Ookla Test UK 5G Mobile Speeds of Samsung S24 vs iPhone 15
New data from Ookla‘s popular broadband connection testing service, Speedtest.net, has revealed how well Samsung’s Galaxy S24, S23 and S22 family perform for 5G based UK mobile broadband speeds vs Apple’s latest iPhone 15 family. Overall, the S24 comes out as the fastest, but experiences may vary.
Naturally, there can be caveats with internet speed testing services like this, since we don’t know anything about the locations of different users, what mobile spectrum bands were being used, whether the devices were performing any other internet connected background tasks while the test was being performed and so forth. Mobile operator performance may also differ between locations by how much capacity they have available.
Nevertheless, Ookla’s latest data attempts to analyse how the Samsung Galaxy S24 family (S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra) measures up against its predecessors, in terms of 5G speed and latency, during its first several weeks on the market. The benchmarking firm also pits those against Apple’s iPhone 15 family (15, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Max) to see how the different chipsets perform.
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In the UK, Samsung’s S24 models were found to be the “fastest in the market“, returning a median (average) 5G download speed of 156.71Mbps – offering a speed gain of nearly 40Mbps compared to the Galaxy S22 family. Galaxy S24 models also posted faster speeds than both the Galaxy S23 and iPhone 15 families. But as we say, take all of this with a pinch of salt, although it’s not unusual to find that the most modern devices tend to also be the fastest.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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why not iPhone 15 Pro??
read the article, pro is included in the iphone 15 FAMILY.
It’s so weird that they’re even bothering doing tests like this. They’re basically meaningless. I can get over 500Mb on 5G with an older iPhone, and I’m sure some Samsung can do too.
They just trying to get in on the silly Samsung vs. Apple crap you see around online from time to time.
I’m sorry the results upset you
649Mbps on a Oneplus 10T this morning. Does depend on the area also.
Haven’t had an android for years, but have a TV with android as the OS. Never known an OS go so slow after about a year. It is truly dreadful.
Haven’t had an iPhone in years. Saved a fortune. Once had an iPhone 3g and it was awful. Never again.
Never had an iPhone because when I first wanted a phone, they were too expensive. Modern iPhones lack basic features that you can get from even a budget phone, such as a fingerprint scanner, headphone jack and expandable storage. Plus they were forced by the EU to no longer use a proprietary charging port.
Therefore, never will get an iPhone either.
TV’s are using low powered cpu’s though. The Samsung A23 budget Android phone has better a cpu and more ram than every Android TV on the market.
The external Andopord boxes like the Shield are very quick because they have good cpus.
In the village I live in I usually see ~800Mb/s down 25Mb/s up whilst indoors. Outdoors it’s around 1.1Gb/s down and 200Mb/s up.
Using an Iphone 15 Pro on the Three network.
Oppo phones like find x7 ultra will beat the Samsung s24 ultra due to better antenna designs.
Apple is like betamax.
Latency is more important than DL.
UL is more relevant than DL.
Get a life
Yes, Betamax had much better picture quality than VHS. 🙂