A recent study by Open Signal has revealed that high-end Samsung smartphones offer the best 4G LTE experience.
The “How The Smartphone affects Mobile Network Experience” study pitted over 23 million Samsung, Huawei and Apple devices against each other and took 117 Billion measurements across a 90-day period.
The study that was done across 40 countries showed that Samsung smartphones offered the best LTE experience in 35% of the countries.
Apple was ranked second and its smartphones offered the best experience in 17.5% of the countries. Interestingly, Huawei rank as the vendor with the fastest smartphones
The study is interesting in the sense that it demystifies the assumption that smartphones offer the a similar connectivity experience regardless of the vendor.
Another note-worthy bit of the study is the issue of connectivity performance across the different tiers.
Whereas Samsung had the best performing premium smartphones, Apple had the best performance for mid-range smartphones while Huawei budget smartphones had the best performance.
This implies that when shopping for a budget smartphones, you should have a slight preference for Huawei smartphones, all other factors held constant.
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