There's even a rumor of a 6-inch "phablet" size phone in the works. Maybe Apple will surprise us in a few days with a larger phone. Whatever the reason, the iPhone 5 - despite being taller than its siblings - now feels too small. The S4 isn't that much larger than the Galaxy Nexus. Or maybe I've gotten used to a larger-size phone as a longtime Galaxy Nexus user. In fact, I've written in the past of my distaste for the supersizing of smartphones. That bigger screen makes for a bigger phone to carry around. The example below is a side-by-side where you can better understand how the same information, with the same quality display, is larger and easier to read with the Samsung: iPhone and Galaxy S4, side-by-side Seeing the same information on a physically larger screen meant, for me, a more comfortable viewing experience. It was the physical size that really made the S4 the winner. The sharpness of what I saw on both screens felt to my eyes about the same. Here's one last example, where the higher display resolution of the S4 meant I could see just a bit more of the CNET home page: CNET home page, iPhone on the left, Galaxy S4 on the right. But here's another example, where I could read a little more of a Los Angeles Times article: LA Times article, iPhone image on the right, Galaxy S4 image on the left. They're only showing how much you can see within a particular app or Web page, not how large or tiny the information appears because of the physical size of the screens. Keep in mind that the example above and the next two below don't reflect the images in relation to physical size. For example, I didn't see much more information when looking at Twitter (the iPhone image is on the left, the Galaxy S4 on the right in the following examples): What you can see of Twitter on the iPhone 5 (left) versus the Galaxy S4 While the Samsung supposedly should display much more on its screen, I didn't find the differences that great. But in practice, I found it really about equal except for the physical size. The Galaxy S4 beats the iPhone in all the numbers. The last is the physical size of the screen, how large it is. The pixels per inch, or PPI, is how sharp the quality is. Bigger numbers mean you should be able to see more. To turn those numbers into human speak, the display resolution is how much you can see on the screen. The Galaxy S4 has a 1,920x1,080 display resolution, at 441 pixels per inch, on a 5-inch screen. My iPhone 5 has a 1,136圆40-pixel display resolution, at 326 pixels per inch, on a 4-inch screen. How do you beat the iPhone's crisp Retina screen? You make it bigger. The few iOS apps that purport to do swipe-typing seem to require writing within those apps, then copying your text into your destination app, such as Twitter or Facebook. It's also one of those differences that makes me want to use the S4 over the iPhone. So I did when starting with the S4, and it made a world of difference. Those who had the Galaxy S3 and saw my complaints about it on Twitter encouraged me to shift. For ages, I'd heard people tell me I should try it. Swype guesses at the word you were likely to want and fills it in. With Swype, you slide your finger around the keyboard without lifting it up, to spell words. I shifted to typing text with the Swype method, and now I never want to go back. When it comes to inputting text, maybe Samsung did some tweaking with the text predictions, because they seem much improved from what I found before. Rather, it's more a personal take on what I've liked and haven't. If you want that, see CNET's Galaxy S4 review here. Bear in mind this isn't meant as a formal review. Below are some of the reasons I've found it compelling. It's been much different with the Galaxy S4. These and other factors never pulled me to the phone, or away from the iPhone 4S or the Galaxy Nexus that I was regularly using then.
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But the predictive text always seemed to suggest the wrong things, plus I found the unit was pretty hard to see in bright sunlight. I never took to the Galaxy S3 when I tried it last year. I didn't expect to like the Galaxy S4, when the review unit from Samsung arrived a few weeks ago. Must-have, that is, until the Samsung Galaxy S4 came along. But on the rare occasions that I take only one, it's the iPhone that's must-have. Usually, I take two with me when going out.
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For work reasons, I need to keep up with the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms, as well as specific devices from particular makers. I'm fortunate to have several smartphones to choose from.
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