Today most cell-phone users have a data plan where if they left a wifi hotspot it would not interrupt their download. But not every cell user wants to be downloading things on their data plan, since it uses a lot of it and costs them money. This is why I will be testing the different download speeds of games and other applications across all three devices.
Since all the phones don't have any way for myself to access the download time information I will just be using a stopwatch (for all intensive purposes this should still show an accurate representation of its speed) to record the download speeds. After I have gotten the time it took to download the apps of all the things I downloaded, I will move into accessing the speed of the apps once inside them, such as time it takes to load pages and information (since this will be too close to call with a stopwatch, I will just be playing around with each app myself and relaying what one I visually saw work the quickest).
I will be downloading the applications Facebook, since its a very popular social media site, and The Weather Channel. Each phone is also connected to the same wifi service, and that is John Carroll University's closed network, jcuwpa2. According to speedtest.net, as I conduct these test the wifi download speeds reached close to 135mbps and upload speeds close to 140mbps.
Here are the results of the tests:
Facebook:
Windows phone:
Windows phone:
Download time - 20.3 seconds from time of click
Android phone:
Download time - 15.7 seconds from time of click
iOS phone:
Download time - 12.3 seconds from time of click
The Weather Channel:
Windows phone:
Windows phone:
Download time - 17.3 seconds from time of click
Android phone:
Download time - 15.4 seconds from time of click
iOS phone:
Download time - 11.1 seconds from time of click
Based on the data above, we can clearly see that the iOS device is the fastest to download applications, followed by Android then Windows. Now that all the applications have been installed on the three devices, it is time for myself to ravage through them and see the speed of the apps once in them, again, since there is no way for me to get actual times I will just be analyzing the speed myself (and don't worry, you can trust me).
What I found out after going through all the apps is that they are all visually different. With Facebook, all the apps had a different feel to them, and I could easily tell they were on different devices. Browsing from page to page on all the devices within Facebook I was able to conclude that the iOS device had the smoothest and quickest transitions when it would load new information. The runner-up however was to close to call. The Android device and Windows device both were extremely similar with its speed in the app. Although the Android device did download faster than the Windows phone, it did not manage to beat it once inside the app. With that being said, I am going to have to call this once a tie.
With The Weather Channel application however, there was a noticeable difference in speed across all the phones. Once again the iOS device finished at the top of the list, having had the quickest load times compared to the other two. This time however, the runner-up corresponds to the order of what apps downloaded the quickest, so in second place is the Android device. For some reason the Windows device was significantly slower than the other two, sometimes as much as five seconds slower to load a simple page within it. I found this interesting to happen within this application and not Facebook, since Facebook needs to load in a lot more information for the user to see.
Overall we can see clearly that the iOS device remains superior to the other two. Although the numbers were close and speeds were similar only one can still take home the gold.
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