Posted on 12/21/2015 12:46:12 PM PST by Swordmaker
The best big phones battle it out
Phablets may be bigger than the rest of the phone market, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're better than everything else. We've taken the biggest phablets out there and put them through our speed test.
Our phone selection includes the iPhone 6S Plus, Nexus 6P, Microsoft Lumia 950 XL, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Sony Xperia Z5 Premium.
The test includes booting up the phones followed by running through 10 apps that mirror real life. We do two laps of those apps including Netflix, Asphalt 8, Instagram and Spotify.
Who (sic) will win?
We don't want to spoil the full results for you -- but the iPhone 6S Plus wins boots the quickest with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ in second.
That's then followed by the Nexus 6P and the Microsoft Lumia 950 XL at the same time. Sadly the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is in last place.
To find out which phone was fastest and whether it's powerful enough for you, watch our speed test video below.
(Gentlemen, start your engines! The TechRadar Race of Smartphone Phablets.)
Phabulous! Thanks for posting this - not nearly enough threads on apple products on FR
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You're welcome. But snark doesn't become you, Honk. You don't do it very well.
There are over 700 other Freepers who have joined the Apple Ping list who would strongly disagree with you. Thank you for your opinion. You do not have to drop in to these threads and lay your turd in them. Go on to the hundreds of other threads that far out-number the few Apple oriented threads intended for those 700 plus members of the Apple Ping list. Find threads you are interested in and merely ignore these. You will be much happier. So will we with the absence of your unnecessary, useless, and unwelcome comments. Thanks.
Bingo!
Why are they called phablets? They are no bigger than most cell phones my kids and wife have. I confess to woeful ignorance, probably willful too. When I buy though, I want to understand a bit more than what some pimply faced kid tells me, or my children who buy advertising, not quality.
"Phablet" is a contraction of Phone and Tablet coined by the reviewers of smartphones in a sort of derogatory appellation, as they filled the niche between tablets and smartphones. They are a tablet with phone capabilities. There were jokes going around about people holding iPads up to their ears, mimicking phones being used to make calls and showing how ridiculous it would be to use a tablet as a phone. . . and some did look pretty ridiculous (there were some phablets with 7" screens).
I read an article the other day about what Apple has done to their mobile processor technology. Of course, the started with a pretty standard ARM proocessor, but since then they have done many generations of enhancements, and now they are significantly ahead of the competition in terms of processing horsepower per watt,
Can’t watch youtube at work, where are the stats?
We've tested all the best smartphones – which is the fastest?-- By James Rogerson -- TechRadar UK -- December 15, 2015It's a super phone showdown
We've seen a boatload of enormously powerful phones land this year, but just how fast are they? It's all well and good pointing to oct-core processors, but that doesn't always mean much when the dual-core iPhone 6S is such a reliably speedy performer.
Benchmarks give us an idea of how handsets compare, but even those tests don't really reflect real-world performance. So we've done what no benchmark can: here at tech radar we've taken five of the fastest phones of 2015 and tested them by hand.
The Microsoft Lumia 950 and Sony Xperia Z5 will go up against the older Samsung Galaxy S6, iPhone 6S and LG G4.
Sprint to the finish
All the phones begin our test turned off. They then have to boot up and do two laps of ten apps, including games, social media, email and more.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 has a huge amount of power, but it doesn't cache games. The Xperia Z5 has an octa-core chip, but Sony's phones are often slow to boot. The iPhone 6S is underpowered on paper, but always seems slick in practice.
We're not going to spoil the fun – you can see it all play out in our video test below – but when it comes to boot times the iPhone 6S is the fastest at just 13:19, followed closely by the Samsung Galaxy S6 at 16:28.
The LG G4 trails way behind at 28:18, the Lumia 950 is even slower at 35:26 and the Xperia Z5 is the worst performer, with a boot time of 42:07.
Can the Xperia Z5 make up for that lost time? Will the iPhone 6S retain its lead? There's only one way to find out…
(Gentlemen Start your engines. The Techradar Race of Standard-Sized Smartphones)
The results:
- FIRST PLACE: iPhone 6S, finished all tasks in 02:20:25 minutes.
- SECOND PLACE: Samsung Galaxy S6, finished all tasks in 02:26:24 minutes.
- THIRD PLACE: LG G4, finished all tasks in 02:31:15 minutes.
- FOURTH PLACE: Sony Xperia Z5, finished all tasks in 02:51:15 minutes.
- FIFTH PLACE: Microsoft Lumia 950, finished all tasks in 03:26:29 minutes.
Again, the iPhone 6S won the race and the Microsoft Windows phone came in dead last by over a minute slower.
Don't ask the Anti-Apple Thread Troll, RedWing9. They were posted in Reply #1, but here they are again:
- FIRST PLACE: iPhone 6S Plus, finished all tasks in 01:59:29 minutes.
- SECOND PLACE: Google Nexus 6P, finished all tasks in 02:28:03 minutes.
- THIRD PLACE: Samsung Galaxy 6S Edge+, finished all tasks in 02:28:29 minutes.
- FOURTH PLACE: Sony Xperia Z5 Premium, finished all tasks in 02:53:13 minutes.
- FIFTH PLACE: Microsoft Lumia 950 XL, finished all tasks in 03:22:18 minutes.
Phabulous! Thanks for posting this - not nearly enough threads on apple products on FR
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I know you’re just being sarcastic and smarmy, but Jeez, why do you even open Apple threads (I checked your recent posting history) if you don’t like them. Is Apple, to you, like the light is to a moth? You know, you’re just irresistibly attracted to anything Apple, you feel compelled to move toward anything Apple and you’re helpless and powerless to stop yourself from going to Apple threads?
Or are you just trying to make Free Republic an unpleasant site to be on?
And it's an excellent policy. Cook said if you create a back door, then anyone can creep in and access all your private stuff. Too much private stuff in a personal device; you don't want back doors. Back in the day when I did machine programming on IBM mainframes, I created back doors for myself. It's just something software engineers did, and hoped no one else would expose it. I could give highest priority to my stuff, and completely take over the mainframe. Years later I noticed no one discovered them and they were still in there. I'm sure Apple goes over every line of code carefully to make sure their OS is secure and free of back doors.
One Plus - One phone !!! (and now the Two)
Go away with your rotten Apples.
Don’t bother buddy
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