There is no doubt: Samsung and HTC will play the title of best Android smartphones of 2015 (in Waiting for LG and Sony). If the first is firmly atop the standings of the sellers of mobile phones over a full year, the Taiwanese try the super climbing after years of living in anonymity too. The chance to put pressure on both Samsung that Apple are there and are enclosed in the last M9 presented in Barcelona, a smartphone that takes up much of the previous model but renews hardware and graphical interface . Similarly the Galaxy S6 in classic version moves beyond the border of the almost perfect S5 innovating albeit to a lesser extent than they did with the variant Edge. Samsung vs HTC: Who can worry the iPhone 6 ?
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Design
If you have owned at least once a Samsung phone you know that the feeling is not much to get your hands on a jewel. Too much plastic, too much discontinuity between one section and the other, nothing compared to the elegance of LG and Sony. 2015, however, started differently as the Galaxy S6 gets a new charm thanks to a metal shell and a line much more sinuous. The transformation into a butterfly had begun with the excellent Galaxy Alpha.
HTC has made very few changes in the design already seen the M8 was distinguished style. But the more careful will not have escaped some particular: first of all the sensor on the side of the front camera before it was divided by the range speakers instead now is crescent shaped right next to the room, then the power button that was sull’M8 at the top right now is on the side, as for the iPhone 6. Both have a decidedly “premium” but we would like to promote minimal testing of Samsung.
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Display
HTC and Samsung have left the display size exactly like the previous models. The Galaxy S6 has a diagonal of 5.1 inches Super AMOLED while the M9 a 5-inch LCD. Screen Samsung, however, has a higher resolution S5: 2560 X 1440 pixels. HTC uses for the third consecutive year, the 1920 X 1080 probably increase because the pixels of an LCD panel would have been much more mediocre. Dear HTC, although not enough here comes a battle between purists: AMOLED or LCD? Colors too hot or visibility outdoors? It’s really a matter of taste.
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Autonomy
The battery is 2550 mAh dell’S6 (2600 variant Edge) while that HTC is a powerful 2840 mAh. The LCD also uses less energy and for those who make this autonomy an important feature for the purchase of the phone no longer ignore the M9.
Camera
HTC first introduced the UltraPixel in 2013 One of M7. In 2014 he endowed the next M8 the same technology but adding a depth sensor. In fact, many users have ignored the so-called “Duo Camera” and that’s why with the M9 HTC is back to the classic, with a single camera, but better. There are 20 megapixels on the back and the front sensor has 4 MP UltraPixel: attention to pimples before Selfie. A lack? There is the optical stabilizer .
Samsung has always reigned in the field of mobile photography. The hardware of S6 is more or less the same S5 but what changes is the software that accompanies the release and subsequent image editing. The camera rear is 16 Megapixel , but can take pictures faster. The image stabilizer, good in low light and with the HDR option, allows you to have photos worthy of the name in almost all conditions. This explains the greater thickness of the camera module than the Galaxy S5. For now we feel promote more mature solution Samsung although HTC has flying wing technology possible to recover.
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Hardware
We arrive at a pivotal point of comparison. The Galaxy S6 and HTC M9 mountain processors different but comparable. After the alleged problems of overheating Samsung has abandoned in favor of the solution partner Qualcomm housewife Exynos while HTC has pointed straight choosing just the Snapdragon 810 . The new 7 Exynos Octa 7420 used by Samsung has a chip 64-bit , four-core Cortex-A57 fast and four low-power Cortex-A53, a configuration that ARM Big.little calls.
The Snapdragon on HTC M9 is an Octa-core 64-bit based on a configuration A57 and A53. On the graph Qualcomm Adreno 430 GPU is firm to then you have more or less the same risolutati seen on M8 while the new Exynos showed better results than the rival chosen by HTC. But in the use of concrete differences should not esservene, even during 3D games and applications-sucking energy.
As for RAM we in Either a form to 3 GB . The difference is that the one on the Galaxy S6 uses the technology LPDDR4 while the M9 still has the LPDDR3. It is unclear whether this will lead to a difference in performance in some contexts, but it is a particularly well to keep in mind. One difference is in the choice of Samsung not to include support for microSD memory cards while HTC is possible. A lack that does not feel as the S6 has 129 GB of storage space compared to 32 (expandable) HTC M9.
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Software
Both are equipped with the 5.0 version of Android Lollipop and in both cases has been heavily customized by the manufacturers. The Galaxy S6 is based on the new TouchWiz while the M9 on the renewed HTC Sense 7. For the purists of simplicity there is no choice , both interfaces have their strengths and weaknesses and it’s really complicated to pick one. A point in favor of HTC is the function BlinkFeed that has adapted to Material Design Lollipop and allows you to view in one window updates from social and favorite sites.
Across the TouchWiz has abandoned some fairly useless present on Galaxy Galaxy S4 and S5 making improvements in some areas, such as download booster that lets you use both Wi-Fi and mobile network to download content faster. In general the choice of HTC seems more attractive and less cluttered interface of Samsung that often ends with the make-up too an operating system that owes much of its success to the simplicity of use.
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Conclusion
But in the end what to choose? HTC has decided to extend the winning streak in the series One offering very few aesthetic differences compared to the past. The previous points should have made clear where the new smartphone will be updated and in that specific other hand, remained the same in 2014. Samsung for its part suffers from a TouchWiz too cumbersome while the aesthetic point of view has finally realized that it was time to abandon the plastic to create a better product. For now we would like to promote Samsung but only in small doses because it has made improvements to the hardware that the software but do not worry HTC: your M9 is still the best choice for those who want only so many widget and app stores parallels but also a phone to use 360 degrees and charge only in the evening.
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