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Apple’s iPhone 4 against Samsung’s Captivate and HTC’s Evo 4G to see which smartphone delivers the very best bang for $200.

The summer season of the smartphone is upon us. With the arrival of a brand new messiah cellphone from Cupertino (Apple iPhone four, $200 on AT&T), the very first 4G telephone within the U.S. (HTC Evo 4G, $200 on Dash), and the quickest Android machine in the marketplace (Samsung Captivate, $200 on AT&T), smartphone consumers have by no means faced a greater slate of options - or a more confusing one.

While it’s robust to go flawed with any of these Herculean challengers, one must naturally reign supreme. We’ve pitted all three head-to-head in the most important feature classes to see which phone should call your pocket home.

Display

Winner: Apple iPhone 4

The screens on all three telephones equate to huge, larger and largest, with 3.5 inches on the iPhone, 4.0 on the Captivate and 4.three on the Evo 4G. So how does the smallest one win?

It’s not all about diagonal span. Both the Evo 4G and Samsung Captivate supply fewer pixels (800 x 480) than the iPhone 4, which quadrupled pixels from the unique iPhone to an unparalleled 960 x 640. The Captivate additionally makes use of an OLED screen. While it appears more vibrant inside, it also washes out easily in the solar, and whites swing toward an unnatural blue. While the larger dimension of the Evo 4G and Samsung Captivate is perhaps superior for watching films, we’re evaluating telephones, not media players. The iPhone’s outside livability and extremely-sharp text - something you’ll be taking a look at numerous - make it essentially the most practical of the three.

Connectivity

Winner: Evo 4G

With both the Captivate and iPhone four sharing AT&T’s infamously hobbled 3G network, and the Evo sporting its first-4G-telephone-in-America pin, this one’s a no-brainer. Moreover the sheer pace, it’s additionally the one one that may double as a Wi-Fi router to share connectivity with different devices.

For what it’s value, the second-place winner between the AT&T telephones is simply as simple to peg. Reception on the iPhone four sucks. Despite all the numbers Steve Jobs packed into a PowerPoint presentation to claim there was no drawback with the iPhone four antenna (while simultaneously saying a option to rectify the non-drawback), the collective complaints of hundreds of iPhone four users still speaks otherwise. Frequent dropped calls and notoriously poor reception make the iPhone 4 far inferior to the Captivate for making calls.

Rear Camera

Winner: Apple iPhone 4

The 8-megapixel camera on the Evo 4G has extra decision than each the 5-megapixel iPhone four and 5-megapixel Captivate, and more guide search controls, too. However that’s only one part of the story. The iPhone 4 takes higher photos than either competitor.

Credit goes to Apple’s backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, which moves the metallic traces sometimes discovered on prime of the chip to the again, blocking much less gentle and bettering general image quality. Subjectively, photos from the iPhone four look brighter with richer color. Both Computerworld and Macworld ran the iPhone 4 head to head with the Evo 4G and located it took higher photographs, and our own real-life testing confirmed that the iPhone 4 trounced the Captivate on picture quality.

Videoconferencing

Apple iPhone four

Winner: iPhone four

Front-facing cameras still stay a novelty within the smartphone world, but both the iPhone 4 and HTC Evo 4G provide them, whereas the Captivate house owners are overlooked within the cold. At a technical degree, the Evo 4G yet again affords extra decision: 1.3 megapixels to just 0.three megapixels (VGA decision) on the iPhone 4. However as we’ve realized from the earlier class, that number isn’t everything.

Bandwidth severely limits the resolution you’re really able to send over your cellphone when videoconferencing, so the Evo 4G can’t really make use of all of the decision it has on tap except it’s capturing video to record. With picture high quality almost degree, we give credit score to the iPhone four for Facetime, which lets customers initiate calls from iPhone four to iPhone 4 using common cellphone numbers - no usernames or logging in needed.
Battery Life

Winner: Draw between Apple iPhone four and Samsung Captivate

HTC’s Evo 4G instantly gets booted from the operating here. The identical 4G speeds that give it killer connectivity additionally kill the battery in a rush, leaving it first to expire of gasoline when these three phones hit the road.

Taking part in it by the numbers doesn’t lead to any clear-minimize conclusion between the remaining contenders. Samsung rates the Captivate for five hours and 50 minutes of discuss time and 340 hours of standby, whereas Apple rates the iPhone for seven hours of chatting and 300 hours of standby, making the Captivate the standby champ and iPhone four the king of talk time. While we’re inclined to favor talk time over standby, battery life appeared to play out roughly equally on these two in our real-life assessments, so we’re calling it a draw.

Portability

Winner: Samsung Captivate

Clearly, the paperweight Evo 4G is a nonstarter right here, but discovering the winner among the many two phones left standing isn’t easy.

At 2.5 inches wide and 0.39 inches thick, the Captivate fills the hand a bit more than the 2.31-inch-large iPhone (less than the width of 2 pencil), and measures 0.02 inches thicker, too (roughly the same top as 5 sheets of printer paper stacked up). Happily, it’s also 0.22 inches shorter and weighs only 4.5 ounces to the iPhone’s 4.8 ounces. Which is admittedly more important? We would favor the shorter, lighter telephone, especially when the extra flab it places on in different dimensions is nearly too small to measure.

Velocity

Samsung Captivate

Winner: Draw between Apple iPhone four and Samsung Captivate

All three telephones have processors working 1GHz, but which one really gets the job finished fastest? If solely there was a straightforward answer.

Right here’s the technical nitty gritty: The so-called A4 system-on-a-chip in the iPhone four really uses an Apple-tailor-made model of the identical ARM Cortex A8 found within the Samsung Captivate. In different words, they share the identical silicon bloodline. The Evo 4G’s 1GHz Snapdragon chip, whereas fast, doesn’t quite run in the identical pack because the A8-powered phones.

Which one delivers the perfect actual-life performance? It depends what you’re doing. In our Internet browser exams, the iPhone 4 toasted the Captivate over the identical AT&T 3G connection, however in others, together with Wi-Fi exams by PocketNow and TechnoBuffalo, the Captivate won. In other checks between widespread apps, both telephones are hit or miss. For example, the iPhone appears to open Google Maps faster, while the Captivate appears to open its digital camera app faster. In sensible phrases, they’re about as close as two smartphones come. Things to remember: The iPhone four nonetheless is not going to display Flash, so web sites will naturally load extra quickly. And if you happen to be in a 4G zone, the HTC EVO 4G can load net pages very quickly either.

Storage

Winner: Samsung Captivate

For $200, both the iPhone four and Captivate ship 16GB of inside storage, whereas the Evo 4G comes with solely 8GB, putting it out of the working right from the start.

The Captivate manages to stretch far past the iPhone four with the inclusion of a microSD slot. Besides lending flexibility (you can upgrade while you need the house, slightly than guessing whether or not you'll when you purchase the telephone), it’s additionally cheaper. Whereas it'll cost another $one hundred to get to 32GB of whole storage on the iPhone 4, you can nab a 16GB microSD card and put the Captivate on par for beneath $40. Even higher, it may expand as much as a complete of 48GB by including a 32GB microSD card, a level of storage the iPhone 4 can’t touch.
General Winner: Apple iPhone four

Apple iPhone 4

The Evo 4G made a formidable exhibiting as the very first 4G cellphone back in June, however as you may see, it doesn’t maintain up practically as nicely beneath the microscope in different categories - at the very least when stacked against the most effective different smartphones within the world. The actual battle here is between the iPhone four and Samsung Captivate.

Had Apple’s overly intelligent antenna design not blown up in its face and rattled the inspiration of the corporate’s glitch-free fame, the iPhone 4 could be a standout winner between the two. As a substitute, the Captivate’s larger storage capacity, beautiful OLED screen, rock-solid connectivity and relative parity on many different fronts carry it as near toppling the Cupertino giant as any Android system has seemingly ever come. But not fairly enough to name it an iPhone killer.

In breaking the apparent tie between the 2 gadgets (three iPhone wins, three Captivate wins, and two attracts), we had to contemplate quite a few different factors that should influence any smartphone buyer. The iPhone four has a significantly larger app library (225,000 to 70,000), a extra solid really feel, an limitless array of third-get together accessories, and traditionally, regular OS updates from Apple. (The two-12 months-old iPhone 3G can nonetheless run iOS four, whereas Samsung’s first Android machine, the Galaxy i7500, acquired such poor assist that it inspired over 7,000 signatures on a petition, and remains caught at Android 1.6.) Taking all these components under consideration, the iPhone 4 remains a greatest purchase, however with a sticky asterisk subsequent to it: Buyers who dwell in areas with poor protection - or who use their phones for enterprise and might’t merely cuss at dropped calls and name back - ought to gravitate in the direction of the Captivate’s better reception

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