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Apple iPhone 5
LTE and GSM A1428A1428
| Global Score | |
| 71.7 | 84.2 |
| Basic Information | |
| Apple | Samsung |
| iOS 7.x, 6.1, 6 | -- |
| 2012-09-12 | 2018-10-20 |
| 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 inches | 6.29 x 3.02 x 0.30 inches |
| 3.95 ounces | 5.93 ounces |
| Black and White | 16 777 216 |
| Aluminium | Glass (Corning Gorilla Glass 3) and Plastic |
| -- | Scratch-Resistant Glass |
| $ 195.00 | -- |
| Display / Screen | |
| 4 inches | 6 inches |
| 640 x 1136 pixels | 2220 x 1080 pixels |
| IPS LCD | Super AMOLED |
| 326 pixels per inch | 411 pixels per inch |
| 500 cd/m2 brightness | -- |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | No touch screen |
| 8.9 | 8.1 |
| Performance | |
| Apple A6 chipset | Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7885 chipset |
| Apple Swift (Dual-Core 1300 MHz) processor | ARM Cortex-A73 and ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit, 14 nm (Octa-Core 2200 MHz) processor |
| 1016 MB (1066 MHz) RAM | 6 GB RAM |
| PowerVR SGX543MP3 GPU | Mali-G71 MP2 GPU |
| 8.19 | 9.27 |
| Storage | |
| 64 GB internal memory | 128 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | microSDXC (up to 512 GB) external memory slot |
| 7.7 | 14.14 |
| Camera | |
| 8.00 MP + 1.20 MP | 24.00 MP + 24.00 MP |
| f/2.40 aperture | f/1.70 aperture |
| 33.00mm focal length | 26.00mm focal length |
| 0.31 inches (1/3.2") sensor | 0.36 inches (1/2.8") sensor |
| 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution | 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution |
| 8.47 | 9.9 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Mobile Hotspot | Mobile Hotspot |
| LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, UMTS, EV-DO A, EV-DO B, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA | LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA and HSUPA |
| Nano SIM | Nano SIM, Dual SIM |
| 7.2 | 6.7 |
| Battery Life | |
| 1440mAh Li-Polymer Battery | 3300mAh Battery |
| Non-Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 225 hours standby time 8 hours talk time | -- |
| 3.2 | 5.28 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 4.0 | Bluetooth 5.0 |
| GPS | GPS |
| -- | NFC |
| -- | Fingerprint ID Scanner |
| Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor | Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor |
| -- | FM Radio |
Comparison review
The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) is better than Apple iPhone 5, with an 84.2 score against 71.7. The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) construction has the same thickness than the Apple iPhone 5, but it's noticeably heavier. Galaxy A7 (2018) counts with a quite better performance than iPhone 5, because it has 5,01 GB more RAM memory and more CPU cores.
IPhone 5 has a little bit better display than Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018), although it has a lot worse resolution of 1136 x 640px, a really smaller screen and a just a little lower pixels density. Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) has much more memory capacity to install applications and games or saving photos and videos than iPhone 5, because it has an external memory slot that allows up to 512 GB and 128 GB internal storage capacity.
The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) takes much better photographs and videos than iPhone 5, and although they both have the same video resolution and the same video frame rate, the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) also has a camera in the back with much more MP, a much bigger diafragm aperture to take better photography and videos in low-light situations and a larger back camera sensor.
The Galaxy A7 (2018) features a way better battery lifetime than iPhone 5, because it has 3300mAh of battery capacity.
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