- So I'm doing a series here on the channel to test
the best phones of 2017
in scientific, OK not that scientific,
the sort of, sort of scientific tests.
And so the first one we're gonna do is speed.
For this experiment I put each device
on the same WiFi network,
loaded the same apps and games that we're going to use
to kind of represent real world scenario,
and also closed all of their open apps,
and then opened each app and game one at a time
and then aligned all of them up
so we could see which one opened it
faster, slower, by how much, etc.
So I chose the phones based on just usage
that I've had in other tests that I've done with them,
and I chose the fastest phones that I thought
would be winners in this, right?
So that means that already all of these phones
are super fast so like none of them are slouches
but I wanted to see if I put all of the phones
that I think are the fastest together
which one would actually win over all.
So, from left to right we have the Essential Phone,
the iPhone X, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, the Note 8,
the OnePlus 5T, and the Pixel 2 XL.
And here we go. ( light, jazzy music)
So first up, let's try to open Twitter.
Ooh, 5T, Pixel 2 XL, and so on and so on
with the iPhone X being last, weird.
Let's try Facebook.
Pixel 2 XL first, Essential next, OnePlus 5T,
Note 8, iPhone X, and the Huawei.
YouTube.
5T again, Huawei this time, Pixel 2 XL, and so on and so on.
OK, then let's do Google Maps.
Pixel 2 XL is first, followed by the Essential,
the OnePlus 5T,
and the iPhone was last again.
Now let's try Pokemon Go.
iPhone is easily first.
Then the OnePlus 5T, the Note 8, the Essential,
the Huawei,
and to my surprise,
the Pixel 2 XL is last.
Next let's do Super Mario Run.
Huawei seems to be having a hard time with this already.
And the Note 8 is first, followed by the iPhone X,
then the Pixel, the OnePlus 5T,
the Huawei and the Essential are struggling and
the Huawei just beats the Essential Phone.
And now let's do Sonic Dash.
iPhone is first,
followed by the Note 8,
the Essential, OnePlus 5T, the Huawei, and the Pixel.
And now for anyone who's curious,
even though I don't know it's that relevant
to the rest of this test,
I figured I'd just throw it in here,
here are benchmarks.
First we have Geekbench,
and then we have 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme.
So I was surprised, the results were kind of
all over the place, but to figure out
kind of a winner, what I did was,
I took all of their places,
so first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,
and gave them a point for each of those.
So first place got 1, second place got 2,
third place got 3, etc. etc. and then
the person with the lowest score
actually ended up winning, if that makes sense.
Now if you do that, the OnePlus 5T has 18 points.
So it would be first, which I'm not that surprised by
considering it's stock Android that's simply been
optimized by OnePlus with a very minimal UI.
Um, but then by a hair it's the Note 8,
which I was surprised by, considering that
Samsung's UI on top historically kind of
makes me feel like the phone is slower.
And then say the Pixel is next with 22 points
compared to the Note 8's 21.
So very close.
Followed by the iPhone X and Essential Phone
both getting 27 points,
and the Mate 10 Pro ending it out with 31.
Now again this isn't the most scientific test,
and honestly like my point system,
maybe I could have like put each, like,
the time that it took so you could see
just a little bit like how, like how much closer
these guys really are to each other,
'cause the points don't really,
like if you were 6th and 1st, like it was only
off by like a second, that doesn't really show you speed.
Anyway, there you go.
I found that super interesting and a little surprising.
I actually was super surprised by the Note 8
and the Essential Phone.
I figured it'd be like the 5T, the Essential,
and the Pixel and the iPhone
kind of just at the top constantly,
and then all the other ones below it.
But, you know, just because like stock Android I assumed
would be faster, and it feels like
for the most part it is, and it was,
and this doesn't take into account other things like
going through the UI and just swiping and other things
I'm only opening apps, but
yeah, that wasn't the case.
So yeah, I thought that was interesting.
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