Samsung Introduces Galaxy SIV

Samsung recently introduced its newest smartphone, the Galaxy SIV in New York. It's in my opinion a revolutionary phone in that you can scroll through the menu icons without actually touching the screen, configure the screen to stop playing when you look away while watching a video and its quite light, only 130 grams considering that it has a five-inch high resolution screen among other features. The phone will heat stores in 155 countries by April 2013.

This is Samsung's counter-attack to nip at Apple's dominance of the U.S. market and who knows, it might as well achieve what it was made for. Personally though, I would still prefer the iPhone in that it is more classy, more user friendly and has more apps available. Of course, one thing I really like about the iPhone is that it can work seamlessly with your iPad through iTunes and iCloud. That is something that Android phones do not, at the moment have. In addition, the iPhone is much comfortable to work with in that it seems to have been designed to make its use as efficient and as trouble-free as possible.

I am actually a new iPhone user, my mother recently gave me an iPhone 3Gs, and although a bit older, is still functional and practical. That is something I don't see happening with Android phones, in fact, other smartphones depreciate much faster and look much "prehistoric" after only a few years, especially when new product releases are eventually launched. Apple products however like the iPhone, iPad, iPod and iTab have a much longer life span and is still perceived as reasonably decent, indeed useful, even if new models are later on released. I would say that Apple products retain their luster even after a few years, and one reason might be that you can actually easily and conveniently upgrade its software over the internet.

So if you ask me, I'd still go for the red fruit rather than the jelly bean, pun intended.