If Samsung continue to price their offerings at the same price point as Apple, they will always lose. There is absolutely no comparison between an iPhone and a Samsung. I hate Apple as a company, but I'm afraid, their products are excellent and everyone else is always playing catch up.
Water resistance is nice, but how many people don't use a case nowadays? My wife dropped her brand new 64Gb iPhone 5S down the toilet, two weeks after launch. After some rather mean jokes at her expense, I bought her a Lifeproof case at my expense. That iPhone 5S has now been in the swimming pool, in the sea and dropped in the loo again. Yes, it was additional expense, but until Samsung can outclass the iPhone in every way, I'm sticking with Apple.

You fail to mention video. I switched from the iPhone to the Galaxy so I can take some 4K video to view on my 4K monitor. But I know you're an apple fan and it probably was an honest omission.

iPhone is the one playing catch up. iPhone just got NFC and a bigger screen, the finger print reader was out years ago on Motorola Atrix. Phone cases should not be needed, Apple makes their phones look nice for a reason, not to shove it in a ugly ass case. Plus after you buy a 600 dollar phone it sucks to buy a 80 dollar case for it. The S5 has shock resist and water resist, they are moving in the right direction. Apple innovation died with Steve. Sorry. I do like that apple is around, the competition is great. However I really think Apple is going downhill now. FYI the iCloud got hacked again.

Measuring brightness would be a better way of testing battery life , 75% on phone can be vastly different on another and in fact punishes phones with better screens.

It's very Obvious you are partial to the Iphone 6 in your writing. I think they call that Fan-Boys right?
Every little thing Apple does you magnify, and every thing that anyone else does better, you minify.
Try and be more impartial as a writer, unless this is an Opinion column.
Since steve Jobs is gone, Apple is dead. It is a slow death, but, death none the less. It's sad to say, but, innovations from Apple are gone. As can be seen by the 6, and the latest Ipad.

Why anyone would pay $650 (which you pay regardless of contract or not) for a phone is beyond me. Sure, they have all kinds of nifty little "hey-it-will-do-this" features, but their true value in terms of productivity hasn't changed in years. My sons have the newest, top-of-the-line phones, and they can't do anything any more productive than I can do on my Galaxy S2, which I got as a hand-me-down from one of them.
It seems to me it's all about keeping up with the Jones's. For the readers of this online magazine, intelligent, educated, and upwardly mobile, keeping up with the Jones's is probably their No. 1 hindrance to building wealth.

I agree with everything Eric and George are saying. Gs5 if anything has been ahead of the game in terms of specs. Apple however usually almost always has that more "premium" in hand feel. But honestly when it comes to smart phones it's all highly subjective. This article clearly had a huge bias favoring all of the iPhones glory. Like George said this writter needs to be more impartial. All this fan boyism I find quite annoying regardless if it's for Apple or for android. I could understand since devices are very personal objects that people grow almost irrationally attached to, so fan boys are unavoidable, but when it comes to writting an in depth comparison.....leave the fan boy at home.

I had the iPhone for 3 years and really liked it (it was all I'd ever seen). I, decided to go with the Samsung GS4 about a year ago because of some of their features and now I would NEVER go back. I agree the iPhone feels more "premium" but I"ve had more problems with them (screen losing brightness, buttons not working, etc.) than with Samsung. But the BIGGEST thing is the OS. KitKat is leagues ahead of the simplistic IOS.

Thanks for the helpful reviews.
When androids first came out, I burned through 2 of them in the first year .I went back to Apple. After having my 4 for 1 year, the antenna stopped working. Traded up. After 5 years in the same place I can no longer get reception at my home Yes, I realized it could be a tower issue with Verizon. My phone also takes crummy pix.
Now it's time to upgrade, and I'm going to try the Galaxy. The bigger screen will be great. Apple hardware is beautifu, but I the "guts" to work longer than a year.
Good reviews, although light on the Samsung.

I just upgraded my S3 to the S5 and after stripping all the unwanted apps and setting up the phone to my liking, the S5 goes into Camera mode from the lock screen in 3 seconds. I don't know what you have running on yours that it takes you double that, but every single time I try (even while running other apps and locking the phone), I can't get it to fire up the camera slower than that.
As far as the build quality, the S5 is weatherproof, and making it plastic makes sense (you know, to avoid rust).
I would have liked a bit more info on how you took both comparison pictures also, as both phones have a 2.2f aperture (I can't get my S5 to take pics as dark as the one you posted on this article indoors, especially with HDR on, no flash).
Neither phone will take better pics than my Canon 70D, but the S5 for me is a nice upgrade than the one on the S3 (and I love how I was able to get all my apps/settings done quickly, and that is due to the Android system simply being more flexible than Apple's).