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Currently iPhone 4S is the top of Apple’s handsets but Android has some pretty impressive breeds of its own. Samsung has done it again, with Google they have release a new handset called Galaxy Nexus running on latest Android Os, Ice Cream Sandwich. It is a tough choice iPhone or Galaxy Nexus?

Design

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1st: Galaxy Nexus : 135.5 x 67.94 x 8.94mm, 135g

2nd : iPhone 4S : 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm, 140g

We all know that the iPhone 4s is good looking piece of kit so as Galaxy Nexus,  but most people the like the phone to be light and slimmer. Galaxy Nexus might be bigger than iPhone 4S but it is lighter than iPhone 4S and  at 0.4mm thinner than iPhone, the thinness might be due to the curved shape of the phone.

Display 

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1st: Galaxy Nexus : 4.65 inch Super AMOLED HD display with a resolution of  720 x 1280 xpixels

2nd: iPhone 4S : 3.5-inch, 960x4640px, 326ppi, LCD with IPS

Is it important to have a bigger screen  or higher picel density? Nexus Galaxy screen resolution is high, even though the phone comes with a display a whole inch on the diagonal bigger than the iPhone 4S, it still manages to keep up in terms of the pixels per square inch. On to of that the Galaxy Nexus screen comes with Super AMOLED technology.

Engine Room

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1st :Galaxy Nexus :TI OMAP 4460 dual-core Cortex A9 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz

2nd :Iphone 4S : Apple A5,  (Dual-core 1GHz)

Both phones come complete with the same dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU. The difference is that, while Texas Instruments has chosen the 1.2GHz version, Apple has played it battery safe and underclocked the 1GHz model to 800MHz. On the flipside, the state of the art PowerVR SGX 543 GPU in the Apple A5 absolutely wipes the floor with the PowerVR SGX 540 from 2007 that’s still used inside the Galaxy Nexus. Yes, the Galaxy Nexus still has double the RAM of the iPhone 4S (1GB compared to 512MB) .

RAM

1st: Galaxy Nexus: 1GB RAM

2nd: iPhone 4S     : 512MB RAM

Camera

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1st: iPhone 4S       : 8MP rear, VGA (0.9MP) front, 1080p video capture

2nd: Galaxy Nexus : 5MP LED Flash rear, 1.3MP front, 1080p video capture

iPhone 4S camera is with its five glass elements, 74 per cent more light absorbed than the iPhone 4, temporal noise reduction and a maximum aperture of f/2.4, but there’s currently nothing to compare from what the world knows about the Galaxy Nexus. Is better to have more resolution on the main snapper than the front facer.

Connectivity

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1st: Galaxy Nexus  : Wi-Fi, NFC, 4G, BT 3.0, DLNA, LTE/HSPA, Wi-Fi tethering, GPS

2nd: iPhone 4S : 3G, GPS, BT, Wi-Fi, HSPA

iPhone has only HSPA+ mobile broadband offered which is trumped by the fully 4G LTE version found in the Nexus Galaxy (although only HSPA+ if you live in the UK). There’s also no NFC to play with on the iPhone 4S just in case you happen to live in a country which has a decent contactless payment infrastructure already set up.

DLNA home connectivity comes to the Nexus Galaxy via any one of the apps from the Android Market (Twonky, Skifta, etc) but you have to rely on Apple’s more guarded approach on iOS 5. Granted, there’s nothing to match the AirPlay Mirroring on the iPhone 4S where you can witness exactly what’s going on the phone’s screen on a larger TV but it, and the rest of the AirPlay fun, has to take place over Apple TV and that is seriously limiting. More flexibility and more kudos to the Nexus Galaxy.

Battery Life

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Tie : iPhone 4S : up to 8 hours  3G talk time

Tie : Galaxy Nexus :1750mAh Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G

Its a tie since both Phones has up to 8 hours talktime on 3G, although alot of people have been complaining about battery life in iPhone 4S is so bad.

Software

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Tie: Galaxy Nexus : Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Tie: iPhone 4S : iOS 5 +Siri

Android OS is constantly chaging which makes it difficulty to measure this category. Currently both phones have a fantastic software for their systems, therefore we are giving it a tie

iOS 5 is going to be more intuitive but restrictive with no DLNA nor Wi-Fi tethering possibilities and Ice Cream Sandwich is something you can fiddle with a little more but just isn't quite as effortlessly slick. The reality is that you probably already know if you’re an Android or an iOS person. You get more apps on iOS5 than Android.

Storage

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1st: iPhone 4S : 16/32/64 GB

2nd: Galaxy Nexus : 16/32GB + MicroSD

You can get up to 64 GB on iPhone while maximum you can get on Galaxy Nexus is 32GB

Price

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1st: iPhone 4S : £499 (16GB)

2nd: Galaxy Nexus :£429 plus VAT (£514.80) (16GB)

Is slighty expensive than iPhone 4S

Conclusion

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Tie: iPhone 4S

Tie: Galaxy Nexus

It was a close run and it seems to be a tie. Engine room of Galaxy Nexus is better than iPhone 4S. on the other hand the Retina Display on the iPhone 4S is excellent in its own right but if you really do think you'll want that extra real estate, then it might be that the Galaxy Nexus is more up your street.