As one of the largest and best producers of smart phones, Samsung just launched its wonderful Galaxy series. The series are provided with advanced features and latest technologies. The best two handsets are Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Portal. Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Portal are two amazing handsets and have marvelous yet friendly features to offer the gadget freaks. Both of them come from the same brand, so it must be difficult for you to choose between them. They give tough competition to each other and because those phones have ‘Galaxy’ in their names, their fight is called as the galaxy war.
Both of them can be bought as SIM free phone or bought with Pay As You Go (PAYG) deals provided from network operators. Samsung Galaxy Portal is relatively cheaper, but Samsung Galaxy S might be the one you need. Better to take a look first the comparison that we present to you.
Samsung Galaxy S
This handset becomes popular in a very short time. It has an integrated 5 mega pixel camera with the resolution power of 2592 x 1944 pixels. The camera features touch focus, face and smile detection, auto focus, LED Flash and Geo tagging. The design is sleek and has 4 inch super AMOLED capacitive touch screen with display screen resolution of 480 x 800 pixels with 16 million colors. The display screen comes with several additional features, such as Swype text input, Touch-sensitive controls, TouchWiz 3.0 UI, Multi-touch input method, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off and Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate. It also supports 2G and 3G networks, thus it can be used for video calling, EDGE, GPRS, USB, Bluetooth, and wi-fi for internet connectivity. It runs on Android OS version 2.1.
Samsung Galaxy S comes with two different versions, 8GB and 16 GB internal storage capacity with 512 MB RAM and 2GB ROM. If you think 16 GB is still not enough, you can put micro SD card to the extra card slot and add an external memory up to 32 GB.
Samsung Galaxy S is available in two different colors, Grey and Black. Its weight of 119 grams is slightly lighter than Galaxy Portal’s weight, which is 124 grams. There are also some other latest applications such as, Image/video editor, digital compass, social networking integration, document editor (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, PDF), Organizer, Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Calendar, Picasa integration, Voice memo/dial/commands, Flash Lite v3, and T9.
The battery stamina of Galaxy S provides abundant time to use a lot of loaded applications. You can talk for 393 minutes in 3G network and 803 minutes in 2G networks with a standby time 576 hours for 3G and 750 hours for 2G.
Samsung Galaxy Portal
Its camera is not as sophisticated as Samsung Galaxy S. It has only 3.15 megapixel (and why is the number so odd?) with the resolution power 2048 x 1536 pixels. The camera is able to record video. It also has comparatively smaller, but more stylist, TFT capacitive touch screen. The 3.2 inches display screen has 16 million colors with resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. All connectivity features that Galaxy S has are also owned by Galaxy Portal, such as EDGE, GPRS, 2G and 3G networks, USB and Bluetooth. The operating system of Galaxy Portal is Android OS version 1.5 (Cupcake), which is quite popular nowadays. The OS is powered by 800 MHz processor. With internal storage capacity of 180 MB, you can store unlimited contacts in its phonebook. Of course the capacity can be expanded up to 32 GB with microSD card slot.
Samsung Galaxy Portal’s battery allows the handset to standby for 650 hours in 2G and 580 hours in 3G network with talk time up to 710 minutes in 2G and 410 minutes in 3G network.
Samsung Galaxy Portal is available in two colors, Black and White. You will be spoiled with its latest application such as, voice memo, digital compass, Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Google Talk Integration and Organizer.
Samsung has showed its distinctive class by meeting the latest demands of technology and people’s need. So, which one to buy? Even though more expensive, Samsung Galaxy S gives you all the sophisticated features. But, if you want an astonishing handset with affordable price, then Samsung Galaxy Portal is the best choice.


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