Find The Best Smartphone: bias or without?

How to choose the best smartphone? By instinct? By talking to friends and family? By asking the salesman? By reading reviews on the internet? Yes, I did all that, but I still haven't made the decision yet. Until few days ago I stumble (is this an outdated term? :P ), I saw this website that do all the comparisons for us.

FindTheBest.com will do the data-driven comparisons for business and finance services, child care to adoption agencies, bicycles to guns, air tickets to hostels, and various consumers electronics including smartphones. So I give a try on the smartphone department.

I am looking for a mid-range smartphone. Probably around RM 1000 to RM 1500 (~US$313 to US$469). Has to be an Android (iPhone is out the range because the pricing). And ICS upgradable, the best is ICS out of the box. So I nailed down to a few, too bad the website don't have Samsung Galaxy S Advance, could because it is not sold at US. Anyway, Samsung Galaxy S 2 vs a few within the price range that I mentioned just now. And I get this:

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Looks like Samsung Galaxy S 2 has the highest score even though HTC One V and all 3 Sony Xperia are one year newer than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

One thing I noticed while using FindTheBest.com is it said that they are unbiased, data-driven comparisons, however the data are based on reviews from the internet, so it might not always as reliable as we thought. A lot of websites nowadays are being paid by the manufacturers to promote their products. Example iPhone 4 S is 1 point better than Samsung Galaxy S 2 even though so many aspect are worse than Samsung Galaxy S 2.

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HTC One series are in bad score. I wonder why Samsung Galaxy S 3 ended up at lower score.

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At the end of the day, it is still back to us to make up own decisions. Reviews and advices are still for reference only. Good luck to me for finding my next smartphone. :)

Here is the Find The Best smartphone department:
http://smartphones.findthebest.com

And this is the Find The Best main page:
http://www.findthebest.com

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Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S

Mr Miniman from pocketnow.com is finally come out and do a comparison video. This time is Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S. At last, I can relax, sit back and enjoy the comparison video without need to worry about accent. :P
Don't believe me, watch this video:http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/06/samsung-galaxy-s-3-vs-htc-one-x.html

Anyway, let watch video made by Mr Miniman. Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S

Once again, there is a jump list if you don't want to watch the whole video. [My comment in square bracket]
0:25 - boot up comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [Samsung Galaxy S 3 is the winner here, duh!]
1:10 - hardware comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [just check at gsmarena for better and side-by-side comparison]
3:40 - day-to-day apps comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [different OS with slightly different apps (the code of the apps definitely different)]
5:45 - browser comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [no advantage of quad core on Samsung Galaxy S 3]
8:40 - dictation comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 (S Voice) vs iPhone 4S (Siri)
10:00 - screen comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [I like the colors on Samsung Galaxy S 3]
13:13 - youtube comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [iPhone 4S looks like a cheap tiny video player from ShenZhen beside Samsung Galaxy S 3, wait a minute, iPhone 4S is assembled at ShenZhen, whatever :P]
14:00 - grand theft auto comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S [yawn]
19:04 - 1080p video comparison of Samsung Galaxy S 3 vs iPhone 4S

Again, this is no apple-to-apple comparison. Apple fan boys, iPhone 5 is coming soon! I will continue waiting for my mid-range smartphone with ICS to come out. :)


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iPhone 4S vs Nokia Lumia 800

Someone (yes, someone) has posted side-by-side comparison of iPhone4, Nokia Lumia 800 and iPhone 4S. I don't want to look at iPhone4 because it is on iOS4, make no-sense whatsoever to compare iOS4.



Looks like Nokia Lumia 800 WP7.5 is slower then iPhone4S, in most of the tests, but bear in mind that iPhone 4S is on dual-core processors, while Nokia Lumia is on single core processors.

Comparison on GSMArena:
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4240&idPhone2=4212

Don't think this is useful when someone is considering to buy iPhone or WP7, unless he/she is very geeky. :D Therefore I categorized this post as waste time posts.

btw, I don't know why on the earth they put the music on this video, the finger gesture apparently showed that the person who did this video is talking about the comparison/result.


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Duet with SIRI

SIRI is the apps that allow iPhone 4S to take voice command. Wait a minute, why only now? This kind of apps already exist on Windows Mobile (the ancestor of Windows Phone 7, recall?), and similar apps is being use widely on Androids (called Voice Actions). But some how Apple always make people think whatever they did is the first of this world, grow up AFB (Apple Fan Boys)!

Anyway, Mr Mann is a famous web owner that produces one youtube video per day. Recently he produced a duet with Siri. I know you already see a lot of blog posts and website that feature the joke with Siri, but have you see Siri in a song? Here you go:


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iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S 2

You have seen the unboxing of iPhone 4S and teardown of iPhone 4S, so how does it compare to the best non-apple/iphone smartphone out there? To do the comparison, pocketnow.com put out a side-by-side comparison video between iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S 2.

Because this video is not made by Mr Miniman, so just cut the crap and jump to 3.52 time (don't waste your time if you already know what are the Samsung Galaxy S 2 and iPhone 4S).
If you just to know the browser speed, just jump to 10:00 time.


If you like more of the technical stuffs of these 2 smartphone that have dual core processor, head to this link below for the hardware comparison at gsmarena:
Samsung Galaxy S 2 vs iPhone 4S

So have you made up your mind? Samsung Galaxy S 2 or iPhone 4S? Or just pick up a dump phone from Nokia if you just making phone calls and sms. :P


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iPhone 4S teardown

Forget about what is in the OS in iPhone 4S, lets go see what is really inside an iPhone 4S, the hardware.
This is the first phone that has dual core processor from Apple. 8MP rear-facing camera (made by Sony!), and VGA front-facing camera, wifi b/g/n (standard la), Bluetooth 4.0 (wow), Retina Display (this one same like iPhone4?), and Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Dual-band CMDA/EV-DO (supposedly a world phone?).

Ready? Lets go find what is inside to make it great phone (or sucky phone if you ask Android/BB/WP users :P)


iPhone 4S Teardown at iFixIt




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iPhone 4S unboxing video

For those still waiting for iPhone4S to come to your country or still waiting for the iPhone4S parcel to reach your house, there is a iPhone 4S unboxing video to cure your crave for iPhone 4S.



Should I wait for iPhone4S or just buy the cheaper iPhone 4?

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