Apple iPhone 4 (Retina Display) vs SAMSUNG Captivate (Super AMOLED)

Until the applications available for Android are up to par with their iPhone cousins, I will continue to use my iPhone 4 a majority of the time. It's jaillbroken and can do just as much, if not more, with it than I can with the Captivate.
 
I absolutely don't agree with some people here who think that the retina display bests s. amoled only with sharper text and not the picture quality. Even comparing the same pictures side by side, the much crisper image is very evident on the iphone 4.
 
Depends which application you're talking about. Some of the applications that I know are clearly better on Android:

FourSquare, Layar, Yelp, Twitter for Android, Opera Mini 5.1, Google Maps, Google Earth, EverNote, Facebook (arguable some things better on Android, others on iPhone), GMail, Seesmic. There are apps whose capabilities have no equal on the iPhone, like Dolphin Browser, Google Sky Maps. Heck if you have seen the Tweetdeck for Android beta, it just leaves the iPhone version behind. On Google Earth, Android version, you can now go underwater and explore the ocean floor like a submarine.

Basically, once apps use geolocation, augmented reality, background/Push notifications, contacts sync, OCR or bar code recognition, talk/voice recognition/command, and link sharing, they're better on the Android side. While the Samsung GPS needs to be improved, the GPS capabilities on the Motorola and HTC Androids are just incredible, fast and pinpoint accurate.

Of course, games and some blogging apps like WordPress are better on the iPhone side for now, but for how long.
 
It's actually the ability to see the pixels...to some people VGA and QVGA screens look the same. However, I really like the colors on s. amoled.
 
To make things fair, the iPhone is as mentioned, .5 smaller with higher pixel density.. of course text will be super sharp.

If the SAMOLED panels on the GS series were the same size with the same pixel density the difference would be much smaller.
 
Man, how many times I miss an iPhone notification because its read once, then disappears with absolutely no way of return referral. By the way, Android notifications automatically take you to the app in question, which iPhone notifications often do not. So often they take you to Boxcar or something like that, because they have to handle the notifications and not the native apps.

I like widgets, especially those I see from Samsung and HTC now. They're better as apps than many of the standalones I see in both the App Store and the Market. Widgets with real time feeds allow me to be spontaneous, I see cool tweets and headlines to tweet and retweet, They provide a constant easy accessible stream of information which I can feel has a direct impact on productivity.

Intrusive notifications? Like a big window overlay appearing in the middle of a movie I'm watching? Like hell I do enjoy that? Why not run a ticker scroll on top of the bar showing the entire message like the way TV does and which Android does too.
 
The phone part on Samsung's are great, it's the radio/signal part that I always seem to have issues with. For some reason, Samsung just doesn't do well in the cellular radio department.
 
Too many screen resolutions, Android version and overlays for games and graphically intensive applications to be really good on Android right now in my opinion. Also very little quality control. THIS is the fragmentation, often mentioned, showing itself.
 
wow galaxy 5 looks amazing !

i'm actually thinking of selling my iphone 4 just to get one of these phones. Seems deadly.
 
LOL. Facebook for Android got picture notifications. Have you tried the new one? Facebook for iPhone doesn't even has this.

Facebook for Android lets you take pictures within the app, which Facebook for iPhone doesn't. Facebook for Android lets you sync Facebook friends into the contacts book, which Facebook for iPhone doesn't. Heck, in Android, you can read stream Facebook right off the interface using widgets, and I don't even have to open Facebook apps to read any new status. In my HTC right now, if someone has a Facebook update, the update notification would show right in his phone contacts page.
 
You are incorrect sir. Don't know where you are getting your information but....

1. Facebook for iPhone has let you take pics AND videos AND upload pics from your folders since WAY back. (more than a year at least)
2. Yes, you can sync your Facebook friends photos and numbers with your contact list. That's been available for over a year.
3. I have Lockinfo, so I also get notifications just like I would with my android device.

One thing I hate about the Android app is that when you are in the app and click on notifications it takes you to the Facebook website. Not a very logical set up.

Also, on the Captivate it only gives me the option to take a pic within the app. I can't upload saved pictures to my status.
 
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