Apple iPhone 4S Vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus: which is worth your money

Galaxy Nexus is Samsung’s reply to iPhone 4S, the recent upgrade to Apple’s flagship iPhone smartphone. Both Galaxy Nexus, also the third Google Nexus phone and iPhone 4S have some peculiarities. They respectively debut new versions of the world’s leading mobile operating systems, Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Apple iOS5.

That is why Galaxy Nexus becomes a worthy rival to iPhone 4S; however. Both are super smart phones and come with best specifications. Read on to see an analytical comparison between Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Apple iPhone 4S below.

Display
Galaxy Nexus: The first Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone features a large 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED PenTile display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels at 316 ppi. The display has a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and it is certainly one of the best displays on a smartphone in the world.
Apple iPhone 4S: Though small at 3.5-inch, iPhone 4S has a superb LED-backlit IPS TFT capacitive Retina Display. It offers 640 x 960 pixels, multitouch capabilities, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass and many others.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Operating System
Galaxy Nexus: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich runs on Galaxy Nexus. It is the first device to feature Ice Cream Sandwich, Google Android’s most recent update. Ice Cream Sandwich is up with many cutting edge features like voice recognition, a great user interface and others.
Apple iPhone 4S: As you may know, iPhone 4S is the first device to get iOS 5, recent update to Apple’s famous mobile operating system. Apple iOS 5 has lots of features like iCloud cloud computing, Siri voice recognition, iMessage, Notification Center and countless others.

Winner: Apple iPhone 4S.

Processor and RAM
Galaxy Nexus: Galaxy Nexus is powered by 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4460 dual core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and 1GB of RAM. The high-end processor realizes blistering speed for the gadget.
Apple iPhone 4S: The device is equipped with a dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 that has Apple’s much-acclaimed A5 chipset and 512 MB of RAM. With A5 chip, iPhone 4S is certainly one the world’s best-performing smartphones.

Winner: Both perform almost in similar fashion

Camera
Galaxy Nexus: Galaxy Nexus has a moderate rear camera. The device mounts only a 5-megapixlel rear camera with 2592 x 1936 pixels. The camera features autofocus, single LED flash and 1080p video recording. For video calling, Galaxy Nexus rocks 1.3-megapixel front camera.
Apple iPhone 4S: The new iPhone features an 8-megapixel camera with 3264 x 2448 pixels, LED flash, autofocus, touch focus, face detection, geo-tagging and HDR. The better quality camera can take video at 1080p@30fps and it is also with features like LED video light, video stabilization and others. The iPhone also sports a VGA camera in front for video chatting.

Winner: Apple iPhone 4S

Storage
Galaxy Nexus: The Samsung phone comes with two memory options 16GB and 32GB.
Apple iPhone 4S: The new iPhone, at the same time, has landed in stores in three memory options 16GB, 32GB and a brand new 64GB.

Winner: Apple iPhone 4S.

Price
Galaxy Nexus: Verizon Wireless sells Galaxy Nexus for $199. The unlocked version of the device comes for a price of $649.
Apple iPhone 4S: Apple has three pricing options as per iPhone 4S’ memory capacities. 16GB model comes for $199, 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399.

Winner: Apple iPhone 4S

What others say?
Kristie Bertucci of GadgetReview states that Galaxy Nexus has no gusto to take on iPhone 4S,
“One of the best Androids on the market, definitely. An iPhone killer, not this time. Sorry Samsung, looks like your Galaxy Nexus didn’t exact have the gusto to take out the iPhone (at least not yet, anyways). “

Wrap-up
Apple iPhone 4S is to continue the domination of its predecessor iPhone in global mobile industry. Energized by a new version of iOS, the new iPhone seems to be the best smartphone in the world. Galaxy Nexus, however, is not proficient enough to compete with iPhone 4S. But Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has some strength, but it should get some more powerful smartphones than Galaxy Nexus.