How The Samsung Galaxy SIV Stacks Up Against iPhone 5 & Competitors [Spec-By-Spec]

John Brownlee (6:16 pm PDT, Mar 14th)

The Galaxy SIV is official, and it is a beautiful powerhouse of a phone with features unseen in any other device, but how does Samsung’s latest flagship phone stack up against the competition, spec-by-spec? Check out the chart below to find out.

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	Samsung Galaxy SIV	iPhone 5	Nexus 4	HTC One	BlackBerry Z10	Samsung Galaxy Note II	Sony Xperia Z
Operating System	Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean	iOS 6	Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean	Android 4.1 Jelly Bean	BlackBerry 10	Samsung Galaxy Note II	Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
Display	4.9’ 1920 x 1080 (441 PPI)	4’ 1136 x 640 Retina Display (326 PPI)	4.7’ 1280 x 768 (316 PPI)	4.7’ 1920 x 1080 (467 PPI)	4.2’ 1280 x 768 (356 PPI)	5.5’ 1280 x 720 (267 PPI)	5’ 1920 x 1080 (443 PPI)
Processor	1.8 GHz eight-core Exynos 5	1.3GHz dual-core A6	1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro	1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600	1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus	1.6GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 Quad	1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro
RAM	2GB	1GB	2GB	2GB	2GB	2GB	2GB
Storage	16/32/64GB	16/32/64GB	8/16GB	32/64GB	16GB + microSD slot	16/32/64GB	16GB + microSD slot
Camera	13MP	8MP (rear) with f2.4 + 1.3MP (front)	8MP	4MP UltraPixel	8MP	8MP	13.1MP
Dimensions	140.1 x 71.8 x 7.7mm	123.83 x 58.57 x 7.6 mm	133.9 × 68.7 × 9.1 mm	134.9 x 68.1 x 9.14mm	130 x 66 x 9.3mm	151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4mm	139 x 71 x 7.9mm
Weight	138g	112g	139g	143g	136g	183g	146g
Battery	2,600mAh	1,440 mAh, 3.8V	2,100 mAh, 3.8V	2,300 mAh	1,800 mAh	3,100 mAh, 3.8V	2,400 mAh

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Derrick Lambert
Get your Galaxy S4 specs right then I will read this. Pretty sure it runs Android 4.2.2 and you make no mention of the quality of the rear camera on the S4. If your too lazy to research its 2MP.
- dcj001
  In your (possessive) post, you mistakenly referenced the rear camera instead of the front camera as being 2MP. You’re (contraction for “you are”) welcome.
  - Derrick Lambert
    Sorry I made a typo.. Get a job…
    - dcj001
      That was not a typo. You misspelled the word. Go to school.
    - TristanWolfe
      Lol shat on bud
iPhart
Wrong GS4 specs . Here I made it for you iboys:
OS – – JB 4.2.2
Display -5″ HD
Dimensions-136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9mm (smaller device than GS3)
Storage – Plus SD support up to 64gB
Weight- only 130g (lighter than GS3)
Why so many lies?
http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Donelson/1401480685 William Donelson
“Please scroll the table” – jeez, get a web coder, why don’t you? Why abuse your readers?
http://twitter.com/Mtfr123 m
the iPhone is “Quadcore” not dual-core as written up
- OlaMedKjeppen
  Wrong, The iPhone has a dualcore
  - http://www.facebook.com/bob.smogango Bob Smogango
    Yeah, but the cores are more advanced than Samsung’s S3 Quad core. I don’t know what cores they are using for the S4. The S3 cores were A9 Cortex which is not as good as the iPhone 5′s CPUs. Which are more advanced. I think Samsung might still be using A9 Cortex CPUs, but just using 8. They did update the GPUs to similar to what Apple’s already using. Either way, I don’t care much for Samsung, so I’ll stay away from them. I just don’t like their business practices. Components Samsung does a decent job making components, it’s just they have exercised some deceitful business practices, which I don’t agree with. I think Samsung should just stick to being a component supplier instead of competing with their customers. That’s just wrong.
    - Michael Alderson
      Dude the iPhone 5 uses an A6 CPU, certainly not more advanced, its FAR behind the Galaxy Series phones
BenoitEssiambre
Man, it’s always the difficult choice of accepting Samsung bloatware in exchange for an SD card and the ability to carry your music and movies. The problem with the N4 is that you also have to buy an iPod touch and carry two devices around! It would help a bit if Google music would be available worldwide.

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John Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Android, as well as our sister site, Cult of Mac. He has written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his charming inamorata and two tiny budgerigars punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous perverts. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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