With new cell phones flooding the market almost every day, it is important that you evaluate the price and performance of each device before purchasing one. Readers in the United States, who are contemplating to purchase either the iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S5, may find the price, specification and performance comparisons below useful.

Design and Display

The iPhone 5S comes with a four-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive (exhibiting electrical capacitance) touch screen, which delivers 640 X 1136 pixel resolution. On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is available with a 5.1 inch super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, providing 1080 X 1920 pixel resolutions.

The dimensions of iPhone 5S are 123.8 X 58.6 X 7.6 mm and it weighs about 112 grams. Samsung S5 measures 142 X 72.5 X 8.1 mm and weighs 145 grams.

Hardware and Operating System

The iPhone 5S incorporates a 1.3 GHz dual core cyclone processor plus Apple A7 chipset. It is available in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB memory variants, but does not have any Micro SD slot for added memory. This device runs on the iOS 7 operating system and includes 1 GB RAM.

On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy S5 incorporates a 2.5 GHz quad core krait 400 processor, in addition to a Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 chipset. It is available in two internal memory variants - 16 GB and 32 GB. This device runs on the Android KitKat operating system and possesses 2 GB of RAM.

Camera

iPhone 5S has an 8 MP primary camera with autofocus and dual LED flash facilities. It also has a 1.2 MP secondary camera. The Samsung Galaxy S5 includes a 16 MP primary camera having phase detection autofocus and LED flash facilities, in addition to a 2 MP secondary camera.

Battery

iPhone 5S has a fixed Li-Po 1560 mAh battery that allows the user 10 hours talk time on 3G, while Samsung Galaxy S5 has a Li-Ion 2800 mAh battery allowing the user 21 hours talk time.

Price

iPhone 5S 16 GB variant costs about $649, while the 32 GB variant is priced at $749. The 16 GB variant of Samsung Galaxy S5 is priced at $734.99.

While iPhone 6 is due later this year, currently the iPhone 5S is the best iOS smartphone on the market.