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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Mobile and smartphone freaks always have two websites in their mind whenever a brand new phone pops out in the market. Mobiles aren't just mobile anymore and people now a days like to know about it all and thats what they get. Unsurprisingly, the two phone websites are "gsmarena.com" and "phonearena.com" who are there to tell you all you want to know about... These are two awesome mobile websites which have all kinds of information about the mobiles. If you look closely, you will find that most of the time both the websites have same content which of comes from the same source.
People of course enjoy watching reviews and comparisons when new phone comes out in the market. We love the "VS" between phones but what we have right here is quite different. I am sure only few of us had thought about this before but what I would really like to do here is compare two of the greatest websites which are the best for phone reviews and updates. Both are very good sites but today we will finally know who is better than the best.
Here, I have comparison between "GSMArena" and "PhoneArena" on different aspects. They are as follows:
1)Updates (How frequent)
Well, both the websites are updated frequently. We can see around 4 updates about different phones in GSMArena and around 10 updates in PhoneArena. The thing is PhoneArena's updates include both Software and Hardware updates whereas GSMArena's updates are most likely to be hardware(phone) review. If you are looking for only phone update, GSMArena should work best for you. But, like me, if you want to get updated both about hardware and software up-to-date, PhoneArena is the place I would recommend.
1st Round Score:
PhoneArena : 9/10
GSMArena : 7.5/10
2)Quality Content
Both the websites have quality content but the question is who has better content? Who has all the information people seek for? When it comes to quality content, both the sites are almost equally good. The major difference is that,GSMArena only posts important and top news. If you want to know about notable updates and are busy,GSMArena.com is the one you should go after. The thing with PhoneArena is that it has all kinds of news which are kind of mixed up and at times you miss the news you were looking for. By now a days, PhoneArena has featured section which is quite impressive as well but isn't much noticed. So, in this case GSMArena has the upper hand. GSMArena has some clean sections from where you can pick news easily and get the content you are really after.2nd Round Score:
PhoneArena : 7/10
GSMArena : 8/10
3)Phone Reviews
Both the sites take 2/3days to bring out a worth while review of a new phone which is just out in the market. It's understandable why it takes time for the websites to come up with the review. They look at all the aspects before jumping to conclusions. As far as the statistics are concerned, GSMArena releases its review earlier than PhoneArena. The review in both the websites are considerably good but GSMArena has upper hand here as well. Why GSMArena is better in review is that it has many tabs (battery,display,camera,UI,misc,etc) on which the review is based.On the first page, its important features are mentioned and main disadvantages are mentioned as well. PhoneArena's reviews aren't that much detailed. 3rd Round Score:
PhoneArena : 8/10
GSMArena : 8.5/10
4) Phone Battles
Reviews are not just enough for customers to decide which phone is best for them. To make things easier, both the websites have "VS" battle between phones as their first page stuff. Surprisingly, PhoneArena takes up a clear lead in this section because looking at the current situation, PhoneArena has more than 5 new "VS" posts between phones whereas GSMArena has only one. The battle between phones are equally good on both the websites and cannot be compared. But PhoneArena keeps it's things a bit clearer in here. So, PhoneArena wins here. It's 360 degree view in the first page of the battle is impressive as well.4th Round Score:
PhoneArena : 9/10
GSMArena : 8/10
5) Ads and Disturbances
Well, we don't have pop-out ads in neither GSMArena.com nor PhoneArena.com but PhoneArena is a bit cleaner. To be honest, it doesn't have Ads in it's website at all. While some people like Ads being displayed on the sides of the page,most of them don't. The Ads also effect the load time of the website and aren't basically appreciated. PhoneArena has clean win in here.5th Round Score:
PhoneArena :10/10
GSMArena : 8/10
6) Website load up time
Time section may not bother to people having high speed internet but really bothers people having slow internet. Not every country has internet service very well. So, when both the sites were simultaneously opened using the same browser and same internet (ADSL), I found out GSMArena takes 7 seconds to load everything whereas PhoneArena took almost double the time (13 seconds) to load every thing up. It is a huge different but also keep that in mind that PhoneArena loads up a lot of content in its home page. Still, GSMArena wins up here. 6th Round Score:
PhoneArena :7/10
GSMArena :8.5/10
7) Mobile Webpage Interface
Well, GSMArena and PhoneArena are the sites which has quality content about mobiles. Now, let's have a look how their site appear when run on a smartphone. GSMArena is heavily customized for phone and is very simple and easy to use. It is mainly optimized for touchscreen phones. PhoneArena was good as well. Pages loaded very fast and we didn't experience choppiness or lagginess in both the phones. But GSMArena has better web experience which used on a smartphone.7th Round Score:
PhoneArena :8/10
GSMArena :9/10
Conclusion
Well, it's time to decide a winner. Both the websites who judged others are today being judged. Who is going down, let's find out. One of them are going to lose but that doesn't mean that one is superior than the other. If you have time, I recommend you to browse through both "gsmarena.com" and "phonearena.com". By adding up the score of both the websites, we have come to the conclusion that PhoneArena is slightly better than GSMArena. Hats off to PhoneArena for its victory and hope GSMArena catches up in the upcoming days!
Final Score:
PhoneArena :58/70
GSMArena :57.5/10
Stay tuned and stay updated. Do comment and share your opinions below.
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