Which is better iPhone (iPhone) or Samsung (Samsung) - a review of two models of different generations. iPhone SE or Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). Which smartphone is better

And I didn’t want to switch to Samsung. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't make dual-SIM phones, and I'm tired of carrying two devices. I had to switch to Samsung.

I was in a positive mood - so many years had passed since my last Samsung, technology had stepped forward, they must be making cool phones now. Moreover, a colleague has the same model, only older, and she was happy with everything. And we girls wanted a pink phone

My impressions of Samsung (mixed + and -):

1. + the box is beautiful, like an iPhone. The set includes not bad headphones with a headset, but only with one type of silicone earbuds (too big for me), a charging cable from a computer, a SIM card slot opener

   
   

2. + the phone is pleasant in the hand, smooth as a pebble, thin, glass on all sides, lightweight (whatever you like, I like heavier devices, but this one is lighter than the iPhone 4S, but heavier than the iPhone 5)
3. + I immediately bought a protective glass and a back cover (it’s very slippery and there are fingerprints on the glass), it heats up when charging, but not much, if you don’t touch it at that moment, I didn’t remove the case
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

4. + headphone jack on the bottom, much more convenient than on the top
5. - aluminum, it’s easy to get scratches on the glass or sides (I’ve never dropped the phone, but it feels like if you drop it it will shatter into pieces)
6. + bright, convex screen
7. + holds a charge well. At 15% charge it can last a couple of hours in power mode, at 5% in super power mode it can last a couple more hours... I sometimes leave the house with a 30% charge and come home with only 10%, with active use throughout the day
8. + convenient system of automatic and manual adjustment of the screen backlight
9. + SIM card slot: either you have two SIM cards, or a SIM card and additional memory. I wasn’t particularly happy with this (lots of music and photos), but there wasn’t much to choose from... It’s convenient to switch between SIM cards (I called up the top menu and just pressed a button; in the old Samsung I had to reboot for the second SIM card to work)

   

10. - if you put both Internet and calls on one SIM card, you won’t have any calls. The SIM card devotes all its energy to maintaining 4G (you can choose either 2G or 3G/4G/Lte) and it will be impossible to call you. I put the Internet on one, and calls on the other (on the first I almost always have zero or one stick)
    

    

11. + Wi-Fi connection at home is excellent, does not fall off
12. + in daylight the photos turn out to be of quite high quality, but often blurry (you have to hold your breath while shooting and double-check), the camera slows down (it seems like you’ve already pressed a button, but there’s still no photo)

    
    

13. + when using the zoom the photos are quite clear. Here's an example. I took both photos from the same place and zoomed in (with my fingers). The quality of the photo has not been lost.

    

    

14. - it works frankly crap in the dark! all photos are noisy (photo comparing Samsung A3 and iPhone 6S in a dark temple room without flash).

    

    

15. + comparison of photos on Samsung A3 and iPhone 4S. In daylight, the color in the photo is better reproduced by Samsung, more colorful photos are obtained

    

    

16. - the camera has absolutely crappy manual light adjustment. Usually you poke at the darkest place in the intended photo and the whole picture brightens. With Samsung, this only happens in the sun and then it darkens the dark part (it’s clearly visible in the photos in point 13, the lower part is black and it’s impossible to see anything). In the dark, no reaction (or very little). The iPhone does a hundred times better here, although they have the same 13-megapixel cameras. Samsung's color rendering is frankly lame. Look at the difference in the photos below; neither the gold nor the blue of the dome is particularly visible on the Samsung. And again, you can see that the bottom of the photo on the Samsung is dark, but on the iPhone the light is spread throughout the entire photo.

    

    

17. + the front camera is clearly not 5 megapixels (photo), but selfies are definitely better than those of the iPhone 4S, although they make a lot of noise in the dark and greatly distort faces and space
18. - for me the menu turned out to be very complicated after using the iPhone, it took me a long time to get used to the settings and operation of the device

    

    

19. - after three months the player stopped working - I turn on the music - it plays, I plug in the headphones - the seconds spin, but there is no sound (if you plug in the headphones without music, then all the sounds are heard, the problem is not in the connector and not in the headphones - you can hear everything perfectly on other devices ). in the official store they said: “you pressed something, delete everything to factory settings.” In response to my admonitions that I don’t go into the menu AT ALL (because I don’t understand it) and the phone just stupidly stopped playing music (I came home from work in the evening, took out my headphones and left everything in the hallway, in the morning I plug in my headphones - nothing works), They continued to claim that I pressed something. I reinstalled all the players, installed new ones - no reaction. There is no way to reset everything to factory settings - all documents, programs, passwords will be lost
20. - after three months the plug cracked, I had to seal it with electrical tape (it didn’t affect the charging operation in any way, I played it safe, but it was a shame to find a crack, I didn’t drop the charger, you can see the electrical tape in the very first photo)
21. - I bought it at the end of April, it began to slow down terribly from June:

• freezes when opening the program,
• may just stop opening a web page (even though I just opened this site),
• if the signal is weak, Wi-Fi can simply reset it, in the subway it’s difficult to connect to Wi-Fi (resets),
• often when you unlock the screen or exit to the desktop from a program, it shows an empty table (it takes about 5 seconds for it to load it), although there are few programs on the desktop

The device is made competently and beautifully. It's nice to give it to your girlfriend/wife/sister/yourself, dark models (blue, black) - for men. I was very pleased with the purchase until glitches appeared.

The device works stably, takes good photographs, all the mistakes are quite minor, but personally I am not satisfied with them. I would recommend it for purchase and give it a 4, but not to replace an iPhone, you will immediately feel the difference for the worse.

Let's try to answer a prosaic question: which is better, an iPhone or a Samsung?

Smartphone manufacturers like to call their creations alphanumeric combinations. The combination of the serial number of the model and the letter S is especially popular.

Competing manufacturers are also noted for this passion. Samsung and Apple smartphones .

The difference between the sizes of the fifth models is striking, especially when they are in the hand.

Despite the large dimensions of Korean phones, Californian ones are always somewhat slimmer. iPhone 5s is almost 2 mm thinner than its competitor, and 6 is one mm thinner.

However, this circumstance is hidden by the rounded edges of Samsung. Because of this, they visually look thinner.

In terms of weight ratio, the difference between the fives is striking - 13 grams. The Apple device is, of course, lighter. But for the sixth generation models the difference in weight is 9 grams.

It is noteworthy that of all the phones described, only one (Samsung Galaxy S5) has a removable back cover.

The sixth model of the Korean galactic flagship has a unibody body.

In the sixth Galaxy model, engineers decided to abandon not only the removable cover, but also plastic. The device is now protected on all sides by Gorilla Glass 4.

The apples, as always, have aluminum.

All devices are well-built, but the Galaxy S5 is also dust and waterproof.

For Apples, high-quality assembly is standard, but the S6 is the first monolithic device from a Korean company.

In terms of build quality and materials used, the sixth models are equal, and the fifth “Korean” is somewhat inferior to the Apple device of the same generation.

Note! The iPhone is more prone to slipping out of the palm, both the fifth and the sixth. And if in the fifth this is compensated by its compactness, then the sixth strives to “jump” out of your hands. Samsung is fine with this.

Battle of the displays

The screens of all phones are good (even the fifth models). There is nothing specifically to compare. The data on their parameters summarized in a table will be much clearer.

More detailed characteristics will be useful only to enthusiastic people. In practice, we see fairly clear screens (even at 326 pixels per inch).

Among some shortcomings of color rendering, it can be noted that the spectrum “slides” into blue, while Samsung – into red, but this does not interfere with the transmission of a rich picture.

Resolution and diagonal are also a controversial issue. The sixth generation of both devices received record-breakingly large screens.

This is an excellent solution for working with multimedia, but at the same time it mercilessly eats up battery charge .

Smartphone stuffing

It makes no sense to compare the fifth and sixth models with each other, because the continuous development of technology does not give everyone the opportunity to keep up with them, and what was a breakthrough a year and a half ago is now no longer relevant.

Processors and performance

The fifth models are equipped with A7 (iPhone) and Snapdragon 801 (Galaxy S5) processors, respectively. The first is dual-core at 1.35 GHz, the second is four-core with a clock frequency of 2.5 GHz.

Note! With such a spread in clock speed, performance is more affected by the OS. Thus, the iPhone opens native applications faster than its competitor, while Samsung opens third-party ones.

In the sixth models, Apple invariably follows traditions and uses its own dual-core A8 processor at 1.4 GHz.

The Korean company also decided to use its own processor and installed a Samsung Exynos 7420, an eight-core CPU, in the S6.

The eight cores are actually split into two quad-core processors at 1.5 and 2.1 GHz.

The less powerful chip acts as an auxiliary chip and turns on only under high loads.

Memory: operational and stationary

Which smartphone can store more information? Samsung is doing better with RAM: S5 – 2 GB, S6 – 3 GB. Both “apples” are supplied with 1 GB.

Moreover, their performance does not suffer due to excellent optimization. Only the S5 has an SD card slot (up to 128 GB).

The remaining models are offered with built-in data storage (S6 - 32/64/128 GB, 5s - 16/32/64, 6 - 16/64/128).

In this case, the actual available space for storing personal data will be slightly less, since this parameter does not take into account the OS.

Autonomy and battery

The battery capacity of both Galaxy (2550 mAh for the S6 and 2800 mAh for the S5) is almost twice that of the iPhone (1810 mAh for the 6 and 1560 for the 5s). The battery life of all devices is approximately the same.

Why is this happening?

Because the “Koreans” use more energy-intensive processors.

Each device is capable of about 260 hours of standby time, 20 hours of talk time, and about 50 hours of music playback.

Fingerprints

All presented devices are equipped with a fingerprint sensor.

And if it works fine in the older generation of Samsung and both iPhones, then the S5 is equipped with some kind of outright misunderstanding.

To do this, you need to swipe your finger across the screen.

It is impossible to do this with one hand.

I would take NOKIA..... more reliable

Of the two? Samsung.

Or throw in the tattered 50-80 euros and buy a C7 IMHO

It depends on what you need the tablet for.
If for games and multimedia, then iPad 4 will do
If you want a lot of free applications, which you can customize each one for yourself, desktop design as you like, multitasking, no restrictions on applications and blah blah blah, then Tab3 is the way to go

For me, it’s better to take Samsung.. 1) cheaper, since for Apple you will pay most of the amount just for the label... 2) Samsung is a good company

I’m just sitting with a Galaxy Tab, that’s all I use, I’ve abandoned my computer)
It’s a good thing, it has more features than the iPad, and the price is lower.
Good old Samsung is not a Chinese apple.

The N8 is not a competitor to the Galaxy S2 (it came out much earlier).
Then look towards the HTC Sensation + Galaxy S2. Read the reviews, use them and choose what you like best.


nokia!standart ka4estva!


There was, once upon a time. They have long been surpassed and sales are falling. Symbian cannot compete with Android, no way =) And Nokla is delaying the transition of her phones to the OS from Google.

• 3gs on usability.

  I have an iPhone.
  don’t like it - 1. winter will come unnoticed, and you won’t be able to talk normally on the phone, BECAUSE IT’S GENTLELY MANAGED ON AN IPHONE, your hands will freeze, you’ll have to take off your gloves
  2. You can’t set a ringtone for a call, ONLY IN RINGTONE FORMAT
  3. Bluetooth only iPhone to iPhone
  4. photos cannot be copied via iTunes, I mean photos taken from the phone itself, because when the USB is connected to the computer, it opens photos and videos as if from a flash drive. Something has gone wrong with me and now it won’t read, goodbye all the photos taken from my phone
  In short, I don’t know about Samsung, but the priority in the iPhone is only the Internet, just like on a computer you log in through Safari, and that’s all.

Design

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SIM card

The SIM card is used in mobile devices to store data that certifies the authenticity of mobile service subscribers.

Mobile networks

A mobile network is a radio system that allows multiple mobile devices to communicate with each other.

Mobile communication technologies and data transfer speeds

Communication between devices on mobile networks is carried out using technologies that provide different data transfer rates.

Operating system

An operating system is a system software that manages and coordinates the operation of hardware components in a device.

SoC (System on Chip)

A system on a chip (SoC) includes all the most important hardware components of a mobile device on one chip.

Built-in memory

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Screen

The screen of a mobile device is characterized by its technology, resolution, pixel density, diagonal length, color depth, etc.

Sensors

Different sensors perform different quantitative measurements and convert physical indicators into signals that a mobile device can recognize.

Main camera

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Additional camera

Additional cameras are usually mounted above the device screen and are used mainly for video conversations, gesture recognition, etc.

Audio

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Radio

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WiFi

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USB

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Browser

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Video file formats/codecs

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Battery

This article may seem strange to many, but nevertheless, sometimes people ask themselves this question: Which is better to buy a smartphone from Apple or Samsung? Today, prices for flagship models from both manufacturers are growing year by year. It’s hard to surprise with a price tag of 800-900 dollars for a smartphone. But not everyone can afford to spend that kind of money.

Therefore, many are beginning to look towards simpler devices, but also much cheaper ones. Today I want to compare two budget options: iPhone SE and Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017).

In order for you to make your choice, I will try to describe in detail their advantages and disadvantages.

Comparison of characteristics of iPhone SE and Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)

First, let's take a look at how the specs of the two smartphones compare. For your convenience, I have compiled a table with the main characteristics of these devices

The main differences between iPhone SE and Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)

Using the table presented above, you can only get a general picture of the characteristics, but not a final verdict on which smartphone is better. These devices were released quite a long time ago, so there is plenty of information about them.

Design

You can argue about appearance for a very long time. Everyone has different taste. iPhone SE is externally indistinguishable from the old iPhone 5s and has a 4-inch screen and compact dimensions.

Samsung A3 looks much more modern and thanks to the glass body, it looks very stylish. But because the back cover is made of glass, be prepared for the back cover to be constantly covered in fingerprints. The screen is 4.7 inches and is quite compact by today's standards, but larger than that of its direct competitor.

The screens of both devices have a number of advantages and disadvantages. Some people are crazy about the colorful Super AMOLED, while others like the natural color reproduction of Retina. There is no perfect display, and it all depends on your preferences.

Performance

This point is probably one of the most important. After all, everyone enjoys using the device. which will not lag and will cope with all everyday tasks.

The iPhone SE can handle them without any problems. Still, the hardware from the 6S has not yet lost its relevance, so even modern games will not slow down.

But unfortunately the same cannot be said about the Samsung A3. It can still cope with various applications, but you most likely won’t be able to play top games normally. The processor is quite weak today, and 2 GB of RAM in the case of Android looks ridiculous.

Camera

The front camera on the iPhone is quite old and for those who like to take selfies often - 1.2 MP will be a real disappointment. True, in good lighting it is possible to take good photographs.

But the main camera takes beautiful pictures, and given the ability to shoot 4K video, it will be extremely difficult to find something better for that kind of money.

Samsung won't be able to surprise you with anything. The front one is 8 MP, but there are many complaints about the photo quality. The rear will be a little worse and video shooting will only be possible in Full HD. True, if you want to see a real comparison of the cameras of these devices, it is better to watch videos on Youtube.

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) camera test

Battery and chips

In terms of operating time, both phones will be able to work a full working day. So you can easily complete all your tasks throughout the day and not think about the need to recharge.

Both smartphones have a fingerprint scanner built into the Home button. As for Samsung, it works even a little faster. The A3 will also please you with the presence of moisture protection according to the IP68 standard, so you don’t have to be afraid of rain or dust getting on the gadget.

Which smartphone to choose?

Both smartphones have different advantages and choosing between them is not easy.

In my opinion, Android works really well only on top-end devices. But the iPhone SE, despite its low price, has good hardware and works great even on iOS 11.

In this regard, you should choose a smartphone according to the following plan:

• Take iPhone SE. Even if it costs a little more, this overpayment is worth it. You will receive a smartphone that works well on the latest versions of iOS and a fairly high-quality camera. It will definitely delight you for several more years.
• Take Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). The main advantages include a good screen, the presence of moisture protection and perhaps that’s all. A simple budget phone from which you shouldn’t expect much and is not very relevant today.

Take Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). The main advantages include a good screen, the presence of moisture protection and perhaps that’s all. A simple budget phone from which you shouldn’t expect much and is not very relevant today.

To summarize, I want to say that when choosing between Apple and Samsung devices, look at which operating system you like best. If you used iOS before, then you should choose iPhone, and the same scheme applies to Android.

Believe me, the process of getting used to another OS will bring you little pleasure and you will scold yourself for such a choice. It is always more pleasant to work in an environment that is comfortable and understandable to you. Today, when smartphones are not inferior in hardware to each other, the ecosystem plays a decisive role.

Performance comparison between Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) and iPhone SE