HTC Rezound vs Galaxy Nexus

[Damasterjj]

I take it you are not married.

ahem, This is the android forum!

 

[xxfallacyxx]

I take it you are not married.

Not in a technical sense no.

I do however have a trick to avoiding the cliche "will you pick me up tampons while you're at the store" scenario.

Never let them know when you're going to the store.

 

[dpham00]

I have small, even for a girl (shoe size 6) hands and the GNex doesn't feel too wide. The Rezound feels too thick, though.

Shoe size 6 isn't bad, readily available. My wife wears size 4.5 shoe, somewhat tougher to find. She says that the my Rezound and thunderbolt are too large, she is happy with her 4s.

 

[dpham00]

When you are holding something in your hand or carrying it around in your pocket or your purse all day, it matters.

If I didn't have anything else in my purse, 20 grams may not be much. But when I carry around a wallet with 5 credit cards, my driver's license, money, change, 27 discount/rewards cards, a makeup bag with 2 lipsticks, 2 glosses, mascara, powder, concealer, primer, 2 eyeliners, a package of blotting papers, lip liner, perfume, bronzer, 3 blushes, makeup remover wipes, nail polish, polish remover and q-tips, hairbrush, hairspray, hair clips, breath mints, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a nail file, cuticle clippers and 3 different kinds of tampons, an extra 20 grams is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

To me, the price was the biggest thing, the GNex was 3-4x the cost of what I paid for my Rezound. IMO, it isn't worth the added cost. I bought my phone in November and I can still return it if i wanted to.

 

[axne1]

I could of said something is better but I still stand by my opinion. These brats are meant to help people decide which phone is the right 1 for them. We all use different ways of describing our experiences with our specific devices. With that said look what this message was sent from. .

Sent using axne1's
Beastly Galaxy Nexus Prime!

 

[axne1]

I could of said something is better but I still stand by my opinion. These threads are meant to help people decide which phone is the right 1 for them. We all use different ways of describing our experiences with our specific devices. With that said look what this message was sent from. .

Sent using axne1's
Beastly Galaxy Nexus Prime!

Sent using axne1's
Beastly Galaxy Nexus Prime!

 

[jamisont]

HTC get their displays from Sony. As for the GNex's audio quality, it might sound alright......if you can actually hear it.


Sent from my iPhone 4s using Tapatalk

no HTC uses Sony S-LCD, that company is owned by Samsung and also located in samsung electronic facility in korea.
try googling s-lcd.

about audio quality.. android phone with best audio quality was galaxy S. (with wolfson DAC), then samsung switched to yamaha dac which is a disappointment. but on GNex they used TI DAC, and its quite up there as Iphone4/4s.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_nexus-review-699p5.php

try to compare it with HTC phone with beats audio/headphone

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation_xl-review-679p5.php

 

[jamisont]

This nothing to do w/ the thread topic but, since you brought this^ up and it's a similiar situation. You say they are smart and wouldn't supply a competitor w/ better hardware, correct? In case you're unaware of this. Sammy is under contract by Apple to produce the engine of the iPhone 4S. They manufacture all ARM processors in-house. Apples is spec'd as a 1ghz dual core but it's underclocked it to 800mhz. Go look at the benchmark scores of that phone vs. anything spec'd & produced by Sammy. I'll wait here, go check that out...............Notice how it slaughters their #s. Yes, hardware optimization, is a big part of it but definitely not the whole story. Knowing that and the fact that Apple is suing the bejesus out of them( and everybody else, right now). Tell me they don't make bonehead decisions.

its not sijmilar situation at all. its not matter of choice to pick unlike display.
A5 was designed by Apple and Intrinsity, so samsung can't use it for their device on their will.
about display, they're all developed by samsung so they can pick 1 they like.
perfect example would be LG display, they make both AH-IPS-LCD and Amoled, and they always use IPS LCD for their top device.

the thing is this.. samsung can compete against AH-IPS-LCD with SAMOLED HD but not with SC LCD or S-LCD cuz they lose on all aspect compare to AH-IPS-LCD.. u name it.. luminance, contrast, light reflection, view angle, tone curve, gray linearity, color temperature..

about cpu benchmarks.. benchmarks on different OS is kinda meaningless (cuz CPU, Memory and also OS does matters on speed/benchmark).
those benchmarks u see on internets arent pure cpu test.
sunspider - browser javascript test- each browser has their own javascript engine.. so it varies between versions also.
GLbench - graphic test so more related to GPU.

 

[jamisont]

here is another comparison of amoled vs slcd.


AMOLED and SLCD screens compared - Phones - CNET Asia

see they used to compare AMOLED to SLCD long time ago.
amoled display has developed alot, so is IPS LCD, but S-LCD is still same.
both IPS LCD and AMOLED improved light reflection to increase sunlight readability, view angles (for IPS), PPI (for amoled) so they're top 2 display now. (SAMOLED HD and AH-IPS-LCD)
sony uses same s-lcd but they also use software engine called bravia to make up.

 

[dpham00]

Out of curiousity, what do you think of the HTC One X? Have you seen any benchmarks on the S4 chipset? As much as I like about the GN, I could never make such a bold statement as that knowing I can unlock and root almost any phone I purchase.

One X is an ATT phone... And on ATT, will be dual core due to lte at least initially, but there are quad core versions

 

[dpham00]

even if I was on ATT, i would not get a one x due to the non removable battery!

 

[Lodingi]

One X is an ATT phone... And on ATT, will be dual core due to lte at least initially, but there are quad core versions

And that is a bummer.


Sent from my iPhone 4s using Tapatalk

 

[dpham00]

I should say stateside is an ATT phone, one x will be available in other regions as quad core, sans lte.

I suspect verizon wireless will get a variant of the one x, under its own moniker, and hopefully quad core. My guess is ATT is so desperate for LTE phones that they were willing to sacrifice quad core.

 

[b_leonard]

It's been months since I read any reviews on the subject but I'm highly skeptical any tech. reviewer would state the screen hardware on the HTC is better. It's just not true, even w/ it's minor limitations, amoled is superior use of screen technology. What you will read in every article out there is that the Rezound is the sharpest resolution phone available on this planet. Now I must ask you, show me one review that doesn't. That's a wrap folks, shows over.



This nothing to do w/ the thread topic but, since you brought this^ up and it's a similiar situation. You say they are smart and wouldn't supply a competitor w/ better hardware, correct? In case you're unaware of this. Sammy is under contract by Apple to produce the engine of the iPhone 4S. They manufacture all ARM processors in-house. Apples is spec'd as a 1ghz dual core but it's underclocked it to 800mhz. Go look at the benchmark scores of that phone vs. anything spec'd & produced by Sammy. I'll wait here, go check that out...............Notice how it slaughters their #s. Yes, hardware optimization, is a big part of it but definitely not the whole story. Knowing that and the fact that Apple is suing the bejesus out of them( and everybody else, right now). Tell me they don't make bonehead decisions.

What you said.

Sent from my DROIDX

 

[jimbl]

This is a Rezound vs Gnex thread. I have owned both. I could not in good conscious recommend the Gnex over the Rezound after using both. All the tech speak, reviews, fanboy opinions and rhetoric (for either phone on all aspects) would not change my mind. I'd tell the same thing to my best friend. I'm not saying this because I own a Rezound, I'm saying this because the Rezound is better (yes, in my opinion, but based off actual usage).

 

[Lodingi]

This is a Rezound vs Gnex thread. I have owned both. I could not in good conscious recommend the Gnex over the Rezound after using both. All the tech speak, reviews, fanboy opinions and rhetoric (for either phone on all aspects) would not change my mind. I'd tell the same thing to my best friend. I'm not saying this because I own a Rezound, I'm saying this because the Rezound is better (yes, in my opinion, but based off actual usage).

Same here.


Sent from my iPhone 4s using Tapatalk