Recently, there have been some waverers between SIII or One X
– 2 quad-core mobile phones from Samsung and HTC. Therefore, we will make a
detailed and thorough comparison so that everybody can get the strengths and
weaknesses of each product and choose for individual demand.
Let’s refer to this comparison table
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Galaxy SIII
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HTC One X
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Color
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White, Blue
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Black, Grey Black
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OS
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Android 4
Touch Wiz Interface
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Android 4
Sens 4 Interface
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Processor
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Samsung Exynos 4
Quad-core 1.4 GHz
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Tegra 3
Quad-core 1.5 GHz
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RAM
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1 GB
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1 GB
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Storage capacity
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16/32/64 GB
Expandable storage card
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32 GB
No expandable storage card
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Size
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136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm
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134.6 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm
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Weight
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133g
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130g
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Display
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4.8 inches
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4.7 inches
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Resolution
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1,280 x 720 pixel, 306 ppi
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1,280 x 720 pixel, 316 (321) ppi
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Display Technique
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HD Super Amoled
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Super LCD 2
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Front camera
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1.9 Mp
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1.3 Mp
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Back camera
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8 Mp
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8 Mp
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Video record
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1080p
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1080p
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Battery
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2100 mAh
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1800 mAh
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Accelerant Sensor
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Yes
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Yes
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Design
Samsung Galaxy SIII
Samsung Galaxy
SIII
At first sight, you will see nothing special in design, even
some consider it ugly. Unlike SII, the paths are cylindrical grinded, making it
unattractive and a little bit feminine. Samsung remains a conservative in
choosing plastic to make the back cover. The advantage is that the phone is
light and the back cover is flexible but the stature of a super-product cannot
be shown.
Despite of being made of plastic, the phone still delivers a
solid feeling. While block design is becoming trendy, but Samsung choose the
removable back cover and battery, still. This enables you to use the backup
battery or removable charge; or when you do not have enough time to wait for
the full battery.
The phone’s edge is nicely-designed, like BlackBerry Bold
99xx. It is said that the edge is made of chromium so whether it is easy to be
scratchy is unknown yet.
HTC One X
HTC One X
Traditionally, HTC uses the cylindrical-grinded design for
the 4 corners in its first quad-core phone. Unlike the former version, however,
One X has the block body, and this means that you cannot separate the battery
and SIM card is put in from the outside. Like iPhone, there is a SIM stick used
as an accessory. This design brings firm feeling of holding in palms. Despite
the 4.7 inch screen, but it is not too big to hold, because the paths stay very
next to screen. We did compare with Motorola Rarz 4.3 inch. One X is just a
little bigger. This phone created a sense of luxury, especially the white one.
Once using, if you like the appearance, this HTC may be your choice.
It would have been perfect, if the camera is not so convex.
This does not make the phone ugly, but unprotected camera will be degrading
soon. The glass is scratchy easily because of regular interacting with solid
surfaces. We have not found out any effective solution to protect the camera.
The protecting sticker may reduce the images’ quality. And a case affects the
natural beauty of the phone.
HTC uses 3 sensor key while SIII uses the physical Home key.
The physical Home key is preferable because of good response.
Interface and OS
Samsung Galaxy SIII
With Android 4.0.4 and TouchWiz interface, all the movements
in SIII are smooth, without any latency. SIII has many nice moving effects and
the water surface in Lock screen is very favorable.
Toggles bar of SIII has more options; when you scroll it
down, it will move a little bit then stop.
S Voice works quite efficiently with quick and accurate
response. It is not comparable that S voice and Siri – which is better, but I
am satisfied with S Voice because it can perform some tasks that Siri can such
as checking location, opening apps, etc.
HTC One X
Traditionally, One X has the whole Sens 4 interface. This is
my favorite interface in Android series, beautiful and advantageous.
Configuration and performance
Galaxy uses the quad-core Exynos 4 chip. This is a strong
and high-performed chip in the current market. HTC uses quad-core Tegra 3 chip
of NVIDIA. They have similar configuration, using the same 4-core Cortex A9.
However, Exynos 4 is produced based on 32nm node in comparison with 40nm of
Tegra 3 so the Exynos chip will save more energy.
Through many technology sites, the graphics chip Mali-400MP
of SIII is said to be better than ULP GeForce of One X.
HTC One X starts up more quickly than SIII because of
FastBoot.
SIII is equipped with a removable MicroSD slot so it is
expandable. One X with the block design does not have the expandable storage,
causing irritation to users somehow.
Display, and display technology
Galaxy SIII is equipped with Super Amoles screen (4.8 inch,
1280 x 720 resolution) and One X has Super IPS screen which has greater
pixel-density, better colors, vari-angle and wonderful image quality. However,
the LED which is set beneath the screen will cause a little green-stained
phenomenon when it is in the dark.
Samsung Galaxy
SIII
When SIII is official unveiled, many have a question of why
it uses the Super Amoled screen with the Pen Title technology instead of Super
Amoled Plus. Samsung officially answered: the Super Amoled Plus is not durable,
and the quality will degrade time after time. The advantage of Super Amoled is
the good contrast, especially the black. Instead of using background LED like
Super IPS, this screen can use light points which supports better display under
lack-of-light condition.
Many said that HTC One X screen was yellow-stained and SIII
had black spots. But we checked it clearly, 2 were both very good. It is
supposed that some phones have errors so you should check it clearly before
purchasing.
HTC One X
Camera
HTC One X is equipped with high-speed AF camera using image
processor chip (0.2 s) and ImageSense Technique. Users can take photos successively
then choose the best. In addition, nothing is much special. The taken photo has
unclear contrast, pale colors, purple-stained when taken outside and dazzling
in hard light.
Samsung was uncompromising when equipping SIII with a very
good camera. With 8 Mp resolution, the image quality is appreciated. Despite
slower speed of AF and taking, the contrast and color of the images are
satisfactory. Under the adequate light condition, camera delivers effulgent
colors.
GS3 has better video with 1080p. With the same displaying of
details, GS3 brings better full images with better brightness and smoother (29
frs) while One X is limited at 24fps, breaking the video.
HTC invests a lot in audio playing. With Beats Audio
Technology and provided Beast earphone, this satisfies music-listeners a lot.
In spite of being unprofessional, the accompanied earphone
SIII still has good quality as a whole with good bass.
It is difficult to tell which is better in movie watching.
Meanwhile SIII screen has better contrast and color, the HTC One X’s is
livelier.
Battery life
The battery capacity of SIII is 2100 mAh and One X is 1800
mAh. We feel that SIII’s battery is much better, maybe because of using Exynos
4 chip and Super Amoled Screen.
Galaxy SIII is strong enough to be in use in one day, with
3G and Facebook checking.
HTC is a little bit worse. You have to decide which apps in
use to remain one-day battery.
One X becomes very hot, especially the screen and camera
area when in use too much. It even becomes so hot that can heat your face when
you answer a call.
