The iPhone 5 is getting yet another big rival from the Android side. The new Nexus 4 from LG is about to hit stores and it will be taking on the new iPhone in many aspects. The LG-built Google Nexus 4 is a brilliant product. It comes with a 4.7-inch display, quad core processor and the new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Here we put the handset in a comparison with iPhone 5. Apple’s 2012 iPhone has been up there for a while and it is slowly accumulating momentum after a row of complaints.
Software: The fourth-gen Nexus handset is to premier Google’s new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Even being an upgrade to the current Jelly Bean, the new Android firmware doesn’t have the rumored Key Lime Pie moniker. Anyway, it is to offer a set of amazing capabilities like Photo Sphere, Daydream, revamped Google Now and multiple user accounts. The new iPhone 5 runs iOS 6, the latest update to the Apple mobile firmware that also has lots of high-tech offerings for you.
Display: The Nexus 4 comes with a 4.7-inch WXGA True HD Plus display that offers a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels at 320-ppi. Well, its screen is laminated for keeping safe from scratches and drops. It uses the new G2 technology that embeds touch sensor into the Gorilla Glass 2 layer. That is, along with better touch capability, you get protection for your device’s screen against scratches.
The new iPhone is up with a bit smaller 4-inch display that. It offers a native resolution of 1136 x 640 pixels at 326-ppi. Compared to Nexus 4, it is not anything amazing, because, the former has a better screen with a large display. Apple also makes use a novel method to for integrating touch sensor and display protection, which called “in-cell touch.”
Processor: The new Nexus handset is quite muscular when it comes to the processing performance. It is equipped with a 1.5GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chip inside a Krait processor. It is supported by Adreno 320 graphical processor and 2GB of RAM. Of course, it is faster than iPhone 5’s A6 dual core CPU clocked at 1.2GHz and backed by 1GB of RAM and PowerVR SGX 543MP triple-core graphics unit.
Storage: It is both frustrating and pleasant that Nexus 4 is to come in just two base memory versions; 8GB and 16GB. It is disappointing as you won’t be able to store much more data in the device, which also lacks a microSD slot. But, it becomes happy news because price of the handset will be on lower side. The new iPhone, at the same time, comes in three higher memory versions; 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. It also doesn’t have a microSD slot for memory expansion.
Camera: Both handsets come with 8MP rear cameras. They offer nice camera features like auto-focus, LED flash, geo tagging, touch focus and more. You can also capture video at 1080p at 30fps. But, iPhone 5 certainly enjoys an advantage here. It features an advanced iSight cam that is specially improved to let you take low-light images and support panoramic pics. The handsets also have nice front cams for video chat.
Connectivity: Quite surprisingly, Nexus 4 misses 4G LTE. It comes with 3G and HSPA+ 42 only. It is when iPhone 5 is the first smartphone from Apple to tout 4G LTE. Both the handsets show off Wi-Fi, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot and Bluetooth 4.0. Nexus 4 has microUSB and NFC, which you can’t see on iPhone 5, however.
Price: Apple has just copied prices of iPhone 4S for the new iPhone 5. It comes for $199, $299 and $399 respectively for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. The Nexus 4 is to start at $299 (8GB), while the 16GB version is to go for $349. T-Mobile will be carrying the device for just $199 on two year contract.
