“Phablets may be bigger than the rest of the phone market, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re better than everything else,” James Peckham reports for TechRadar UK. “We’ve taken the biggest phablets out there and put them through our speed test.”
Peckham reports, “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,” Peckham reports. “We do two laps of those apps including Netflix, Asphalt 8, Instagram and Spotify.”
Peckham reports, “To find out which phone was fastest and whether it’s powerful enough for you, watch our speed test video below.”
Direct link to video via TechRadar UK here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple iPhone 6s Plus. Desktop class speed in the palm of your hand.
(Imagine if they’d used one with the TSMC A9! 😉 )
SEE ALSO:
AnandTech reviews Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus: Editors’ Choice Gold Award – November 2, 2015
One month with the Apple iPhone 6s Plus: Smartphone usage without compromise – October 30, 2015
Wired reviews Apple’s iPhone 6s Plus: ‘absurdly fast; crazy fast; this one feels different’ – October 5, 2015
The iPhone 6s Plus is the best computer I’ve used – and a reason to upgrade every year – September 29, 2015
The Verge reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘You should buy an iPhone 6S Plus’ – September 22, 2015
Financial Times reviews Apple’s iPhone 6s/Plus: The ‘s’ stands for speed – October 1, 2015
Ars Technica reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: 3D Touch and the A9 chip are the stars of the show – September 28, 2015
John Gruber reviews Apple’s iPhone 6s/Plus: Everything is new – September 23, 2015
Insanely Great: iPhone 6s benchmarks as powerful as the Retina MacBook – September 22, 2015
TechCrunch reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘The camera alone is worth the price of admission’ – September 22, 2015
Mossberg reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘The best smartphone, period.’ – September 22, 2015
The Verge reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: ‘You should buy an iPhone 6S Plus’ – September 22, 2015
USA Today’s Baig reviews iPhone 6s/Plus: 3D Touch, great camera add up to tempting upgrade – September 22, 2015
“We don’t want to spoil the full results for you”…. but we’re going to do it anyway.
Nice showing, iPhone!
That’s a nice Christmas present endorsement for the iPhone.
It’s also utterly gloat worthy and I love it.
Its sad you use the boot up speed in the test who cares how fast the phones boots up. That’s the only way the waist of money iPhone would ever beat the 6p. Just look at every other video on the web. The nexus beats every phone they put it against l. I’m not even an android fan i use a Lumia 950 my girl has a 6p and it would burn an iPhone any day of the week they’re overpriced garbage
?????
You sound like a teenage boy in a pissing contest with someone. You don’t even use an iPhone so who cares what you think anyway?
U stupid idiot his phone the lumia 950 and my nexus 6p are both in the testing that’s y we care. And I know that my nexus blows the iPhone away. U all need to get the f off the iPhone ban wagon and try using a real phone.
Ask your girl for help translating this into intelligible english.
U know what he’s saying. U just can’t come up with something better to say cus u know he’s right. The nexus blows the iPhone awaybin every other test. This one cheats cus they can’t come to terms with the fact that other phones are actually better the their precious iPhone.
His Girl is really his LEFT HAND or RIGHT HAND, that loves him long time…well in his case, super short time. lol
matk your logic is flawed in regards to boot up. 6p did not make up ground or even stay even with the iPhone after boot. The 6p was 18 sec slower to boot but finished the test 29 second behind the iPhone.
Thats because they pushed it last after all the other phones. Thats ur 18 seconds. Every other test online blows it away. This test is rigged. Also on top of it if u know anything about phones at all u can see that the iPhone is running on a network connection and the 6p and the 950 both are running wifi. So again Rigged.
I hope that next year when you enter the fifth grade that you devote your energies to becoming more than just semi-literate. You’ll still be a dumb shit for life, but people will have a better chance of understanding the retarded drivel you’re spouting off.
Nice troll, matk
R u serious u just can’t handle hearing the truth. Watch a real video and u will see, in real test they don’t start till all phones are done booting. Who cares about how long it takes the phone to boot, most people don’t turn their phone on and off every time they go to use it.
I care.
Really, Matk? TechRadar ran a real world test last week:
We’ve tested all the best smartphones – which is the fastest?
In which they tested the iPhone 6S against the Lumia 950. We’ve already seen the time the Nexus 6P turned in (02:28:03 minutes) and here are the results from last week’s test of the other phones:
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.
Your vaunted Microsoft Lumia 950 was worst of the lot by one minute six point three seconds. So much for your junk opinions. These were REAL WORLD tests, Matk.
Where’s the 6p huh? And the hardware in the 950 is way better. The OS is still not finished was it is u all will be eating ur words.
The Nexus 6P was tested in the latest speed test in this article. Didn’t you bother to watch it? If not, here are the results:
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.
U r a real idiot I was replying to ur post of the other test. And the only reason the 6p is in second on this test and not on others is because it was rigged by a bias jerk that had to make sure the high and mighty iPhone beats them all so much that it’s obviously unreal.
You are the biased jerk, idiot. The Nexus 6P wasn’t included because of rigging of the tests. With a 5.7″ screen, it is a PHABLET. Ergo, you don’t compare its speed against the smaller phones. Your complaint is idiotic as are you.
The processor isn’t faster, nor is it better as is demonstrate by its poorer showing in the geek benchmarks. It LOST to the faster iPhone in the test it was included in: the Phablet face-off. Face it. The iPhone 6s Plus, Nexus 6P face-off were placed against the phones in the category they both compete against and the iPhone 6s Plus won. . . nothing more. The iPhone 6s Plus processor has been shown to be faster in every geek benchmark you can find. So suck it up, His girl. Face reality.
Ur very childish in my mind benchmarks are bull, cus it’s just test the chips not teal world use. Also if u wanna talk about benchmarks the note 5 beats them all including Ur precious iPhone. Now u wanna see the truth here’s a video for u.https://youtu.be/q2Hx3dOP9xI
BS, His girl, Bench Marks use the same tests between platforms, and get the same results to compare against each other. Apps differ due to many factors. You are wrong that the Note 5 beats all of them. It simply does not. I have reviewed the various bench marks published by independent testing labs. The iPhones best all the rest. Sorry, if that gets your panties in a wad, that’s your problem, not mine. You are the one who seems to be acting childish. . . and using childish texting writing, not me. I responded to you in-kind only after you started with the ad hominem attacks and insults. You have no cogent arguments or facts. Your link showed a single comparison which was no where near the technical expertise done by the unbiased testing done in this article leading these comments, which included both of these phones.
I will grant you that the Nexus is a fine phone. It is still an Android. . . a ripped off copy of the iOS design.
If the hardware in the Lumia 950 were “way better” why isn’t it beating all comers in the speed tests and other tests? Since it isn’t, His girl, it isn’t “better,” it isn’t even in the running. Again, one has to question your logic and your thinking ability. Even the photo comparisons has the iPhone 6S plus winning the shoot-offs against the Lumia 950. Just having more pixels doesn’t make it “better.” That is only one metric in a compendium of metrics of comparison. . . not the only one.
Propaganda. Old icon look os thats all
This is why Apples spent their money and time creating 64bit chips first, than large phones. It makes it faster, little bits add up. I believe 64bit is what has made fingerprint scanner and 3D Touch work. Android is far behind now. I did not realize just how bad MS is.
The only thing that matters to Wall Street is how Android has 85% market share. No one is impressed with iPhones minor market share or major profit share. An analyst will happily tell you that any Android smartphone is just as good as an iPhone and costs a lot less and also Apple has stopped innovating. The industry is more impressed with octa-core processors and multi-gigs of system RAM, the more the better. There’s obviously a divergence in the Force and Apple is still considered doomed. The iPhone winning this speed test changes nothing. Be very aware of “peak iPhone” which is supposed to seal Apple’s fate.
Everyone needs to get off the iPhone ban wagon man. In this wonderful cheating rigged test the phone are not being started all at the same time, and the iPhone is running on a network connection while the 6p and 950 are on wifi. I own a 6p, my husband has the 950 and I’m telling the 6p is a beast it’s way better then the iPhone. The windows os needs some work still on the 950, but there working on it and my husband runs so much better than the one on the video thanks to the updates he has gotten. I had a hard time deciding what phone to get and even though I HATE iPhones (and anyone that uses them) I thought about getting one, but after a whole lot of research I found the nexus 6p is the best phone that has come out this year. The person who made this video is obviously bias to iPhones and I’m should had to re-do the video many timesto get it the right way for the iPhone to beat it.
Maybe if you had an iPhone you wouldn’t be so illiterate. Or at least you would appear less illiterate because iOS would help you form cohesive and word accurate sentences. Shucks.
Congratulations on being happy with your phone. Just be careful of all the malware available on the Google Play store. Android is known to not be secure.
Wow, you make some really bad decisions in life huh?
I think his girl rides the short bus. Or just stepped off a boat. Or needs to dry her shirt.
Sheesh and these fandroid/windopes call US sheep? They are a pitiful lot, indeed.