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What is the fastest smartphone to download?
Ookla is the company responsible for the popular website speedtest.net, an online tool that tests the speed of connections. The company decided to do a study on which mobile devices do the fastest downloads and uploads, pointing to the Samsung Galaxy S9 as the "winner2.To perform the tests, the company created identical conditions for each smartphone, connecting them to a CAT 18 LTE modem, allowing speeds up to 1.2 Gbps, depending on the speed of the networks. However, the hardware of the mobile phones themselves can condition the speed of the network, and that is what the company concluded, highlighting the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus as the fastest, with a significant margin over the remaining handsets.The new smartphone from Samsung is thus, according to Ookla, 37% faster than the iPhone X and 38% than the previous S7 of the manufacturer, and still 17% higher than Google Pixel 2. The differences reach 42% compared to other brands.In a time when wireless connections are about to transition to 5G, manufacturers are starting to deploy LTE network infrastructures for connections above 1Gbp. But to improve performance, it's not enough that only networks are optimized, smartphones have to withstand this speed, as demonstrated by the Ookla study.

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