Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Apple iPhone 6 Plus Features, Specs, Price: A Comprehensive Comparison

By Aishwarya Oct 03, 2014 09:36 AM EDT

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 vs Apple iPhone 6 Plus Features, Specs, Price: A Comprehensive Comparison

iPhone 6 plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 both are high ranged devices that come with very strong hardware configuration coupled with a dashing look. Though Galaxy Note 3 is a bit backdated as Galaxy Note 4 is available on market now but it is well comparable to the latest iPhone 6 plus. Let's take a quick review of the devices.

iPhone 6 plus brings giant screen in the iPhone family with 5.5-inches display size. The resolution of the display is 1080 x 1920 pixels with 401ppi pixel density. The display type is LED backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. The display is well protected with the shutter proof glass and the body is coated with oleophobic layer. On the other hand Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has 5.7-inches display size with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The pixel density beats of iPhone 6 plus beats Samsung Galaxy Note 3 by a small margin. Galaxy Note 3 offers 386-ppi pixel density, where the display type is Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16M color. The Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protects the display glass.

The Galaxy Note 3 rules the camera department. It beats iPhone 6 plus camera sensor with ravishing 13MP rear facing camera with 4128 x 3096-pixel resolution. It has features like autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, HDR, panorama. The camera is capable of recording 2160p video at 30fps and 1080p video at 60fps. The other camera is 2MP, which can record 1080 video at 30 fps. The recently launched Apple iPhone 6 plus lags the camera sensor pixels with 8MP rear facing camera with 3264 x 2448pixels resolution. The camera can record videos of 1080p and 720p with frame rates respectively 60fps and 240 fps. Features like geo-tagging, 1/3" sensor size, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR and optical image stabilization are available. The front facing camera also has face detection feature with 1.2MP camera sensor.

iPhone 6 plus has strong hardware configuration with Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone CPU, latest Apple A8 processor and PowerVR GX6450 (quad-core graphics) GPU. It is powered by 1GB of RAM and 16/64/128 internal storage models are available. It does not have extra memory slot available.