Mobile Review

kindle fire vs ipad

Executive Summary by  Doug Gross.
 
With Amazon unveiling its much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet computer Wednesday, we may finally have a real tablet war on our hands.

In the nearly 18 months since the iPad went on sale, tablet rivals have come and gone. But Apple's device has remained dominant. Amazon's new entry, though, might be different. (Amazon didn't let reporters demo them at Wednesday's launch event.)

Price

Apple's higher prices make the Fire's price tag look like, well, a fire sale. At $199, the Kindle Fire will be a full $300 cheaper than the lowest-priced iPad 2.

Screen size

The iPad has a 9.7-inch display, compared with a 7-inch screen on the Kindle Fire.That screen size is probably a big reason Amazon can offer its tablet at $199 -- touchscreens are expensive to make. On the flip side, the Fire is smaller and 50% lighter than the iPad, and Amazon says it's "easy to hold in one hand."

Features

The Kindle Fire is definitely scaled back from the iPad 2 in several ways. The Fire doesn't have a camera. The iPad also comes in 3G models, albeit at a higher price. The Kindle Fire promises eight hours of battery life, as opposed to 10 hours for the iPad 2.

Finally, the Fire has only 8GB of storage (compared with the iPad 2's bottom end at 16GB) but makes up for it by offering free cloud storage on Amazon's gargantuan bank of servers.

Apps

The Fire will run on a modified version of Google's Android operating system. The iPad, of course, has access to more than 425,000 apps in the Apple Store. So, advantage iPad on this one.

Amazon has, of course, optimized the Fire for its own content, like streaming movies, e-books and music. The iPad has a proven track record and more bells and whistles, although that $199 Kindle Fire price is sure to tempt consumers.

Samsung Galaxi S II

The Samsung Galaxy S II is a serious smartphone.with the latest version of the Android operating system, a dual core processor. Screen with 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus. It promises to be thinner, lighter, and faster than the Galaxy S that preceded it.

The 4.3” screen evokes one word – fantastic. Super AMOLED Plus delivers better perceived resolution than Super AMOLED on the Samsung Galaxy S, since it uses a standard matrix to form an image with 50% more subpixels than the PenTile arrangement, used in the Galaxy S. The resolution stays the same - 480x800 pixels - but due to the use of a normal RGB matrix, text appears crisper in books and websites than on the Galaxy S, which has interpolated resolution of 392x653 pixels.

The Galaxy S II's screen is nothing short of spectacular. Blacks are impenetrable, colors pop out at you, and viewing angles are supreme. This would usually be the part where we'd point out that qHD (960 x 540) resolution is fast becoming the norm among top-tier smartphones

To recap the design overview we’d say that the etched edges of the 8MP camera area on the back are the only thing that sticks out of an otherwise bland plastic black chassis. The camera has an LED flash this time around, and the phone records any sounds accompanying the captured Full HD videos in stereo, thanks to the microphone duo, which also serves noise-cancellation duties.

The Games Hub offers more direct access to the premium game titles from Gameloft, which you can’t find on the Android Market, as well as some social gaming titles as well. Again, lots of free trials on offer to get you hooked before you buy, but it’s just as easy to find them using your browser.

Android should already be a familiar friend (sometimes foe) to most of you, so we'll just go ahead and dive right into what Samsung has built atop the Android 2.3.3 base on the Galaxy S II with its latest set of OS customizations, dubbed TouchWiz 4.0. For a deeper exploration of what's new and improved in the Gingerbread iteration of Google's operating system, check out our Nexus S review.

Last of all, largely because there’s little to say about it, is the battery life which is average to not so good. A full charge won’t quite get you through a day of heavy use. You’ll make it from about 7am-9pm but if you need to go on consuming video wirelessly through the night, then a lunchtime top up would be well advised.

HTC Sensation

The New Android Smartphone from HTC. HTC Sensation A hotly anticipated smartphone with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a "Super" 4.3-inch screen, and a manufacturer-skinned version of Android 2.3. it feels small. 4.3-inch smartphones, starting with HTC's own HD2, have always been impressive beasts, but beasts is what they were -- ungainly, crude, and occasionally harder to handle than an angry carp. Not so with the Sensation. This handset is only 6mm taller, a single millimeter wider, and -- at 11.3mm -- actually slightly thinner than the 4-inch HTC Incredible S. Putting aside the measuring tape and grappling with the pair confirms what those numbers suggest: the 4.3-inch Sensation is nigh indistinguishable from its more modest family mate.

The display has a 540x960-pixel resolution and a 16:9 wide-screen aspect ratio. That's plenty compared to most phones, which tend to have resolutions of around 480x800 pixels. But it's not quite on a par with the amazing sharpness of the iPhone 4's 640x960-pixel screen. Nevertheless, the screen is stunningly bright, and text on Web pages looks sharp even when you zoom in as far as you can go.


Powering the big screen is the Sensation's 1.2GHz, dual-core processor. This processor packs plenty of power for Android apps, and puts the Sensation in direct competition with the Samsung Galaxy S 2. The Super LCD on board also seems to be consuming energy with restraint, making that frankly average 1520mAh cell look very good indeed. If battery life is an important consideration in your spec-for-spec comparison with the Galaxy S II, score this as a win for the Sensation.

Sense 3.0 features whizzy 3D animations everywhere. Swiping between home screens, for example, reveals depth and layers on each HTC-designed widget. Transitions like this tend to require a surprising amount of processing power, so Sense 3.0 may not come to HTC phones with slower CPUs, such as the Desire S.

The HTC Sensation swaggers with smart-phone confidence. Its beefy metal case, huge screen, powerful dual-core processor and glossy user interface make it feel like the alpha phone in the mobile pack. Despite a few software slip-ups here and there, this phone justifies its name.

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After created wonderful debut on Android smartphone with Samsung Galaxy Spica, samsung released the higher version hardware in Android Family. Samsung i9000 Galaxy S is the rival for HTC Desire and Apple iPhone 4.

DivX HD Certified Samsung S Galaxy runs on Android 2.1 and 1 GHz application processor sporting a 4-inch AMOLED display which provides improved image quality and allows better visibility when used under direct sunlight. Its super-fast TouchWiz 3.0 user-interface (UI) provides users an instant access to their mobile lives. Powered with the rich augmented reality browser, Layar, and advanced Location Based Service (LBS) capabilities, Galaxy S is blazingly fast in performance.

Samsung Galaxy S ETA, pricing and first carrier has not been disclosed so far, but rumorologists suggests that T-Mobile could be first to get it, followed by Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and will be retailing for S$1,098 (US$775) in Asia, but might not be that high when purchased with mobile plans and after signing contracts. Though the price of Galaxy S is very high, but might capture its market share as it is the only smartphone sporting AMOLED display (Samsung Wave is another one based on Bada OS). Currently, Samsung galaxy is available for pre-order at €499.97 from Amazon Germany.

his is some details specifitaction for Samsung i9000 Galaxy S

• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
• 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
• 4″ 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) resolution
• Android OS v2.1 with TouchWiz 3.0 UI customization
• 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird CPU; 512 MB of RAM
• 5 MP autofocus camera with face, smile and blink detection
• 720p HD video recording at 30fps
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g and n support
• GPS with A-GPS connectivity; Digital compass
• 8/16GB internal storage, microSD slot
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Great audio quality
• Slim waistline at only 9.9mm thickness
• Document editor
• File manager comes preinstalled
• Secondary video-call camera
• Swype predictive text input
• Excellent choice of preinstalled applications

And this is main disadvantages on Samsung i9000 Galaxy S

• No Flash support for the web browser
• No flash for the camera
• No dedicated camera key
• The all-plastic body is a real fingerprint magnet
• Feeble loudspeaker