Samsung Galaxy S – Your iPhone 4 Alternative

Aug. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- There’s no such thing as a perfect smartphone and even the best of its kind often reigns for just a few months.  Today, we have a real winner from the world’s second largest mobile phone maker Samsung. Considered Android’s finest smartphone that won’t blink in the presence of the formidable iPhone 4, the Samsung Galaxy S defines the start of what it means to have a superb flagship Android smartphone from here on.  

Its breath of features makes it the natural direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone 4 which was released at about the same time.  Feature for feature, it holds a candle and even trumps the iPhone in many areas.  

The Best Screen After the Retina

No smartphone on the planet can match the 4th generation iPhone’s gorgeous Retina display at 640 x 960 pixel resolution. The most they can do at this time is to have a larger screen at a Wide-VGA resolution (480 x 800) using new technologies like Super AMOLED.  

That’s what the Samsung Galaxy S has and gets the same multitouch capacitive touchscreen and 16 million colors but at a larger 4-inch display size. It’s just as brilliant and as readable under the bright midday sun as the in-plane switching LCD on the iPhone 4.  It also comes with proximity and accelerometer sensors. But the Galaxy S edges it with its Swipe text input feature.

Flagship Android Features

As the best Android smartphone todate, the Galaxy S has the following upscale features that have made it the benchmark against which future Androids will be judged.

•   The Samsung Galaxy S is powered by the same 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU used in the Apple A4 cluster that powers the iPad and the iPhone4.  Its Android v2.1 Éclair is open to upgrade as soon as Samsung re-layers the new 2.2 Froyo with its signature TouchWiz UI.
•   It’s a tri band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA on 3G and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. Local data connectivity includes local hotspot surfing with the latest WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA, the latest Bluetooth 3.0 using WiFi protocols and microUSB v2.0.
•   SatNav get a GPS receiver with A-GPS support and preloaded with Java-based digital compass and Google Maps.
•   Its imaging may sport a typical high end 5-megapixel camera with continuous autofocus, geo tagging, touch focus and face/smile detection, but its video recording is tops with 720p resolution at 30fps.  There’s also a front-facing secondary VGS camera for 3G video calls.  
•   Onboard memory gets a 512 MB RAM and 1GB ROM for its OS and application files.  User in-built memory is capped at a generous 8 GB that is supplemented by up to 32 GB of microSD external memory expandability.
•   Mobile entertainment on the Samsung Galaxy S edges the iPhone with a stereo FM radio with RDS. You get the same media players that support more of the popular audio and video files the iPhone misses out. There’s a TV out to let you watch your high resolution images and videos on a larger monitor. It doubles up as a 3.5 mm audio jack for wired stereo headphone listening on top of the A2DP profile support for wireless stereo headphones.  
•   Its 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery delivers up to 13.5 hours of talk time and 750 hours of standby time in 2G.