Two of the giants of the present Android smartphone world could be put together in a ring and prepared for an imaginary battle of features.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Sony Xperia Z2 can measure their strength in their screens and their cameras mainly, but in all their other features also.

Here is a detailed comparison of the two opponents showing in which characteristics one is better than the other.

The advantages of the Galaxy S5

-    A better screen, with better visibility in the sunlight and more accurate colors
-    More compact
-    Fingerprint scanner
-    More powerful CPU – 2.5GHz
-    The possibility of having 32GB of built-in storage
-    Faster USB, v3.0
-    Heart rate sensor included

The advantages of the Xperia Z2

-    More Ram memory – 3GB
-    Water resistance, immersion beyond 1m
-    Higher resolution camera – 20.7MP
-    Bigger screen – 5.2”
-    Bigger battery – 3200mAh

Design

The Sony Xperia has a beautiful aluminum design with exposed sides and scratch-resistant glass for the front and back, while the Galaxy S5 has Gorilla Glass on the front, fake perforated leather on the back and a plastic frame on the sides. You can now Unlock The Sony Xperia Z2 here.

The latter is more practical in what concerns fingerprints and scratches, although it doesn’t look as good as the Sony.

Talking about size, the Galaxy S5 is a bit lighter and smaller, with 42 x 72.5 x 8.1mm and 145g, compared to the 146.8 x 73.3 x 8.2mm and 163g of the Z2. The screen of the Z2 is only 0.1” larger than the S5’s 5.1”. To get unlocked your Samsung Galxy S5 please click here.

Water and dust resistance is different at the two gadgets, the Sony having an IP67 rating, which means that no dust goes inside the phone and that it can be kept under water less than 1 meter deep for half an hour.

The Samsung has an IP58 rating, which means that it is worse at dust proofing but better at water proofing.

Display

Both smartphone have trademark displays on show from their manufacturer: the Super AMOLED from Samsung and the Triluminos and X-Reality features on the Sony.

After analyzing the two displays, it seems that the S5’s 5.1” screen with 1080p and 432ppi has a lower sharpness, contrast and viewing angles than the Z2, but performs better in the sunlight. However, these differences are very slight and hard to notice until placing the two gadgets side by side.

Battery life

When talking about battery life, it seems that the Z2 has a larger 3200mAh battery as opposed to the 2800mAh one of the S5, summing up 14% more battery life and a total of 89 hours of speaking for the Sony.

Interface

Both smartphone have the same Android 4.4.2 KitKat adapted to the characteristics of each company. The most attractive feature of the Samsung UI is the fingerprint sensor located in the home key, sensor which keeps your phone locked and your media under private mode, while Sony has a lockscreen very close to the vanilla screen of Android that also features widgets.

Regarding default apps, Sony has a news reader called “My Magazine” on the home pane, while the Samsung has “Socialife”, an app that merges Twitter, Facebook and other news sources.

One very cool feature of the Samsung UI is Multi Window, which allows you to use two apps at the same time in split screen, being able to copy-paste from one to the other or use a screenshot from one of them into the other.

The equivalent of this feature for Sony is called “Small Apps” and consists in having multiple small windows open on the screen, not only two.

Performance

Although both gadgets have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and are using 1080p screens, there are differences between their performance rates and that is because the processor of the S5 is clocked at 2.5GHz, while the Z2 processor is at 2.3GHz.

The differences between the two clockspeeds are unnoticeable, but the 3GB of RAM offered by the Sony clearly offers it an advantage, despite the lower processing speed.

Camera

When comparing the two cameras it seems that the Samsung is the winner, due to its clear shots and good behavior in the darkness, with the flash on. Despite its 20MP sensor, the Sony takes lower quality shots in normal mode but performs better with the 8MP Superior Auto function.

In conclusion, both the Sony Zperia Z2 and the Samsung Galaxy S5 are the best gadgets that have been produced by their manufacturers and it is clear that improvements in technology are coming faster and faster from year to year.

Both in hardware and software, these two smartphones demonstrate the immense capabilities of such small gadgets and raise our expectations for the future. You can unlock your smartphone here!

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