14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has just announced the upcoming availability of the new iPhone 4S model, and rivals have already started to show the weak points it arrives on shelves with.
Among them, we can count Samsung, who has just unveiled a comparison chart between its already available Galaxy S II model and the new Apple device.
As one might have expected, Samsung was set to prove that the new iPhone model is not better than its handset, which is now half a year old, and it seems that they actually managed to do so.
According to the South Korean mobile phone maker, which is in a continuous legal battle with Apple, its smartphone can easily prove both faster and capable of a better experience.
The Galaxy S II packs a dual-core application processor that has been clocked in at either 1.2Ghz or at 1.5Ghz, depending on the actual flavor of Galaxy S II one refers to. The new iPhone 4S comes with a dual-core processor of unknown clock speed.
Samsung also underlines the fact that its Android handset features a 4.3-inch or 4.5-inch screen, while the new iPhone model sports only a 3.5-inch panel.
Basically, there is 42 percent more screen area in the original Galaxy S II when compared to the new iPhone 4S, or 58 percent more screen area in the models that arrived on shelves at Sprint and T-Mobile.
Some of the other strong points that Samsung underlines in favor of its smartphone would include the fact that it comes with HSPA+ connectivity, which means up to 21Mbps at AT&T and up to 42Mbps at T-Mobile. The new iPhone 4S sports HSPA 14.4Mbps connectivity.
At the same time, the handset vendor notes that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform that runs on its device, and which benefits from an open ecosystem, is a great advantage over Apple's iphone 4S, which is based on the closed iOS ecosystem.
