Samsung Galaxy Ace is new phone announced at CES 2011 this January and available from February 2011. HTC wildfire is a bit old and was released last year. The price of these phones are similar and both are mid range Android phones.

Here we publish a detailed comparison between Samsung Galaxy Ace and HTC Wildfire:

	Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830	HTC Wildfire
Dimensions	59.9 x 112.4 x 11.5 mm	61 x 117 x 12 mm
Weight	114 g	118 g
Display Type	3.5 ” 320 x 480 pixel 16M color TFT capacitive touch screen	3.2 ” 240 x 320 pixel 16M color TFT capacitive touch screen
Operating system	Android 2.2	Android 2.1 (upgradable to 2.2)
Multi-touch	Yes	Yes
Accelerometer sensor	Yes	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes	Yes
Optical track pad	No	Yes
UI	TouchWiz v3.0	HTC Sense
CPU	800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227	528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7625
GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 200	No
RAM and ROM	512 MB, 158MB internal memory	384 MB, 512MB ROM
Expandable Me  mory	MicroSD up to 32GB, 2 GB included in the box	MicroSD up to 32GB, 2 GB included in the box
Camera	5 MP with autofocus and LED Flash	5 MP with autofocus and LED Flash
Additional Camera features	Geo Tagging, Smile and face detection	Geo Tagging
WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth	v 2.1 with A2DP	v 2.1 with A2DP
GPS	Yes, with A-GPS	Yes, with A-GPS
3G	Yes, HSDPA – 7.2 Mbps	Yes, HSDPA – 7.2 Mbps
FM radio	Yes, with RDS	Yes, with RDS
Battery	1350 mAh Standby – 640 h (2G) / Up to 420 h (3G) Talk time – 11 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)	1300 mAh, Standby – 480 h (2G) / Up to 690 h (3G) Talk time – 7 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 10 min (3G)
Price	Rs 15,100	Rs 13,500

 

Mobile Gyaan Verdict:

Even though Galaxy ace has better processor and battery life than HTC Wildfire there are several kind of lacuna in it such as no flash support in web browser and light sensor. Other than that both lacks DivX/Xvid video support out of the box. Galaxy Ace has HVGA screen which is better than QVGA screen in wildfire. If you need a phone with better screen and processor go for Samsung Galaxy ace otherwise go for wildfire which is cheaper. Else you could also wait for HTC Wildfire S that has better screen and RAM which will release in India in the upcoming months.

Winner:

Samsung Galaxy Ace. Though price is slightly higher than Wildfire, it has bigger screen and better resolution, better processing power, improved battery, pre-installed Froyo are some of the few features that makes it worth to pay additional hundreds of bucks for the Galaxy Ace over HTC Wildfire.

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Update: As pointed out by Anubhav, Samsung Galaxy Ace doesn’t have an LED Flash. Those who want a phone to take lots of pics, consider this point.