| Samsung Galaxy S4: Solid and Multifeatured | HTC One: The Android Phone to Beat |
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MEASURING 5.38 BY 2.75 by 0.31 inchesand weighing 4.64 ounces, the Galaxy S4 is a bit lighter and thinner than the Galaxy S3; but lacking the S3’s gentle curves, it was less comfortable to hold. The S4’s 5-inch, 1920-by-1080-pixel display (441 pixels per inch) looks sharp. The phone has a removable 2600mAh battery, and a MicroSD card slot that holds up to 64GB of extra storage. I squeezed a full day of use out of the phone on one charge, while browsing the Web, downloading apps, and taking pictures. The U.S. version of the S4 ships with a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB of RAM, so the phone can handle 3D games and other resource-heavy applications. Features include Air Preview (view the contents of folders, email, and text messages by hovering your finger a few centimeters off the screen). Air Gestures (scroll through webpages, flip through photos in the Gallery app, and answer the phone without touching the screen), Optical Reader (scan text or QR codes), S Translator (translate typed or spoken queries into any of 12 languages), and S Health (fitness tracking). Photos taken with the S4's 13-megapixel camera looked great. | THE HTC ONE sits well in your hand. At 5.4 by 2.7 by 0.4 inches, the phone is smaller than HTC’s Droid DNA. The phone comes with a 4.7-inch display and has an aluminum unibody design. A Few Drawbacks and Many Strengths The One's 2300mAh battery is nonremovable, and the phone lacks a MicroSD card slot, so you can't augment the supplied 32GB or 64GB of on-board memory. In other respects, though, the One is a multimedia powerhouse, starting with its 1920-by-1080-pixel display and two large, front-facing stereo speakers, which pump out surprisingly loud, clear audio. The One’s builtin IR blaster lets you use it as a universal remote control. Like the Galaxy S4, the One ships with a Snapdragon 600 processor. The UltraPixel design of the One's 4-megapixel camera yielded excellent photos in areas with less-than-optimal lighting. The phone’s battery should survive an entire day of normal use (about 9 hours), but playing hours of movies or games on the phone will seriously drain its battery. Call quality over Sprint's network was solid, with little or no static on either end of the call, but Sprint's data speeds in San Francisco were underwhelming. |
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