Samsung Gaxlaxy S4 VS Sony Xperia Z- Which Do You Prefer?

Competition Between King And King

Among the next-generation flagship phone released by the brand of smartphones in 2013 , the Sony Xperia Z L36h and the Samsung Galaxy S4 become the focus of global mobile phone enthusiasts friend, the Sony Xperia Z L36h was global listing first , due to the virtue of the exquisite designs , top hardware configuration as well as the excellent configuration of three anti- it was voted as world's best Android smartphone in early 2013.

However, another king of android phone -the latest Samsung Galaxy S4 officially released, also give the left a very deep impression to the public , this Samsung Galaxy S4 will be listed in April , by virtue of the excellent human-computer interaction , the strongest performance in the test app, which impress the fans deeply.And then, the interesting questions arised: Sony Xperia Z L36h and Samsung S4 and Sony L36h, which is better ? OK! we will compare them by displaying their configuration of hard ware and software.

Round 1: Appearance, Design Style

AS you can see from the pictures posted on the Internet, Samsung Galaxy S4 looks like Galaxy S3 in design-Case still is rounded pebble-like, simple and business style, give the users a feeling of high-tech and mature. While Xperia Z is quite different, this appearance style of the phone is typical Japanese devices' design, show up the fashion, young and active image of Sony. The sharp case and big grass of Xepria Z may attract the youth more.

Round 2: Hardware

Here is the hardware compare between the two phone:

                                       Samsung Galaxy S4                      Sony Xperia Z


Screen Size                     4.99in 1920*1080                            5in 1920*1080

Phone Size                     69.8 x 136.6mm, 7.9mm               71 x 139mm,7.9mm

CPU                           Samsung Exynos 5410 8cores          Qualcomm APQ8064 4cores

Memory                    16G/32G/64G Rom+2G Ram           16G Rom+2G Ram

Camera                     Rear:1300pix+Front:200pix              Rear:1300pix+Front:200pix

Battery                        2600mAh                                       2330mAh

Other features             eye- touch                                        3-anti: water, ash, break
                            Hunman-device experience


We can learn from the compare that: the two phones both have a powerful hardware configuration, and in some ways Galaxy S4 is better than Xperia Z. The Xperia Z has the impressive 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor which is the top configuration in the flag-ship level smart phone. However, Samsung has reach the height that 8-core processor with its Exynos 5 Octa 8-core chip. It has four Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.6GHz for performance and four are Cortex-A7s clocked at 1.2GHz for less demanding tasks and power saving. Both have 2GB of RAM. Besides, S4 has various version in memory which provide different choice for consumers.

In term of camera, the differences are not obvious. Both of them has a excellent 13Mp rear facing camera which can shoot video in Full HD 1080p quality. and the front cameras both are 2.2Mp which can record 1080p video. I think the differences of shooting effective just can be distinguished by their software support.

Besides, Xperia Z has a 3-anti feature,thus it is little heavier than Galaxy S4,but it may be more solid.

Round 3: Software

AS is known to all, Both of these smartphones run Google's Android Jelly Bean but different versions. The Xperia Z is on 4.1.2 while the Galaxy S4 will shop with version 4.2.2. It's a minor difference and it is predicted that the Sony will be updated soon. The big difference in software is their UI, you know, Sony' smart phone(including the old Sony Ericsson's Xperia series) have a unique UI named Timescape which is deeply customized based on Android, and when Android has been upgrade to 4.2 version, Sony redesign the UI as well, more fashion, more simple but useful. On the other hand, Xperia Z still equiped the excellent softwares in former Xperia Phone, such as Walkman Music player, 2nd version Bravia engines, etc which make Xperia Z has a powerful entertainment function.

Samsung, although there is no obvious change in its UI, but due to the powerful developing ability and creation, Samsung add more revolutionary techs into Galaxy S4, such as eye-touch, human-device exchange, wireless charging, etc, which set a higher barrier for the marketing competitors.

Xperia Z UI

Samsung Galaxy S4 UI

What Happen Latter

Which one is better? Maybe different users have different choice. What;s your choice? Besides, I wonder that do you have some problems in usage of Android phone, such as data loss. Thanks to the powerful function of Android smart phone, we can do a lot of things by cellphone, such as taking picture, enjoy music, playing games etc, but I think the operation of Android phone become more and more, so data loss from Android will become more and more common as well. However, if you get into the hot water of data loss, you can get the tips from my blogs and try to use Card Data Recovery.