Phablets from Samsung finally got competition when Apple released the iPhone 6 Plus last year. Here is how the first Apple phablet compares to the Galaxy Note 3 from Samsung.

Design

The device from Apple has a huge advantage when it comes to design as it has a metal unibody and rounded edges which give it a premium look and feel. It also comes with a fingerprint sensor, which is not present on its competitor, the Note 3.

As for the device from Samsung, it has a plastic body and a back panel covered in faux leather and designed with with a stitch running along its edge. The Note 3 has an S Pen Stylus which the 6 Plus does not have. This tool makes it very easy for users to write or draw on the screen.

Display

Comparing their displays, the iPhone 6 Plus comes with an IPS LCD screen measuring 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and a density of 401 pixels per inch while the Note 3 has a super AMOLED screen measuring 5.7 inches with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and a density of 386 pixels per inch.

Specs

The Note 3 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, a Krait 400 CPU with four cores clocked at 2.3 GHz and an Adreno 330 GPU but it is not as fast as the iPhone 6 Plus which comes with an Apple A8 chipset, a Cyclone CPU with two cores clocked at 1.4 GHz and a PowerVR GX6450 GPU.

Memory

The iPhone 6 Plus, like other Apple devices, has no memory slot and so external storage cannot be added. The slot on the Note, on the other hand, can be used to add up 64 GB. In terms of RAM, the device from Apple is underpowered as it only has 1 GB compared to the Note 3 which comes with 3 GB.

Price

The 16 GB iPhone 6 Plus costs $299 with a two-year contract while the Note 3 costs $99 with a similar contract.