Samsung GALAXY Note 9 si iPhone XS were compared in terms of Internet browsing speeds using 4G LTE, and as you can imagine, Apple's phone did not register great speeds. Although the iPhone XS/Max now have the 4×4 MIMO technology integrated by Apple for the first time, the Samsung GALAXY Note 9 remains superior in internet browsing speeds thanks to the Qualcomm X20 modem, the same is true for the Google Pixel 2, with the X16 modem .
The Samsung GALAXY Note 9 is much better than the iPhone X, with an Intel 7480 modem, and compared to the iPhone XS Max, with an Intel 7560 modem, the differences are minor, but they exist and must be highlighted. In the image below you can see that the Samsung GALAXY Note 9, Google Pixel 2 and iPhone XS Max start from speeds of 400 Mbps in 4G LTE networks, while the iPhone X starts from only 200 Mbps, the difference being huge for the old model of Apple.
Samsung GALAXY Note 9 has SUPERIOR 4G Speeds iPhone XS
The Samsung GALAXY Note 9 has similar performances to those of the iPhone XS Max as the signal strength decreases, but it has a slight advantage during the test, while the iPhone X has poor performances throughout the test. Samsung GALAXY Note 9 and Google Pixel 2 also manage to offer slightly better performance than the iPhone XS even when the signal is very weak, but the differences are not as big as last year, with the iPhone X.
The Samsung GALAXY Note 9 no longer surpasses the iPhone XS phones in 4G performance with a difference that matters substantially in everyday life, those from Intel managing to improve their modems quite a bit. Despite this, there are still differences between the Samsung GALAXY Note 9 and the iPhone XS in the performance that users enjoy, but these are small and will probably remain small even in 2019.
