Last week One Plus launched its very first smartphone, One Plus One. The Device sports its very own CyanogenMod 11s and comes with top specifications. One Plus is positioning the One as a Flagship Killers, because of its High End Specifications and unbeatable price. We will compare its specs and features with Samsungs Top Smartphone in the Market, the S5 to see where the One Plus One really stands.

Also Read: Check Out Our Review of the Samsung Galaxy S5

One Plus One Vs Samsung S5

 

Design

 

Both devices are made from plastic, but have some points that differentiate them. The One Plus One Smartphone has a very clean and minimalistic design, with almost no decorative features and a smooth plastic rear. The Samsung S5 on the other hand offers more of a premium finish, and a soft touch plastic back with textured design.
Both smartphones give a quality feeling and are well built, despite their manufacturing of plastic. Still both devices will probably have strong competiton against metal built handsets like the HTC ONE or HTC ONE M8 when it comes to the design.

Winner: Same

Display and Screen

 

Both smartphone come with 1080p displays, but the One Plus One offers a bigger screen with 5.5 inches. The Screen of the Galaxy S5 is “only” 5.1 inches and therefore signifantly smaller.

The Samsung S5 uses its characteristic Super AMOLED Display, which is already used in devices like the Galaxy Note 3. The Pixel Density is at 441ppi and it offers great colors and a beautiful display.

On the other hand the One uses a LTPS (Low Temperature Polysilicone) LCD display. The smartphone also sports TOL, Touch on Lens, that makes the screen more shatterproof by negating the distance between display and the touch sensors.

As mentioned both screens the ONE and the S5 come with the same resolution of 1080p. The One PLus One has a lower pixel density though with 401ppi vs the 441ppi of the S5, because of the wider surface with 5.5 inch. In every day use there will be no significant difference in usage for the normal user.

Winner: This one is a Tie again. Both smartphones have very solid and high quality displays. When it comes to screen in this case it really matters on the personal preference of the user. With 5.5 inch the One Plus One is the same category as the larger Galaxy Note 3 and more a phablet, then a smartphone.

Hardware and Specs

 

Both smartphones the One Plus One and the S5 come equipped with one of the best processors available for Android at the moment: the quad core Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.5 GHZ and Adreno 330 GPU.

One remarkable extra point is that the One Plus One comes with an impressive 3GB of RAM, thats an full extra 1GB of RAM compared to the Galaxy S5 2GB of RAM. Like most of our readers will know, RAM is one of the most deciding factors when it comes to smooth performance and APP execution for Smartphones. Most likely this feature should give the One Plus One some points on all benchmark Scores on the S5.

For Internal Storage the Galaxy S5 comes with 16 GB internal Storage in the Standard Version and via Micro-SD extendable up too 128 GB internal storage. The One Plus One has no option for memory expansion. It is available though with internal storage options as big as 64GB ( also available with 16GB).

The S5 is clearly Samsung Flagship in the moment and offers some high end featurs that you wont find on any other smartphones. One of the most useful is the ultrea power saving mode, which offers huge power saving by utilizing only minimal resources, super important with todays smartphone generation. Also you get a finger print scanner, which is actually usable and a heart rate monitor.

Winner: For us the One Plus One is the Winner in this category. While the S5 can point with Apps and additional features, an extra 1GB of Ram is worth a lot when it comes to performance and usage of the phone.

Camera and Pictures

We heard much of the Samsung S5 Camera, e.g in this ad where Samsung makes fun of Apple for having double the megapixel then Iphones 5s.

The Camera of the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with 16 MP ISOCELL and offers simply great pictures. Check our article here for some samples of the Samsung S5 Camera. The One Plus One competes with a 13MP Sony Exmor RS Sensor combined with 6 parts lens with f/2,0 aperture and dual LED flash.

With this camera and lenses you can be sure that both will offer fantastic performance and solid pictures. If you like shooting selfies or use Skype a lot you might like the One Plus One more. It is equipped with a 5 Megapixel Front Camera vs the Galaxg S5 2.1 Megapixel Front Cam.

Winner: Tie.

Software

One of the areas where the OnePlus One can really dominate is the software. It comes with CyanogenMod 11S, which is a special release customized to this smartphone. It featues stock Android 4.4 Kitkat, a lot of customization options and other great features like playing FLAC files.

Also the One Plus one has voice command for waking the phone up, launching apps or pre-set gestures.

Samsung S5 is delivered with the characteristic TouchWiz UI, with new features and updates. Youve get new apps like MyMagazine, which is a second screen to aggregate your favorite media.

Winner: OnePlus One. With Cyanogen Mod 11S you have total freedom to customize your OS and the software of the One Plus one. With Samsung Touch WIZ is signifcantly harder to customize the smartphone after your taste.

So far One Plus has announced the One for 16 countries at an impressive pricing of 290 USD ( around 980RM) and only 349 USD ( 1140 RM) for the 64 GB Version. Thats literally unbeatable.