Let’s see who is going to be the winner of today’s comparison between the new Huawei Ascend P1 S and the second generation of Galaxy S, the Samsung Galaxy S2. Therefore, why we don’t just start comparing these two Android running devices to see which phone is better than another. Let’s begin.
Form comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
For the first round, let’s compare the form and build of the two combatants.
Samsung Galaxy S2 is measured at 125.3×66.1×8.5mm and weighing of 116g, while the Huawei Ascend P1 S comes with 127.4×64.3×6.48mm and 130g of weight.
As many people know, Samsung did very well when they designing the Galaxy S’s successor. The device comes with squared-off shape and large touchscreen dominating covered by the luxurious looking glass. With only 8.5mm of thickness, the Galaxy S2 is to be considered as a thin phone while it also offers a feather-like of weight even can feel a little awkward in the user’s hands due to its size.
Samsung Galaxy S2 is a solid phone that has been assembled perfectly, so the users will never feel worry about the device will fall apart. The company has opted to build the Galaxy S with very high quality and hardwearing plastics. Unfortunately, the device still felt clumsy in the hand due to the material that is used.
Overall, despite the device is not made of aluminum, it still is a premium device.
In the meantime, the galaxy S2’s competitor, the Huawei Ascend P1 S comes with quite identical thing. The company has opted to cover the device with plastic material, but is still looked nice thanks to its sharp lines.
Since the two combatants come with quite identical stuff, there is no winner this time.
Display comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
For this round, the two combatants have been brought their fans a display with a high standard technology. The South Korean company’s phone comes with a Super AMOLED screen technology inside its .3-inch capacitive display. The technology makes the screen boasts great picture quality and intense colors.
This is not necessary to worry of the device’s screen will be scratched as the company has protected it with Gorilla Glass. The device’s screen resolution is 800×480 pixels and boasts 199PPI of pixel density.
In order to win the contest, the Huawei’s deputy brings quite similar set up to its competitor. It comes with a 4.3-inch screen with Samsung’s Super AMOLED tech and Gorilla Glass, but this time the device offers higher resolution of 960×540 pixels. This is what making the Ascend P1 S boasts higher pixel density than the Galaxy S2’s, rated at 256ppi.
Larger screen with higher resolution and pixel density, those what make the Huawei Ascend P1 S to win this battle over the Galaxy S2.
Storage comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
For this round, Samsung offers the future users a couple version of Galaxy S2. They are the 16GB and 32GB version. Both of those two versions are expandable for up to 32GB through micro SD. Apart from that, there is also support from 1GB of RAM.
In term of storage, the Ascend P1 S has to admit that its competitor offers more than it does. The device only has 4GB of internal storage and is supported the same 1GB of RAM and micro SD support.
For the storage comparison, it is clear that the Samsung device comes out as the winner.
Processor comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
If we wanted to talk about a device’s performance, it means we need to talk about the processor too. The more reliable processor planted on a device, the device will display the better performance.
As for this round, the company has equipped the Galaxy S2 with a dual core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor on Exynos chipset. Apart from that spec, there is also gaming and media performance support from Mali-400MP graphics processing unit.
In the meantime, the competitor for once more offers an identical kit. The Huawei Ascend P1 S runs ARM Cortex-A9 dual core hardware, but this time faster with clocked at 1.5GHz with a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 chipset and PowerVR SGX540 GPU, just quite similar to what is planted on Samsung Galaxy Nexus as well.
According to some sources that have been comparing the Google Nexus and the Galaxy S2, in term of handling the most intensive games and application, they have a little more faith in the combination between Exynos and Mali-400MP than OMAP and PowerVR. However, it doesn’t mean that the last combination is bad.
As for this round of comparison, the Huawei’s representative still comes out as the winner.
Operating system comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
Both Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2 are Android running phones. Despite they run the same type of operating system, the version separates these two combatants. The Samsung Galaxy S2 runs on Google’s operating system version 2.3 Gingerbread while the Ascend P1 S will be launched with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed.
Huawei Ascend P1 S seems have raised the stake by offering the Ice Cream Sandwich to the future users, but the Galaxy S2 users have the same chance as the future users of the Huawei’s phone through update that will be released around the first quarter of 2012.
The device users are going to be offered by the device a slick interface along with excellent multi-tasking and very useful quick-switching tab. There is a huge chance for full customization too.
As for the operating system comparison, it is quite clear to say that the Huawei Ascend P1 S wins this section.
Camera comparison between Huawei Ascend P1 S and Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy S2 comes with packing an 8-megapixel primary camera, which was to be considered as one of the good phone with advance camera. However, there are many premium flagship devices to sport this kind of setup.
As for the comparison, the Huawei Ascend P1 S brings the pretty similar setup an 8-megapixel rear-facer with the same 3264×2448 pixel resolution and 1080p HD video capture as the Samsung. However, when we compare the secondary camera, we can see a slight distinction. Samsung Galaxy S2 brings a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, while the competitor only offers a 1.3 megapixel camera at front.
The camera of Huawei’s phone has been also added various features that includes autofocus, geo-tagging, dual LED flash and HDR exposure control. Meanwhile, the Galaxy S2’s camera has been equipped with autofocus, touch focus, geo-tagging, image stabilisation, panoramic capture, face and smile detection, LED flash and a video light.
Verdict
The Samsung Galaxy S2 though it beats the Huawei Ascend P1 S on several section of comparison, but we can see that it is failed to show the supremacy in front of the Huawei’s phone. In this comparison, the Huawei’s deputy, the Ascend P1 S did not win the contest either, but it has proven that it can fight against the powerful device released by the famous company.
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