Galaxy S i9000 vs. HTC Desire vs. XPeria X10

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waaaaaa! i just bought X10 last week! and now i see Galaxy S is GOOD!!! anybody can tell me if X10 is good also? did i make a wrong choice or just ok? hohohohoho!

I personally own an HTC Desire, my brother has a Samsung Galaxy S and my cousin has a SE Xperia 10.

The SE Xperia 10 is in no way in the same class as the HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S.

Samsung Galaxy S only trumps HTC Desire with regards to screen quality with its S-AMOLED 4″ display. The UI is usable but not great.

HTC Desire has superior build quality and design. It is also very similar to the Nexus One, which results to easier customizations for Sense by HTC on updates from Google. It’s getting Froyo by August. It has a 3.7″ AMOLED screen, same 1Ghz CPU and superior RAM. It has a LED flash and can do 720p video recording with Froyo. HTC widgets for tethering, sync all, hotspot, Car UI, etc. for Froyo are top notch.

It’s fairly a subjective choice between Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire. Whether you want a better, larger display or a premium build quality and design.

All other software features are negligible as you can root, cook and port any ROM you want to anyway.

Battery life on ALL android phones suck out of the box but there are a lot of tweaks that can address this. I, myself, am running Android 2.2 Froyo Desire ROM with Sense, I use WiFi, APN’s, auto-sync, mail, browsing, etc. and my battery lasts for more than a day on a single charge.

EXPERIA 10 versus GALAXY S

Want an Android phone with a whacking great big screen for watching video or surfing the web on? The Samsung Galaxy S and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 are two phones you seriously need to consider. Which is better? Read on to find out…

OS and Interface – Timescape vs TouchWiz
These two Androids have significant differences in the software department. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 features Android 1.6 and the Timescape/Mediascape UI, while the Samsung Galaxy S uses the newer Android 2.1 OS and the TouchWiz 3.0 UI. The Sony Ericsson ’scapes are less intrusive than TouchWiz as they leave the basic vanilla Android look ticking on underneath custom widgets and apps.

The Samsung Galaxy S’s TouchWiz interface isn’t so easy-going. It sticks a static dock at the bottom of your phone’s screen, which you can’t remove, and arranges your apps menu into pages – like the iPhone interface – although you can revert to the standard scrolling stream if you want. Neither the Samsung Galaxy S’s or the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10’s widgets are quite as good as those of HTC Sense, but you’re supplied with the usual smattering of social networking, calendar and memo functions in both cases.

Which is better? For day-to-day simplicity, we prefer the Samsung Galaxy S’s widgets, but Mediascape and Timescape are harder to replace wholesale with Android Market equivalents, so it’s a close-run battle.
Winner – Samsung Galaxy S. Only just

Screens and video
These two are the real big boys of Android, with four inches of screen on show a piece. The tech they use is different though. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 uses a standard TFT LCD screen while the Samsung Galaxy S features a Super AMOLED screen. The Samsung Galaxy S has much better contrast – blacks are incredibly deep – but the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is no slouch either. The more vivid image produced by the Galaxy S means its our mobile cinema pick though.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 starts well on the video front with Mediascape, a very pretty media player app, but it doesn’t have the file type support to back it up. No Divx/Xvid support means many of the videos you’ve downloaded of the net won’t play. The Samsung Galaxy S’s media player is less swish than the Xperia X10’s, but with fab media support that includes Xvid, Divx and MKV – and even Wi-Fi streaming – there’s no contest here. If you want the ultimate mobile video player, you have to go for the Samsung Galaxy S. It’s as simple as that.
Winner – Samsung Galaxy S

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Looks and build
The Samsung Galaxy S, at 118g, is significantly lighter than the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. It’s also thinner too, but we can’t get over the sense that Samsung might have gone a bit too far with the Galaxy S. It’s a classy phone, but without a rock-solid body to lend it some weight – in the literal sense too – the Samsung Galaxy S ends up feeling a little flimsy.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10’s look might be a bit conservative for some, but we dig its more generous curves, and that its battery cover doesn’t feel like it’s on the verge of snapping in half when you try and take it off. We also find the real buttons of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 more satisfying than the touch-sensitive softkeys of the Samsung Galaxy S.
Winner – Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

Camera
At first glance, it seems like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 flattens the Samsung Galaxy S, with its 8-megapixel sensor and LED flash against the Galaxy S’s 5-megapixel camera and lack of flash. The Samsung Galaxy S does have one thing over its rival though – 720p video recording.

We have a feeling the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 may gain HD video recording with a firmware update, but for now you’re stuck with just 800×480 WVGA recording. The lack of a flash on the Samsung Galaxy S isn’t that easy to forgive though – especially when it’s holding back an otherwise decent mobile snapper.
Winner – Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

@ Lexty: mga ilang units ng samsung galaxy s ang nakita mo dun? gusto ko ring bumili nun e, kaso wala na sa globe gb4.

I just saw Samsung Galaxy S in Greenhills-TheaterMall selling it at just 28k they also have the Samsung Beam (which has a projector) forgot the price though.

here in the US coming soon palang ang Samsung Galaxy S (maybe thru T-mobile daw and was renamed as Samsung Vibrant)..so I prefer for this one. Buti pa nga sa Pinas mas updated ang mga phone dito sa US medio behind sila. Wala pa dito yang SE Xperia X10 pero alot have been waiting for it too. Also, more Americans prefer Android OS than Apple OS I guess. yung lang..

HTC DESIRE.

if you can root the Samsung Galaxy S, can you port the HTC Sense UI intot he device?

i have used almost all phone OSes, the latest and current one is the iPhone 3GS. now, it am on a saturation point that i have to give up my iPhone in favor of a yet another OS flavor.

i am thinking of getting Android v2.1.

for those Android users here, can you please recommend what Android phone is good? i am thinking of HTC Desire, HTC Legend, Nexus One, Motorola Milestone, or perhaps Samsung Galaxy S.

and here are what i have found out in each of them, correct me if my modest research is wrong or insufficient.

HTC Desire has a cool display reso and topnotch processor, however i don’t like the hardware buttons beside the optical senseware. also i have found out that the battery drains quickly.

HTC Legend has an aliminum unibody, similar to that of a MacBookPro unibody. but being small, the keyboard is a bit cramped. the processor is 400Mhz short of the HTC Desire. and similar with the Desire, battery life is tad too short as well.

Nexus One has a resolution which is not so stellar as compared to desire. But it is on the first queue for upgrade having an unlayered OS. i don’t like the old Blackberry type senseware at the bottom.

Milestone is fairly a good Droid phone, however the screen brightness might come into question and may not be as bright to that of HTC Desire. also, i have read reports of it having a Gorilla Glass which brandished high degree of strength and scratch resistance, yet there are also reports of it having cracks while aggregeting space with coins and car keys spaces inside a purse.

Samsung Galaxy S has a superAMOLED display but its camera has no flash.

one thing that is keeping my sight into HTC is because of its HTC Sense.

what do you think is better, form and function-wise. for those HTC Desire/Legend, Milestone, NexusOne, and Galaxy S users, how many hours does you battery last.

there’s a site out there that has the X10 priced at 25,400… hmmm. Anyway, Galaxy S has divx support out of the box tama ba? And all three are about the same size kahit na mas maliit ang screen size ng htc. I think Samsung wins this one for me. I think it’s more future proof than the X10 with bigger ram, multi-touch, wifi n, and bt 3 and in my opinion a more standard screen ratio compared to the x10. As for the HTC, the lack of internal storage and lower physical screen size (at this size) makes it lose points. But performance-wise I dunno.

HTC Desire for me. the other two’s manufacturer’s would take years for them to get an update compared to HTC. and HTC Sense is just better than Samsung’s iphone ripoff UI Touchwiz. SE’s phone doesnt even have multitouch and most probably wont get froyo.

definitely the galaxy s. i wish it would come with froyo out of the box though.

x1 is better…

does android 2.0 also support multitouch? same as android 2.1?

how does samsung galaxy s compare with motorola droid/milestone.

the thing with galaxy s is that the camera doens’t come with a flash. the thing with moto droid/milestone is that although it has a flash, picture tends to become too grainy.

htc has cool product line up too, only that miost of them are cdma phones. i couldn’t see htc evo 4g or htc droid incredible equivalent in the gsm fold.

had the htc been slapped with gorilla screen, i’d probably get myself one. i so much like the htc sense shell UI.

i’ve tried the Galaxy S in a Globe store. it has a certain lag to it.

compare to the Sense UI, the vanilla Android UI (of the Nexus One), or even the iPhone. they are very responsive and snappy.

i don’t think its the hardware, as it has the most impressive specs of the three.

back to the drawing board, Samsung. oh, and hire more programmers.

Galaxy ang pipiliin ko.

Looks like Samsung is the clear winner here. The question now is the after market value, how long does each company offer support like firmware updates.

also samsung has a reputation for not upgrading or giving support to old phones unlike other co.

It’s a toss up between X10 and Galaxy i9000.

Basing on the looks, X10 wins for me, but for specs, Samsung edged a bit with its super AMOLED+ HD video.

But according to engadget commenters, Samsung sucks daw when it comes to customer support – so they say.

Samsung Galaxy S is the best!

@marcus

yes rachel is the code name of x10 before launching. according to se blog, the ui is called UX. the media/timescape are just features of the UI. The UI of x10 mini (with 4 hotspot corners) is also a miniature version of UX UI. But I’ve seen some blogger refering the UI as rachel as well, dunno why :)

sir abe, sorry for asking this again… you said 32K for the Samsung Galaxy S, but is that Globe telecom’s price?

I’m really dying here… I want the phone really really bad, but I am wishing I could get an unlocked version of the phone..

Would you know if this is available anywhere else?

Thanks!

I’ll go with Samsung Galaxy S.. been eyeing on it ever since… of course for the same price level, iPhone 3Gs and 4G will be a better choice. if the price lower down then this will be a good..

smartphones are dumb once they run out of battery in the wild.

samsung galaxy s do not have a camera flash though.

@abeolandres linux wins! :)

@abeolandres youre welcome