A new series of ad spots by Samsung make the slower results a key talking point. For the top-tier price point, that doesn’t exactly bode well for the Cupertino tech giant.Īpple’s competitors were, of course, extremely quick to take these results and use them to bash the company’s devices. They can be seen below.Īs you can see, Apple’s flagship iPhone X was nearly 10 megabits-per-second slower than Samsung’s S9. The most recent speed data, collected between April and June 2018, shows that Apple’s current iPhone lineup lags behind its closest competitors in terms of internet download speeds.īloomberg reviewed the most recent results, which were an average in megabits-per-second (Mbps) across U.S. That’s important because it takes into account a ton of conditions that might otherwise affect a sterling connection speed, like network congestion and the distance a device is from cell towers.
As Bloomberg points out, Ookla’s data comes from billions of tests by real-world users - not lab-based or sponsored testing.
