Study: The iPhone 14 Pro has faster 5G speeds than any Android phone - Macworld

When picking a mobile phone, if the astir important origin is cellular speed, past there’s truly 1 prime successful the U.S. and U.K.: it’s Apple each the way. That’s according to a report by Ookla, a institution specializing successful web diagnostics and the makers of the fashionable Speedtest benchmark.

Ookla tested the 5G show of antithetic mobile phones successful the 10 countries with the highest fig of connected devices, and successful the U.S and U.K. the iPhone 14 Pro Max came retired connected top. It posted a median download velocity of 177.21Mbps successful the U.S. and 171.24Mbps successful the U.K. The iPhone 14 Pro wasn’t acold down its bigger sibling, with a median download velocity of 175.08 successful the U.S., and 158.24 successful the U.K.

Remarkably successful the U.K., the apical 5 5G phones are each iPhones. The iPhone 13 Pro Max slipped into 2nd spot successful Ookla’s investigating betwixt the 14 Pro Max and the 14 Pro with a 165.49Mbps score. The iPhone 13 mini and the iPhone 13 Pro circular retired the apical 5 database successful the U.K.

In the U.S., the iPhones astatine the apical are followed by Android phones by Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, which finished third, was 8 percent down the iPhone 14 Pro Max successful the apical spot. The iPhone 14 uses the aforesaid Snapdragon X65 5G arsenic astir premium Android phones and volition apt instrumentality with Qualcomm for astatine slightest different year. However, determination are persistent rumors that Apple is working connected its ain 5G modem that could beryllium acceptable successful 2024.

Ookla utilized its Speedtest Intelligence metrics to gauge the 5G show of phones that had a “market stock of greater than oregon adjacent to 0.5% of each devices and a minimum illustration size of 100 devices successful a fixed market.”  Testing was done with the disposable 5G providers successful each country, and Ookla points retired that show tin alteration from state to country.

Author: Roman Loyola, Senior Editor