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

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had a chance to put the iphone 4 next to the galaxy s and boy i had a tough time finding out which one is better. the iphone 4 is so bright !

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/20482/review-iphone-4-retina-display-vs-samsung-superamoled-display.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn3oN040L1Y&feature=player_embedded
 
I was at Best Buy today and had a chance to play with one of the mobile phone sales guys' Galaxy S back to back with my iPhone 4...and I decided that the iP4 display was definitely brighter and clearer, but the colors of the GS's AMOLED screen were deeper and richer. It's a toss up to me, but I definitely choose the solid build of the iP4 over the plasticky Mattel-toy feel of the Samsung, no matter what screen it has.
 
Had a hissy fit on my Galaxy S because of a crashed app causing the phone to hang temporarily but long. Smacked the phone hard against a wooden table.

Not a single scratch.

If I did the same on an iPhone I am sure I would crack it.
 
Why don't you answer this directly? Do you have a very quick way of posting to Twitter and Facebook directly? Samsung's Updates and HTC FriendStream makes that too easy, no to mention making a third post to MySpace or Plurk.
 
Samsung's display would've been much crisper if they used an RGB display instead of pentile. I too had a chance to compare both phones today, and while I love the colors on samsung, iphone's display was a LOT crisper.
 
Oops I only have an Ipod touch. Doesn't have a camera.

For some reason, there is no sync between Facebook and the Contacts on my iPod Touch. I am at iOS4.

You know one thing I hate about iPhone Facebook notifications? It just says, Mr. Who commented on your status. You're supposed to click on this to find out.

True, its annoying on the Android side that when you click on the notification, it has to bring you to a web page. But on the other hand, the Android notification would already have posted a summary of the message. So instead of saying "Mr. Who commented on your Status", it would say this plus "Yes, I saw this on the grocery yesterday too." In other words, it also posts the message, making it needless for most occasions to make a second press to bring up the notification.

And you sure don't know how to use the Captivate to the fullest.

Go to the Gallery. Here is something YOU DONT KNOW. You can upload any pic directly from the Gallery to Picasa, Facebook, Twittter, Plurk, Buzz, SMS, email, GMail, and on and on, through the SHARE button you will see on the corner of the picture. When you hit this button, a list of options goes up, standard ones plus those of social networking apps you installed on the phone.. Hit an option, part of the social app pops upwith a box ready for comment, send, the social app disappears, you're back on the Gallery.

The reason why the Facebook for Android app doesn't have pic uploads is because its redundant; the Android OS and gallery can do Facebook uploads right at the native level.

The Share is the same mechanism why I can easily share any webpage to Facebook.

Right now, I read a friend posted something in Facebook. I hit the link, browser opens. I like the link. I want to share it on Twitter. I hit Share on the browser. All the options come up. I choose a Twitter app. Title of the article is transferred automatically to the Twitter app along with the link that I don't even have to type it or even copy and paste it. In some browsers like Dolphin, you don't even have to press the URL compression like you see in Twitter apps, as the link is automatically compressed. Press send. There uploaded to Twitter.

I do this in maybe way less than a minute in one hand while walking the dogs under the sunset.

Likewise, very easy for me to repost links I find nice on Twitter to Facebook using the same process.
 
I know you can use the 'share' feature, but that has nothing to do with the Facebook Application itself. I have both phones and I can say with much certainty that the iPhone is a much more pleasurable experience and with some tweaking by using jailbroken apps, it is even better.

And to get back on topic, it's display is much better than the Captivate.
 
Nope. It has everything to do with the Facebook application. That's because in all the platforms, only on Android was the Facebook APIs made public. That's how non Facebook apps and widgets can do updates to Facebook without calling the app itself.

The Facebook Android app adds something you don't see --- Facebook Services --- into the OS. When it does that, all other apps can use these Facebook Services to sync and upload updates to Facebook. When I hit the Facebook Share from the Gallery, it pulls part of the Facebook app, which receives the pictures and waits for you to make a comment before you send it. Since it does involve the Facebook app, by all means, it has everything to do with the Facebook application itself.

As for Android, I don't have to jailbreak to do the things I would jailbreak an iPhone in order to get. This is not to mention when an iPhone is jailbroken, it is much more susceptible to all sorts of security risks. That's because you're out of the curated environment and there is no mechanism on an iPhone app that tells you what an app does internally. In short, there is no Permissions. In Android, rooted or not, even if apps are sideloaded, they still have to present the Permissions menu to you.

Well enjoy your Jailbroken iPhone anyway, until Steve Jobs decides to exercise his new patent and remote kill all jailbroken iphones.
 
No, not until Froyo comes in, which is rumored to be around end of August or September. They seem to be scheduling it faster than HTC.

Flash support on the Nexus One is flawless. Every site worked, and even recreated the unique video controls exactly. It is absolutely surreal to see embedded videos work off a mobile web page.
 
Having had both, I can say that the iPhone 4 screen is much better at displaying text and has better color saturation. The Captivate has an awesome screen as well and black actually looks black on this phone.

As for build? My iPhone 4 broke less than a week after I had it. (A fall from LESS than 6 inches while I had a rubber case on it. Yes, it was a flat surface that it fell on.). The Captivate will hold up to more bumps, drops and shakes me thinks. It's far from a 'plasticky', 'cheap' feeling phone.

Both phones are winners. If the iPhone 4 were built like the iPhone 3GS, I would probably still have it....
 
I bought the captivate today and so far I'm totally impressed with the phone! Doesn't feel cheaply built at all!!

The screen IS beautiful, but iP4's is crisper.

Also, the iP4's screen has more fluidity over the Galaxy S. However, Android has def come a long way since 1.6 that I last used!

Does the captivate have flash support ?
 
Captivate looks and feels much better than its European cousing. AT&T designers(or whoever designed it) did a really good job(plus they added a metalic back-plate).
 
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