A comparison between Apple's iPhone 6 and Samsung's Galaxy Note 4

No sooner than Samsung unveiled its swan song ‘Galaxy Note 4, Apple introduced its first device in the phablet category - iPhone 6 Plus.

September 19, 2014 05:42 pm | Updated September 20, 2014 02:45 pm IST - Chennai

A customer shows off the new Apple iPhone 6 at a store.

A customer shows off the new Apple iPhone 6 at a store.

Apple and Samsung are the Athens and Sparta of the technology world. Which is which and who is who is subject to interpretation. Nevertheless, the rivalry is assuming legendary proportions as both companies are adding more products to their line up.

This time, the battle lines are drawn in the Phablet territory. No sooner than the South Korean company unveiled its swan song ‘Galaxy Note 4, Apple introduced its first device in the phablet category - iPhone 6 Plus.

Samsung and Apple do make a strong case and taking sides is not easy, as it seems. We bring you a feature-wise comparison of the Phablets. The choice is yours.

The price of the devices is believed to be around Rs. 50,000.

 iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5 inch wide IPS display with 1920x1080 pixels resolution and a shatter-proof screen.  Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a slightly bigger display (5.7 inch) and an AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2560X144 pixels. Gorilla Glass is used for the screen.  

Samsung Note 4 weighs around 176 grams while iPhone 6 Plus is lighter with a weight of 172 grams.  

The iPhone 6 is 77.8 wide and 7.1 mm slim, whereas Note 4 is 78.8 mm wide and 8.5 mm slim. But length-wise, the iPhone 6 is bigger than Note 4.

The metal unibody design of iPhone 6 Plus makes it look more stylish than Samsung's Galaxy Note 4. 

So far, so good, for Apple. But there is more in store in the hardware department where Samsung enjoys a definite edge.

Samsung Note 4 uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 805/Exynos Octa core with 3 GB RAM whereas iPhone 6 runs on a dual core Apple A8 processor with 2GB RAM.

Apple has always been appreciated for its camera quality and this time iPhone 6 is carrying a 8 megapixels primary camera with a dual LED flash. Apple's front camera is 1.2 megapixels. Whereas Samsung's Note 4 has a camera of 16 megapixels along with a 3.7 megapixel front snapper.

Both the devices have the revolutionary optical image stabilization technology.

Apple's iPhone 6 will roll out 3 variants with 16 GB,64 GB and 128 GB storage space whereas Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 will come with internal storage capacity of 32GB, which is further expandable up to 128 GB. 

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