The iPhone 4 is arguably the most popular mobile device on the market today. It receives the ridiculous amount of popularity that it seems almost everybody consider it as the best Smartphone in the world. The question is whether the iPhone 4 really deserves to be crowned as the best phone or not. Here we bring one of the newest Sony Eriksson’s’ device, Xperia Neo and stand it up with the Apple iPhone 4 to see which is the better one between the two smart phones in term of specification.
Let’s start the comparison, shall we?
First, let’s compare the phones’ form. Apple iPhone 4 has 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm – 137g of dimension and weight while Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo has 116 x 57 x 13 mm – 126g. The iPhone 4 is boasting large screen, minimalist design and sleek look, just like other Apple’s device. The device features only one button and has it back made from high-shine glass.
In the meantime the Xperia Neo also sports a large screen and worth to note for you who care about the earth it also uses a more environmentally friendly materials. The Xperia Neo is the kind of handset that you’ll be proud carrying thanks to its good looking appearance while keeping it at budget price. Here Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo edges the iPhone 4.
The second specification to be compared is the phones’ screen. The iPhone 4 is equipped with the sophisticated IPS Retina Display for their screen technology. The technology is combined with the 3.5-inch LED-backlit IPS TFT capacitive touch screen which makes the iPhone 4 boasting one of the clearest screens in the world.
The Xperia Neo also offers sophisticated technology for their screen. Sony Ericsson equips the Neo with a respectable 3.7-inch LED-backlit LCD capacitive touch screen which displays 480×854 pixels. The screen also sports a scratch-resistant surface, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and multi-touch input method. As for the extra, to gives the Neo’s user a crystal clear viewing experience Sony Ericsson has also equip the Neo with similar technology used in Sony’s high-end televisions, Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA Engine.
Both phones is equipped with sophisticated technology, a winner is quite hard to pick. However the clarity and the beauty of its screen have won this comparison for the iPhone 4.
The third specification to be compared is the phones’ camera. The iPhone 4 boast a 5-megapixel camera with 720p at 30fps for video recording. The phone is also equipped with several features such as auto focus, touch focus, geo tagging and an LED flash. For you who like to do video call, the iPhone 4 has also a secondary camera. The secondary camera will enables you to make video calls over Wi-Fi, via Apple’s FaceTime app.
While most of people will be more than just content with the iPhone 4’s camera, the Xperia Neo comes with a better offer. The Sony Ericsson’s phone boasts an 8-megapixel camera with 720p video recording. It is equipped with several features such as auto focus, touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, as well as an LED flash for photo shoot and continuous focus for video recording. As for video calling, the Xperia also offers a secondary camera, however unlike the iPhone 4’s it doesn’t depend on Wi-Fi as it run on Androids built-in video calling functionality.
For this specification Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo is a little bit ahead of the Apple’s handset.
The fourth specification to be compared is the phones’ Operating System. The iPhone runs on the iOS 4. The Operating System is famous for its user-friendliness, snappy user-interface and excellent looks. The iOS 4 seems to be the perfect OS to the handset as many positive reviewers happy with the features of this OS such as the large icons, multiple home screens and simple switching between applications. In addition the OS also allows the iPhone 4 user to access to iTunes, thus you can easily stuffing your device with wealth options of apps, music, games etc.
In the meantime the Xperia Neo runs on Gingerbread, Android version 2.3. The use of Android means the Xperia Neo’s users have the freedom to customize the handset with various options of themes, home screens, widgets and apps. As for the UI, the Neo features Sony Ericsson’s own TimeScape UI overlay. The UI has useful feature which allow you to integrate your social networking sites into your home screens.
It hard to separate the winner between the two phones for this specification, thus it’s a draw.
The fifth and also the last specification to be compared are the phones’ processor and storage. The iPhone 4 boast a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with PowerVR SGX535GPU and has either 16 or 32GB of storage with no capacity for expansion. Meanwhile the Xperia Neo is also on the same level for this specification, boasting a 1GHz Scorpion processor with Adreno GPU. The Xperia comes a little low in the storage department as it only offers 300 Mb initial storage capacities; nevertheless the capacity is expandable of to 32GB via a microSD slot
Another inseparable specification as both of them comes with 1GHz processors. It’s another draw.
To conclude the comparison, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo turns out to be the better handset in term of specification compared to the iPhone 4.
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