HTC Rezound: Is It The most powerful smartphone?

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released late last year and hit the shelves of Verizon, it immediately shot up to the top spot in the smartphone spectrum of the wireless provider, and for a good reason. Not only does it come with fire-breathing components under the hood, it also packs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its operating system, the latest version of the Google mobile operating system. Be that as it may, some people passionately claim that the HTC Rezound is easily just as good as the Google flagship handset and have argued vehemently to this effect.

The question now is if the HTC Rezound has what it takes to take the best Android phone title for Verizon from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The two superphones was put side by side and did a little comparison between the two to give you an idea which really is more worthy of the title.

Both the HTC Rezound and Samsung Galaxy Nexus were released back in November but in terms of design and construction, the Google flagship edges out the HTC superphone being the sexier of the two with its dimensions of 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9 mm compared to the bulky Rezound’s 129 x 67.9 x 13.7 mm. The Galaxy Nexus is whole lot lighter too at just 135 grams compared to the Rezound’s 170.1 grams.

Internally, the two devices use different chipsets in their respective innards with the Rezound favoring the SmapDragon platform while the Galaxy Nexus goes for the OMAP platform. Both chipsets bring dual-core capabilities to the superphones but the 1.5 GHz Scorpion processor of the HC handset has a slight edge over the Galaxy Nexus which only has a 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Both devices have dedicated GPUs handling graphical concerns. In terms of storage capacity, both the Rezound and Galaxy Nexus pack 16 GB of internal memory but the HTC device comes with a dedicated microSd card slot for memory expansion so we’d have to give this round to the Rezound. The Galaxy Nexus on the other hand evens out the playing field by running the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system compared to the Rezound’s Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.

In terms of display, the Galaxy Nexus has the slight edge here given its massive 4.65-inch SuperAMOLED display having the edge over the Rezound’s 4.3-inch SuperLCD panel although both of the displays come with a 1280 x 720 resolution. The camera department of the Rezound certainly gets the better of the Galaxy Nexus with its 8MP rear shooter and 2MP front snapper compared to the Google handset having a 5MP camera at its back panel and 1.3MP webcam out front.

At this point in time, it is very clear that despite the flagship status of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the HTC Rezound has the slight edge between the two superphones in terms of their specs sheets. However, the best Android phone for you is really relative and all boils down to preference. Would you like to play with the latest version of Android? Then you definitely want the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But if you go for sheer power, then the HTC Rezound is your best bet.