Samsung Galaxy S III is the most awaited Android Smartphone with its striking features and appealing performance. A fabulous job has been done by Samsung in creating its pre launch success hypes which pushed it forward towards the global announcement of its launch date. At a great extent, Samsung succeeded in executing Apple’s playbook. Lets have a look if Samsung Galaxy S III succeeds in justifying all of its hypes and a higher price tag than a better looking HTC 1X.
Samsung Galaxy S III Vs HTC 1X – Glimpse
Most of the Samsung’s smartphones look alike ,like a rectangular slab of plastic with its huge display and a home button. It never focused much on the appearance of its phones. Samsung Galaxy S III with the slight curves aroundits corners is no different from its other smartphones. To make Samsung Galaxy S III look more like a phone than a phablet, it had squeezed its bezel both from the top and bottom.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is available in 2 different colors , the white and the pebble blue. The back cover of the pebble blue S3 looks much like of a brushed metal finish because of the “hyperglazed” finish given by Samsung but the white one looks like that of a plastic.
Samsung Galaxy S III does not stand forth in front of HTC 1X in its looks. Samsung Galaxy S III because of its faux metal trimming is more prone to scratches and within a few months of its usage it would get diminished.
Samsung Galaxy S III Vs HTC 1X – Hardware
Samsung Galaxy S III may lack in its appealing look but it goes ahead with its latest hardware which satisfies its price tag.
- Exynos 4212 Quad chipset
- Quad-core 1.4 GHz processor
- 1 GB of RAM
Nvidia’s Tegra3 in Samsung Galaxy S III empowers HTC 1X in its benchmark test.
- 2,100 mAh Battery
This is the largest battery life seen on a smartphone.
- 4.8” Super AMOLED Display
There has been a lot of complains about its Pentile nature. It is only with a microscope that the sub pixels can be seen at 1280×720 pixels and at a 306ppi pixel density. HTC 1X display is preferred more under sunlight than that of Samsung Galaxy S III. The blame goes to light sensors on the SIII, which fluctuates and makes the display on a dimmer side. Currently the solution for this is to disable auto brightness setting.
Here you could see 2-faced views about Samsung Galaxy S III & HTC 1X Camera’s Performance. It had added most of the features of HTC 1X like clicking pictures while recording videos, HDR & zero-lag in snapshots, burst shot more. Samsung Galaxy S III added new features like face recognition from contact list & ‘Buddy Share’ setting in camera which shares pictures automatically with the identified people in the photograph.
HTC 1X shows better results in low light conditions & burst mode while Samsung Galaxy S III gives better detailed & crisp shots under adequate lighting. But to conclude finally, both the cameras are of high quality for its users.
Samsung Galaxy S III is lower in its internal storage with 16 GB (11.3 GB available to users) as compared to HTC 1X with 32 GB of internal storage (25 GB available to users). Samsung Galaxy S III backdrops HTC 1X in its scoring with the availability of a MicroSD Card Slot (upto 64 GB) & a free Dropbox space of 50 GB which is double than that of 1X. Samsung Galaxy S III also provides the removable battery & a Pan which is not available in 1X.
Samsung Galaxy S III Vs HTC 1X – Software
Samsung Galaxy S III comes in Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS with TouchWiz, but its easier to drag the performance & is a hit & miss affair – Ensured by Samsung. Samsung has made it a 5 icon tray in Android’s menu of fixed icons at lower tray. An icon could only be replaced by other but could not be removed. If you had to replace the 1st icon with the 2nd , first bring the 2nd icon to the homescreen and then replace the 1st icon by dragging the 2nd icon over it. But folders could not be created by dragging one icon on top of another. First you would have to create a new folder by long pressing on the homescreen, and then selecting the create folder option and then dragging icons over it.
Samsung in this smartphone provides TouchWiz on top of notification bar with 2 scrolls of quick settings options which provides users with quick & regular access to typically wanted settings.
In addition to Touchwiz are the newer applications , services & functionalities. ‘S Voice’ reminds us of Apple’s Siri. In addition to Siri it is also successful in opening some 3rd party apps. But S Voice is a bit slower in its processing time as compared to Siri.
Samsung’s another distinctive feature is its ‘Smart Stay’ . It basically uses its front camera to find whether the user is looking at its display, and if the user is looking at its display then it overrides the screen timeout setting. But there are some limitations with it – the camera is not able to detect a face in darkness, &, it should have the user’s face in the front camera of its viewfinder, it doesn’t work if the device is angled a bit away from the user.
Here comes the Pop UP Play feature which lets users to multitask while playing a video. The video player pops out and is placed on any application like web browsing or text messaging.
Samsung Galaxy S III Vs HTC 1X – Performance
Samsung Galaxy S III is the type of smartphone that one would really love to own. It is a bit different from that of HTC 1X which was disclosed when Samsung Galaxy S III was brought to MWC.
The only disappointment is Samsung Galaxy S III’s plastic body but its light weight and thin profile is attractive & appealing. Second comes the longest battery life of Samsung Galaxy S III with a huge display as compared to other smartphones. It also fulfills its promises with its power packed performance of Camera.
The Samsung Galaxy SIII
At the other side, the light sensors annoys & also the Touchwiz UI leads users to root their handsets. It is also difficult to play videos in .mov format, else everything could be played.
And here comes another question about the software updates in future. Samsung provided the update of Samsung Galaxy S II when it unveiled about the Samsung Galaxy S III. So Samsung is actually very slow when it comes to go for a software update.
Samsung Galaxy S III Vs HTC 1X – Findings
If you want to go for the top class featured smartphone, then surely go for non other than Samsung Galaxy S III. The above mentioned differences shows the better usage & benchmarks of Samsung Galaxy S III over HTC 1X. There is a little difference that matters in Samsung Galaxy S III’s pricing which is Rs.43,180(price tag value) but is available online for Rs.38,900. On the other hand the price is Rs.35,000 for HTC 1X. 1X performance is slightly slower than S3 but it does not have any impact on its faster usage.
There is such a close competition in these 2 different smartphones. Samsung Galaxy S III is the best if price is not the limiting factor otherwise go for HTC 1X.
Conclusion
Both the smart phones, Samsung galaxy SIII as well as HTC 1X are good phones. It depends on your need and features to ultimately choose between the two phones. If price is not a constraint then you should definitely go for Samsung Galaxy SIII.