IPhone six Plus vs
iPhone six Plus vs Galaxy Note Four
Droves descended upon Apple’s Cupertino campus today for our annual look at the manufacturer’s fresh iPhone refresh. Different this year, however, was the announcement of a 2nd, larger smartphone, the iPhone six Plus. With a display measuring Five.Five inches, it’s clear that Apple’s tune is switching when it comes to overlooking the phablet category, and many see this fresh iPhone as a direct response to Samsung’s successful Galaxy Note line.
With the Galaxy Note four announced just last week, we thought a comparison inbetween the two fresh devices was apt. Here’s how they stack up.
Display & Hardware
With the increase in size from the 4-inch display that graced the iPhone Five, 5c, and 5s to the comparably massive Five.5-inch display of the iPhone six Plus, Apple has eventually passed into the area of true 1080p HD. Still, at 1920×1080 pixels, the fresh iPhone falls brief of the Galaxy Note Four’s 2560×1440 resolution. The larger Five.7-inch display of the Note four results in a Pixel density of 551ppi, greater than the 401ppi of the iPhone six Plus, a spec particularly significant to Apple and their Retina display (in this case Retina HD) marketing.
In other areas, the iPhone six Plus pales in comparison to the Note Four. Apple aficionados gets Apple’s latest A8 processing platform. Apple was typically tight-lipped about the details, but early impressions are that the chip retains a dual-core CPU and sees modest increases in processing power over the previous generation of devices (somewhere in the range of 1.4GHz). It’s 25% swifter than last year’s model and offers fifty times the spectacle of the original iPhone. But that’s comparing Apples to Apples, and we’re comparing Apples to…Samsungs.
The Note Four? Quad-core Snapdragon eight hundred five processing (and in some cases octa-core Exynos). Apple uncommonly exposes the amount of RAM in their phones, but it wouldn’t be crazy to think they chose to stick with 1GB, the same as the previous generation. Compare that to the Note Four’s 3GB of RAM. It’s a spec Apple has been seemingly reluctant to upgrade in latest years.
Apple made a big deal about the addition of NFC to this year’s iPhone line, a technology that has been common in Android phones for several years at this point. It’s a foregone conclusion that the Note four benefits from an NFC chip. Apple, however, is intensely pushing a fresh mobile payments system associated with the tech, a feature that has taken a backseat on latest Android releases (tho’ most, including the Note Four, are fully capable).
Software: Health & mobile payments
The fresh iPhone ships with iOS 8. The Galaxy Note four comes with Android Four.Four plus Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. Both Android and iOS have their benefits and shortcomings, so we won’t spend too much time expounding on the common features of the two. Suffice it to say, on a surface level the choice inbetween operating systems ultimately comes down to preference.
Apple, however, did unveil a few intriguing wrinkles to their popular mobile platform with its latest release. Namely, the fresh iPhone and iOS eight come with an enlargened concentrate on health tracking and mobile payments (via the aforementioned NFC chip). The Note four features the S Health app to meet the requests of health-conscious consumers, but its feature set admittedly looks a bit lean compared to what Apple is suggesting (including partnerships with health care providers).
Apple’s mobile payments platform Apple Pay is much like the Android counterparts we have seen before. It’s a standard tap-to-pay solution, but Apple’s decision to ultimately back a mobile wallet method is what many believe will rocket the concept into the mainstream. Its connection to the cards stored in your iTunes account brings the service to an already large base of potential users.
Both devices feature security options that include a fingerprint scanner. While the scanner introduced with the iPhone 5s featured limited functionality, thanks to iOS eight Apple is opening up its services to third-party developers, creating some intriguing potential fresh uses (including as part of the mobile payments system). Samsung’s scanner is improved in the Note four as well, and includes tie-ins to PayPal for another take on secure mobile payments.
iOS, in general, has become a bit more open in its latest release. Some would say a bit more Android-like, even. This includes Apple eventually permitting users to install third-party software keyboards (something that has been core to Android for years) as well as better integration for sharing data with third-party apps and services.
Camera
For the previous two generations of the iPhone, Apple has stood pat at 8MP for their camera, choosing instead to concentrate on improving other qualities of the sensor. The iPone six Plus again does the same, sticking with an 8MP rating for its new-and-improved pic sensor. The sensor boasts quicker focusing, better tone mapping, and improved noise reduction capable of producing pics like the one above.
On the other forearm, Samsung has steadily been upping the megapixel count with each fresh device announced. While we can argue in the comments about the actual importance of that megapixel number versus other aspects of the smartphone camera, on paper the Note Four’s 16MP camera is, at least primarily, more outstanding than the iPhone’s stagnant 8MP sensor.
Without a chance to test both in person, it’s hard to say how they will stack up exactly. Samsung has amazed with the picture quality of its latest devices, but Apple has long been lauded as the king of mobile photography, and the iPhone is their prince. We have reason to believe the iPhone six Plus will carry on this tradition, but the competition should be close.
Availability & Pricing
Apple’s fresh iPhone models go on sale via all major carriers in the US (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T) as well as many more around the globe in just under two weeks on Friday, September 19th. As the larger, slightly more premium model, the iPhone six Plus will retail commencing at $299 on-contract (compared to the Four.7-inch iPhone 6’s $199 on-contract pricing) for a 16GB model up to $499 on-contract for a whopping 128GB of storage.
As for the Note Four, exact release and pricing details have not been made available, but it is expected to launch globally later this fall for a similar compliment of carriers. All four of the US carriers are on board. The Note four could retail for $199 with its slightly more eccentric variant, the Galaxy Note Edge, priced at the $299 premium level.
So which wins head-to-head? Which has earned the right to claim your cold, hard cash? Sound off in the poll below.
IPhone six Plus vs
iPhone six Plus vs Galaxy Note Four
Droves descended upon Apple’s Cupertino campus today for our annual look at the manufacturer’s fresh iPhone refresh. Different this year, tho’, was the announcement of a 2nd, larger smartphone, the iPhone six Plus. With a display measuring Five.Five inches, it’s clear that Apple’s tune is switching when it comes to disregarding the phablet category, and many see this fresh iPhone as a direct response to Samsung’s successful Galaxy Note line.
With the Galaxy Note four announced just last week, we thought a comparison inbetween the two fresh devices was apt. Here’s how they stack up.
Display & Hardware
With the increase in size from the 4-inch display that graced the iPhone Five, 5c, and 5s to the comparably massive Five.5-inch display of the iPhone six Plus, Apple has eventually passed into the area of true 1080p HD. Still, at 1920×1080 pixels, the fresh iPhone falls brief of the Galaxy Note Four’s 2560×1440 resolution. The larger Five.7-inch display of the Note four results in a Pixel density of 551ppi, greater than the 401ppi of the iPhone six Plus, a spec particularly significant to Apple and their Retina display (in this case Retina HD) marketing.
In other areas, the iPhone six Plus pales in comparison to the Note Four. Apple aficionados gets Apple’s latest A8 processing platform. Apple was typically tight-lipped about the details, but early impressions are that the chip retains a dual-core CPU and sees modest increases in processing power over the previous generation of devices (somewhere in the range of 1.4GHz). It’s 25% swifter than last year’s model and offers fifty times the spectacle of the original iPhone. But that’s comparing Apples to Apples, and we’re comparing Apples to…Samsungs.
The Note Four? Quad-core Snapdragon eight hundred five processing (and in some cases octa-core Exynos). Apple uncommonly exposes the amount of RAM in their phones, but it wouldn’t be crazy to think they chose to stick with 1GB, the same as the previous generation. Compare that to the Note Four’s 3GB of RAM. It’s a spec Apple has been seemingly reluctant to upgrade in latest years.
Apple made a big deal about the addition of NFC to this year’s iPhone line, a technology that has been common in Android phones for several years at this point. It’s a foregone conclusion that the Note four benefits from an NFC chip. Apple, however, is powerfully pushing a fresh mobile payments system associated with the tech, a feature that has taken a backseat on latest Android releases (tho’ most, including the Note Four, are fully capable).
Software: Health & mobile payments
The fresh iPhone ships with iOS 8. The Galaxy Note four comes with Android Four.Four plus Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. Both Android and iOS have their benefits and shortcomings, so we won’t spend too much time expounding on the common features of the two. Suffice it to say, on a surface level the choice inbetween operating systems ultimately comes down to preference.
Apple, however, did unveil a few intriguing wrinkles to their popular mobile platform with its latest release. Namely, the fresh iPhone and iOS eight come with an enlargened concentrate on health tracking and mobile payments (via the aforementioned NFC chip). The Note four features the S Health app to meet the requests of health-conscious consumers, but its feature set admittedly looks a bit lean compared to what Apple is suggesting (including partnerships with health care providers).
Apple’s mobile payments platform Apple Pay is much like the Android counterparts we have seen before. It’s a standard tap-to-pay solution, but Apple’s decision to ultimately back a mobile wallet method is what many believe will rocket the concept into the mainstream. Its connection to the cards stored in your iTunes account brings the service to an already giant base of potential users.
Both devices feature security options that include a fingerprint scanner. While the scanner introduced with the iPhone 5s featured limited functionality, thanks to iOS eight Apple is opening up its services to third-party developers, creating some intriguing potential fresh uses (including as part of the mobile payments system). Samsung’s scanner is improved in the Note four as well, and includes tie-ins to PayPal for another take on secure mobile payments.
iOS, in general, has become a bit more open in its latest release. Some would say a bit more Android-like, even. This includes Apple eventually permitting users to install third-party software keyboards (something that has been core to Android for years) as well as better integration for sharing data with third-party apps and services.
Camera
For the previous two generations of the iPhone, Apple has stood pat at 8MP for their camera, choosing instead to concentrate on improving other qualities of the sensor. The iPone six Plus again does the same, sticking with an 8MP rating for its new-and-improved photo sensor. The sensor boasts swifter focusing, better tone mapping, and improved noise reduction capable of producing pictures like the one above.
On the other forearm, Samsung has steadily been upping the megapixel count with each fresh device announced. While we can argue in the comments about the actual importance of that megapixel number versus other aspects of the smartphone camera, on paper the Note Four’s 16MP camera is, at least primarily, more awesome than the iPhone’s stagnant 8MP sensor.
Without a chance to test both in person, it’s hard to say how they will stack up exactly. Samsung has struck with the pic quality of its latest devices, but Apple has long been lauded as the king of mobile photography, and the iPhone is their prince. We have reason to believe the iPhone six Plus will carry on this tradition, but the competition should be close.
Availability & Pricing
Apple’s fresh iPhone models go on sale via all major carriers in the US (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T) as well as many more around the globe in just under two weeks on Friday, September 19th. As the larger, slightly more premium model, the iPhone six Plus will retail embarking at $299 on-contract (compared to the Four.7-inch iPhone 6’s $199 on-contract pricing) for a 16GB model up to $499 on-contract for a whopping 128GB of storage.
As for the Note Four, exact release and pricing details have not been made available, but it is expected to launch globally later this fall for a similar compliment of carriers. All four of the US carriers are on board. The Note four could retail for $199 with its slightly more eccentric variant, the Galaxy Note Edge, priced at the $299 premium level.
So which wins head-to-head? Which has earned the right to claim your cold, hard cash? Sound off in the poll below.
IPhone six Plus vs
iPhone six Plus vs Galaxy Note Four
Droves descended upon Apple’s Cupertino campus today for our annual look at the manufacturer’s fresh iPhone refresh. Different this year, tho’, was the announcement of a 2nd, larger smartphone, the iPhone six Plus. With a display measuring Five.Five inches, it’s clear that Apple’s tune is switching when it comes to overlooking the phablet category, and many see this fresh iPhone as a direct response to Samsung’s successful Galaxy Note line.
With the Galaxy Note four announced just last week, we thought a comparison inbetween the two fresh devices was apt. Here’s how they stack up.
Display & Hardware
With the increase in size from the 4-inch display that graced the iPhone Five, 5c, and 5s to the comparably massive Five.5-inch display of the iPhone six Plus, Apple has ultimately passed into the area of true 1080p HD. Still, at 1920×1080 pixels, the fresh iPhone falls brief of the Galaxy Note Four’s 2560×1440 resolution. The larger Five.7-inch display of the Note four results in a Pixel density of 551ppi, greater than the 401ppi of the iPhone six Plus, a spec particularly significant to Apple and their Retina display (in this case Retina HD) marketing.
In other areas, the iPhone six Plus pales in comparison to the Note Four. Apple aficionados gets Apple’s latest A8 processing platform. Apple was typically tight-lipped about the details, but early impressions are that the chip retains a dual-core CPU and sees modest increases in processing power over the previous generation of devices (somewhere in the range of 1.4GHz). It’s 25% swifter than last year’s model and offers fifty times the spectacle of the original iPhone. But that’s comparing Apples to Apples, and we’re comparing Apples to…Samsungs.
The Note Four? Quad-core Snapdragon eight hundred five processing (and in some cases octa-core Exynos). Apple infrequently exposes the amount of RAM in their phones, but it wouldn’t be crazy to think they chose to stick with 1GB, the same as the previous generation. Compare that to the Note Four’s 3GB of RAM. It’s a spec Apple has been seemingly reluctant to upgrade in latest years.
Apple made a big deal about the addition of NFC to this year’s iPhone line, a technology that has been common in Android phones for several years at this point. It’s a foregone conclusion that the Note four benefits from an NFC chip. Apple, however, is strongly pushing a fresh mobile payments system associated with the tech, a feature that has taken a backseat on latest Android releases (however most, including the Note Four, are fully capable).
Software: Health & mobile payments
The fresh iPhone ships with iOS 8. The Galaxy Note four comes with Android Four.Four plus Samsung’s TouchWiz interface. Both Android and iOS have their benefits and shortcomings, so we won’t spend too much time expounding on the common features of the two. Suffice it to say, on a surface level the choice inbetween operating systems ultimately comes down to preference.
Apple, however, did unveil a few intriguing wrinkles to their popular mobile platform with its latest release. Namely, the fresh iPhone and iOS eight come with an enhanced concentrate on health tracking and mobile payments (via the aforementioned NFC chip). The Note four features the S Health app to meet the requests of health-conscious consumers, but its feature set admittedly looks a bit lean compared to what Apple is suggesting (including partnerships with health care providers).
Apple’s mobile payments platform Apple Pay is much like the Android counterparts we have seen before. It’s a standard tap-to-pay solution, but Apple’s decision to eventually back a mobile wallet method is what many believe will rocket the concept into the mainstream. Its connection to the cards stored in your iTunes account brings the service to an already yam-sized base of potential users.
Both devices feature security options that include a fingerprint scanner. While the scanner introduced with the iPhone 5s featured limited functionality, thanks to iOS eight Apple is opening up its services to third-party developers, creating some intriguing potential fresh uses (including as part of the mobile payments system). Samsung’s scanner is improved in the Note four as well, and includes tie-ins to PayPal for another take on secure mobile payments.
iOS, in general, has become a bit more open in its latest release. Some would say a bit more Android-like, even. This includes Apple eventually permitting users to install third-party software keyboards (something that has been core to Android for years) as well as better integration for sharing data with third-party apps and services.
Camera
For the previous two generations of the iPhone, Apple has stood pat at 8MP for their camera, choosing instead to concentrate on improving other qualities of the sensor. The iPone six Plus again does the same, sticking with an 8MP rating for its new-and-improved picture sensor. The sensor boasts quicker focusing, better tone mapping, and improved noise reduction capable of producing pics like the one above.
On the other palm, Samsung has steadily been upping the megapixel count with each fresh device announced. While we can argue in the comments about the actual importance of that megapixel number versus other aspects of the smartphone camera, on paper the Note Four’s 16MP camera is, at least originally, more incredible than the iPhone’s stagnant 8MP sensor.
Without a chance to test both in person, it’s hard to say how they will stack up exactly. Samsung has struck with the picture quality of its latest devices, but Apple has long been lauded as the king of mobile photography, and the iPhone is their prince. We have reason to believe the iPhone six Plus will carry on this tradition, but the competition should be close.
Availability & Pricing
Apple’s fresh iPhone models go on sale via all major carriers in the US (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T) as well as many more around the globe in just under two weeks on Friday, September 19th. As the larger, slightly more premium model, the iPhone six Plus will retail commencing at $299 on-contract (compared to the Four.7-inch iPhone 6’s $199 on-contract pricing) for a 16GB model up to $499 on-contract for a whopping 128GB of storage.
As for the Note Four, exact release and pricing details have not been made available, but it is expected to launch globally later this fall for a similar compliment of carriers. All four of the US carriers are on board. The Note four could retail for $199 with its slightly more eccentric variant, the Galaxy Note Edge, priced at the $299 premium level.
So which wins head-to-head? Which has earned the right to claim your cold, hard cash? Sound off in the poll below.