And the winner of Gadgets & Gizmos' great smartphone face-off is -
Work
As both the iPhone and the Lumia 920 lack multitasking, the fight was between the HTC Butterfly and BlackBerry Z10. While we are so used to the multitasking on Android, the user interface, typing, browsing and multi-tasking won it for the Z10 .
Scores:
Apple iPhone 5: 18
BlackBerry Z10: 20
HTC Butterfly: 19
Nokia Lumia 920: 17
Design and Built
The Lumia 920 was out first as it was a bit too broad to hold and operate. We liked the iPhone and Z10, but our vote went for the HTC Butterfly as even with a 5-inch display, the phone is very sleek. The red on the top and sides make it stand apart.
Scores:
Apple iPhone 5: 19
BlackBerry Z10: 18
HTC Butterfly: 20
Nokia Lumia 920: 17
Battery
None of the smartphones lasted more than a day between charges. We had to regularly close apps when it came to Android and BlackBerry. However, the Apple iPhone 5 easily gave us a day with heavy usage even on a 3G network.
Scores:
Apple iPhone 5: 20
BlackBerry Z10: 18
HTC Butterfly: 17
Nokia Lumia 920: 19
Fun
If we go by camera, the Nokia Lumia 920 is the winner hands down. But the overall experience of watching videos, accessing music and playing games was the best on iPhone 5. Its 8MP camera is good too, especially with its new Panorama.
Scores:
Apple iPhone 5: 20
BlackBerry Z10: 17
HTC Butterfly: 19
Nokia Lumia 920: 18
Apps
The number of apps in their stores pushed the BlackBerry World and Windows Marketplace behind. While the competition was between Android and Apple, the latter won due to the wide variety of apps available for its platform.
Scores:
Apple iPhone 5: 20
BlackBerry Z10: 17
HTC Butterfly: 19
Nokia Lumia 920: 18
THE WINNER
It was not much of a surprise that Apple's iPhone 5 won the smartphone face-off by being a consistent performer across many parameters and winning a few of them hands down.
Apple iPhone 5: 97/100
HTC Butterfly: 94/100
BlackBerry Z10: 90/100
Nokia Lumia 920: 89/100
