, but both the iPhone 4 and HTC Evo 4G offer them, while the Captivate owners are left out in the cold. At a technical level, the Evo 4G yet again offers more resolution: 1.3 megapixels to just 0.3 megapixels (VGA resolution) on the iPhone 4. But as we’ve learned from the previous category, that number isn’t everything.

When Battery Life was compared, there is a draw between Apple iPhone 4 and Samsung Captivate.

HTC’s Evo 4G immediately gets booted from the running here. The same 4G speeds that give it killer connectivity also kill the battery in a hurry, leaving it first to run out of gas when these three phones hit the road.

Playing it by the numbers doesn’t lead to any clear-cut conclusion between the remaining contenders. Samsung rates the Captivate for five hours and 50 minutes of talk time and 340 hours of standby, while Apple rates the iPhone for seven hours of chatting and 300 hours of standby, making the Captivate the standby champ and iPhone 4 the king of talk time. While we’re inclined to favor talk time over standby, battery life seemed to play out roughly equally on these two in our real-life tests, so Digital Trends is calling it a draw.

To make the story short, the winner for Portability is Samsung Captivate it the winner, for Speed, there’s again a draw between Apple iPhone 4 and Samsung Captivate, for the storage, Samsung Captivate is the winner.

And the “Overall Winner” is the Apple iPhone 4!

The Evo 4G made an impressive showing as the very first 4G phone back in June, but as you can see, it doesn’t hold up nearly as well under the microscope in other categories – at least when stacked against the best other smartphones in the world. The real fight here is between the iPhone 4 and Samsung Captivate.