Comparison Between Sony Xperia S and Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Cell Phones Comparisons — By Naveen Vaidhya on May 2, 2012 at 10:51 am

You won’t be surprise after hearing that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was one of the most fiercely expected Android phones ever. Actually, there was, and still is, much of love regarding the Nexus, and in spite of few technical problems at release, we were awfully impressed by it.

Before some months the next phone that has been making lot news is Sony’s new mobile and its first away from Ericsson. The first impression that Sony Xperia S leaves is it looks amazing. With this article we decided to compare Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Sony Xperia S.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Vs Sony Xperia S

Operating System –

Samsung Galaxy Nexus –

One of the major discussion points of both devices is about which form of Android OS they are running. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was popular for being the 1^st device to use Android’s new update, Ice Cream Sandwich that promised and offered a lot.

Sony Xperia S-

The same thing cannot be said for Sony’s Xperia S, with latest device being shipped along with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update. We have received no qualms with this OS, and it has been nice OS for most of the phones we have seen in recent times, however also with the promised 4.0 update happening later in this year, we are dissatisfied.

Display –

Samsung Galaxy Nexus –

Samsung Galaxy Nexus offers a big 4.65 inch Super AMOLED capacitive multi-touch screen with an oleo phobic covering to repel smudges. It offers resolution of 1280×720 pixels that offer 316 pixels per inch pixel density for few suitably crispy visuals with lot of colour contrast and depth. Our features editor, who presently runs Galaxy Nexus, explained the screen as “nice” however “not as nice as iPhone” that looks like a good enough valuation to us.

Sony Xperia S-

Sony’s Xperia S is something that can beat iPhone by its display. It has 4.3 inch LED-backlit LCD affair and gives 10 finger multi touch support. A 1280×720 pixel resolution offers a sky-high pixel density of 342ppi that is greater than iPhone 4S and one of the brilliant smartphone displays in the market at presently. It is also sufficiently bright with its glowing colours and must fare good in bright light conditions than Samsung’s offering.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Sony Xperia S

Processor –

Samsung Galaxy Nexus –

Galaxy Nexus utilizes 1.2 GHz dual core ARM Cortex-A9 based processor on Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 chipset paired with PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit. It is a classic setup and works amazingly on with Android Ice Cream Sandwich, hence it possibly absences the top-end power of other gadgets like Galaxy S2 for surely intensive individual tasks like great performance games.

Sony Xperia S-

Sony Xperia S offer dual core as well and runs over a Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon clocked at 4.5GHz with Adreno 220 GPU to manage graphical crunch. Sony is displaying this new series of dual core phones, which is just a powerful to optimise Android 2.3 Gingerbread on 2 cores as it was one with Xperia Arc S. Sony’s this mobile really does fly on performance and its very imposing indeed.