Apple iPhone 6 Plus vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Features, Specs, Display: A Comprehensive Comparison & Review - Which One to Go For?

By Aishwarya Oct 22, 2014 06:37 AM EDT

Apple iPhone 6 Plus vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Features, Specs, Display: A Comprehensive Comparison & Review - Which One to Go For?

The rivalry between two tech leaders Apple and Samsung has been on the news for long and the battlefield has heated up again when the Apple iPhone 6 Plus was released. This big size smartphone will be competing with Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Though iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus broke all the previous sale volume records within three weeks, it will be challenging for Apple to beat Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 phablet.

The larger sibling of iPhone 6 has 5.5-inch display size that offers LED backlit IPS LCD capacitive type touchscreen; the display resolution 1080 x 1920 is impressive along with the knife-edge sharp 401 pixels per inch pixel density. The glass is protected by shatterproof glass and oleophobic coating enhances the durability. For security concern iPhone 6 Plus has Touch ID fingerprint sensor.

Other contestant Samsung is offering one of the best display qualities in the market with the Galaxy Note 4. Note 4 has eye-catching design with 5.7-inch display that offers 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution. The pixel density really is the key difference between iPhone 6 plus and Note 4. Note 4 contain 515 pixels per inch pixel density that is extremely sharp with Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen according to GSMARENA.

iPhone 6 Plus sticks with the same camera as iPhone 6 that offers 8MP primary sensor and 1.2MP secondary camera sensor. Though the camera pixels may not seem higher but comparing to the pixel resolution iPhone 6 Plus camera performs really well. Users will get satisfactory result even with the 8MP camera that performs better than standard 13MP camera. Meanwhile Note 4 has stunning 16MP rear camera sensor and 3.7MP front camera. As indicated by CNET, picture quality brings satisfactory results for both the devices.

The hardware specification of iPhone 6 Plus includes Apple A8 chipset with Dual-Core 1.4GHz Cyclone processor. The GPU is powered by separated Quad-Core graphics name PowerVR GX6450. In terms of hardware configuration, Galaxy Note 4 comes in two variants. SM-N910s offers Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset with Quad-Core 2.7GHz processor with Adreno 420 GPU. Other variant SM-N910C comes with Exynos 5433 chipset that has Quad-Core 1.3GHz and Quad-Core 1.9GHz processor along with Mali T760 GPU As stated in 9to5 Google.

iPhone 6 Plus has provision for 16/64/128 GB internal storage model but lacks the external storage system while Note 4 has 32 GB internal storage that can be expandable with microSD card slot up to 128GB. iPhone 6 Plus runs with 1 GB of RAM while Note 4 is powered by 3GB of RAM.