This year we have seen mobile and smartphone manufacturers trying to gamble their devices, we have four flagships to explain, I'll try to explain to you all four devices based on four categories which are hardware, software, ecosysteam and camera at the end you'll be the one to decide which phone to buy in 2013.
NOTE THAT: I can not be good enough to explain all categories but i'll try my best level and if you find something missing leave a comment please...
Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphone galaxy s4 on 14th march, gs4 has 4.99 inch almost 5 inch screen display and its shape doesnt differ much with its predecessor gs3 which is why some people call it galaxy s3 s, this is the same screen display as that of Sony xperia z but contrary to htc 1 which has 4.7 inch and blackberry z10 having 4.2 inch screen display, so if you want large screen size for gaming or watching video gs4 and xperia z are for you.
Galaxy s4 is made of cheaper
plastic materials which make it less premium smartphone while htc1 made of metal (aluminium) and the Sony xperia z made of glassy design look more premium smartphones blackberry z 10 is also made of plastic but looks premium too.
Galaxy s4 uses Full HD Super AMOLED display which is the very bright display but makes difficult to see when exposed to direct sunlight making LCDs display more superior in this case..htc 1, xperia z and blackberry z 10 all use LCD display technology, i found that Full HD
Super AMOLED display is the best when displaying black text in a white background so you can choose your own display you like whether is AMOLED or LCD. Galaxy s4, htc 1 and xperia z all have the same resolution pixels 1080×1920 but they pack different ppi pixel density, htc 1 pack 469 ppi pixel density,while both gs4 and xperia z pack 441 ppi pixel density, blackberry z 10 pack 355ppi due to its comparatively low resolution of 768×1280 pixels, in this case htc 1 packs many ppi in a small screen display compared to galaxy s4 and sony xperia z, so we expect
the htc 1 to print sharp images and contain more details than the two, for this case i'll prefer to buy htc 1.
In terms of softwares galaxy s 4 is running 4.2.2 jellybean android operating system while xperia z and htc 1 will come with 4.1.2 jellybean android OS, so these two android smartphones will miss some new features like photo sphere but all other features like google now and others are the same, Blackberry z 10 running BB10 OS actually isn't better OS to stand with android OS which is the superior Operating System hitting more than 800,000 apps in its
store and making 70% in the market share but BB10 Operating system has approximately 100,000 ONLY apps in its store more than 30000 apps from android Apps so obvious misses some useful apps in its store like instagram which recently has become more popular in TANZANIA and other places, in this case i'll prefer to buy an android high end smartphone rather than a bb10 device so this is personal you can choose your.
The best thing that has attracted me in BB Z 10 is its messaging experience i took a tour to view in
details from PocketNow and PhoneArena and in doubt this is the BEST feature for BB Z 10, it integreted lists of all noticifications from almost every app of the device so makes easy to access all noticifications in just one list this resembles slightly to Samsung's ChatOn but i recommend of the BB Z 10 is the best and if you can but a smartphone for chatting purpose(Messaging) BB Z 10 is the best for you. But also i like the keyboard of the Z 10 and remember Blackberry are shifting for first time from physical keyboard to touch
keyboard, so i real like its keyboard due to wide separated letters but also one STUPID thing i dont buy in Blackberry z 10 keyboard is predictive texts these are almost useless especially when your typing fast if you use predictive text it can slower your typing speed but this is also personal someone can like this predictice text.
Android OS system offers you google now while BB 10 OS offers you siri, i prefer most google now than siri in many aspects google contains many details than siri, android OS also offers google maps
while BB 10 OS has iOS maps, i prefer again to use google maps as a legendary maping service application, iOS maps still has a lot of bugs but hopeful apple will soon fix the problems.
Galaxy s4 comes with exynos 5 octa core processor, quad-core 1.6GHz cortex -A15 plus quad-core 1.2GHz cortex-A7 or other variants quadcore 1.9GHz krait 300 so you got small cores that will work for general tasks and when you are doing gaming and more powerful operations you'll need large cores, htc 1 has qualcomm snapdragon
600 processor, is a quadcore 1.7GHz krait,BB z 10 has snapdragon s4 processor, is a dualcore processor which has 1.5GHz if you like games and you make hard operation galaxy s 4 is for you, but if you use your phone for normal operations i'll prefer you to take htc 1 because its 4 cores processor has more speed even in normal operations than the s4. All three android devices have 2GB memory (RAM) each while the Blackberry z 10 has 1GB of RAM this combination of processor and RAM makes galaxy s 4 to be more fast in powerful operations and htc 1 in
normal operations.
Actually we cant endup our comparison without speaking about camera, 2013 smartphones flagships goes with camera revolution we saw first the xperia z packed 13MPs of rear-facing camera and 2MP front camera this is the same as galaxy s4, but the htc 1 breaks the myth that the more megapixel a camera has the better the pictures and comes with only 4MP ultrapixel technology and 2.1MP front camera, blackberry z 10 has 8MP this is no wonder coz we have seen alot of last year flagships
had 8MP, personally here i would take htc 1 if i buy a smartphone for camera purposes in many aspects htc 1 produces better images than the three, its pictures contains more details than the three even in deamlight, htc 1 has a large sensor which is 1/3 inch which captures 300% more light this changes the NIGHT TO BE A DAY, all three android devices have HDR (High Dynamic Range) while bb z10 has no.
Gs4 comes with Li-Ion 2600mAh removable battery, htc 1 Li-Po 2300mAh non removable battery, sony xperia z also has 2330mAh
non removable battery and blackberry z 10 is equiped with 1800mAh removable battery, personally i like removable battery with hing mAh but this doesnt count much in strong battery, powermanagement is the factor which counts the most, managing background running applications also improves battery life as most of background running apps drains much the battery.
Gs4 uses touchwiz ui, sense v5 for htc 1, sony ui for xperia z and bb z 10 ui, i prefer touchwiz the most
because it offers me with very friendly ui like multwindows for quick access of my applications, you may like sense ui, sony's ui or bb z 10 ui its just your choice but for me touchwiz stands out there with flying clours.
Samsung offers new features to its new flagship like smartscroll and smartpause which are eye tracking functionalities, with smartpause the video stops automatically as you look away from your screen, smart scroll used when a user is reading an article then the new page will come automaticall as your eye
points at the end corner of your screen, personally these have no useful to me because i have a smartstay in my galaxy note 2 but i used it for just some days and didnt impress me any more, S-translator this is a good feature perhaps one of the best features in 2013 this translates from text to speeking and viceversa in almost all known languages. Air gestures is the s pen functionality, now you need only to hover your finger and sweep to right or left without touching your screen, IR LED (remote control) Samsung used much time to improve the so
called s-helth (read more on google), galaxy s4 also will work with gloves so this is a suitable device for cold ares like IRINGA, MBEYA AND ARUSHA especially during then winter, it can sense even if you have gloves on. The new htc 1 isn't also behind and comes with new invention and technogies the ultrapixel being the one of their invention, another thing is the design of the new htc 1 (already seen), htc 1 comes with BOOM SOUND using beats audio hope this gonna make htc fans happy and keep loving their firm,
Sony xperia z has water and dust resistance and you can sink it up to 100m for half an hour without any damage..
Personally i like android OS for its easy customizable so obvious i'll throw the blackberry z 10 out of my window and compare the three which one i can buy, but if you buy a smartphone just for messaging purpose hope Canadian based firm made a blackberry z 10 special for you. In case you like camera and good pictures as i said the new htc 1 will fit your needs but if you perform hard tasks with your smartphones i
would advice you to take galaxy s 4 as it will handle the powerfull operation and provide with you a desirable results, i case you work most of time in water like the marines hope the xperia z will fit your demand too.
This is a short comparison between the four popular flagships in 2013...
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