HTC Holiday vs. Samsung Infuse 4G

Samsung has introduced what seems to be the biggest smartphone till date in the form of Samsung Infuse 4G but that will change as HTC is planning to introduce their biggest smartphone known as HTC Holiday.

There were numerous articles posted on Samsung Infuse 4G comparing it with the biggest smartphones in the market and how it overshadowed most of them. But HTC’s Holiday is the best answer Samsung Infuse 4G will get in days to come. Surprisingly, HTC Holiday will be heading to AT&T where Samsung Infuse has taken its position.

Both the smartphones seem to be in an advantageous position in one or the other aspect. Samsung Infuse has a single core processor whereas HTC Holiday is expected to feature a dual core processor. Since Samsung Infuse already features 4G support, HTC Holiday may not support 4G upon its release.

Here is a look at the comparison of Samsung Infuse 4G and HTC Holiday with its most probable specifications.

Display:
HTC Holiday has 4.5-inch display similar to HTC Infuse 4G but with 540 x 960 pixels capacitive touchscreen compared to Infuse 4G’s 480 x 800 pixels super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen.

Input features:
The input features found in Samsung Infuse 4G are Gorilla Glass display, TouchWhiz 3.0 UI, multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, touch-sensitive controls and proximity sensor for auto turn-off. HTC Holiday also has accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, multi-touch input method, proximity sensor for auto turn-off and HTC Sense UI.

Memory:
HTC’s smartphone is expected to feature 1 GB RAM and there is no word about internal storage details yet. While Samsung Infuse 4G has 1 GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage along with up to 32 GB microSD support, similar to HTC’s smartphone.

3G:
As both these smartphones are expected to be featured in AT&T’s network, they will have HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) 21 Mbps and HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) 3.6 Mbps support.

WLAN/Bluetooth/ USB:
HTC Holiday has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot support along with advanced Bluetooth version 4.0 with A2DP and EDR. Samsung’s phone has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA support along with Bluetooth version 3.0 with A2DP and also has microUSB version 2.0, similar to HTC Holiday.

Camera:
Samsung Infuse 4G has 8-megapixel 3264x2448 pixels camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection whereas HTC’s smartphone has a similar megapixel camera along with autofocus and geo-tagging. Moreover Samsung’s phone can capture videos at 720p and has a 1.3-megapixel camera, similar to HTC Holiday but other features of HTC’s smartphone are yet to be revealed.

Operating system:
The Infuse 4G has an Android OS version 2.2 (Froyo) compared to HTC Holiday's Andriod OS version 2.3 (Gingerbread).

Processor:
HTC Holiday will have a 1.2 GHz dual-core Broadcom BCM4330 chipset processor compared to Infuse 4G's ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz processor.

Battery:
The battery details of HTC Holiday is yet to be revealed but one can expect a huge battery for the huge smartphone. Samsung’s smartphone has standard Li-Ion 1750 mAh battery which gives up to 400 h of standby time and up to 8 h of talk time.

Other features:
HTC Holiday’s other known preliminary specifications include SMS thread view, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, HTML browser, A-GPS support, Java MIDP emulator, MP4/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player, organizer, document viewer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, voice memo-dial-commands and predictive Swype text input.

Other features found in Infuse 4G are SMS thread view, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS, HTML browser, A-GPS support, Java MIDP emulator, social networking integration, digital compass, MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, organizer, image and video editor, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration, flash support, voice memo-dial-commands and predictive Swype text input.