We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Sony XA2 Ultra's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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Not sure why, but the service seems to drop regularly. a few times throughout the day
On att never drop speeds are always consistent.
li0nh3art3d said:
Not sure why, but the service seems to drop regularly. a few times throughout the day
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on t mobile? I'm thinking of getting this phone for someone but need to read about it more
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on t mobile? I'm thinking of getting this phone for someone but need to read about it more
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yeah I'm on T mobile. I think it was a local problem with the towers in the area. It was in rural Texas, and the issue seems to have cleared up. I think it just coincided with the first week I owned the phone. I don't think it's the phone, and T mobile seems to have cleared up the network issue since my review actually.
The biggest drawbacks I see, coming from the past Samsung flagship Note 4, is the minimum & maximum brightnesses could be a bit brighter/dimmer, and the camera could fare better in dim light.
Note 4 had a wider brightness adjustment range, from dimmer to brighter) although I haven't had issues with seeing in direct sunlight, the screen just isn't as bright as the phone I'm used to, and doesn't go as dim as I'd like it to go in the dark. but overall doesn't present a problem honestly.
The camera kind of sucks without flash in dim lighting too. But in bright light, it snaps stunning, wide-angled selfies, and pretty good rear facing pictures.
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yeah I'm on T mobile. I think it was a local problem with the towers in the area. It was in rural Texas, and the issue seems to have cleared up. I think it just coincided with the first week I owned the phone. I don't think it's the phone, and T mobile seems to have cleared up the network issue since my review actually
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thx for the reply I also saw a review on amazon saying they had problems on tmo too. made me wonder if I should really get it
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thx for the reply I also saw a review on amazon saying they had problems on tmo too. made me wonder if I should really get it
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I was actually having issues with T mobile a couple weeks ago. not just me, but also my family. They seem to have cleared up though. I'd recommend it if you can deal with mid-range brightness adjustment and poor camera performance in dim lighting. Those are definitely my biggest drawbacks
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We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Honor 6X's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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In my opinion it works very well, i attach a screenshot of a speedtest of mine made 1 minute ago.
I only use data connection like 1/4 of the time. But with that time I have no complaints.
not bad at all. Been using this since 10 months now and havent faced the issue with signal strength unless I am in poor network range. If the network is proper, dont see any issue here with the quality at all
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In my opinion it works very well, i attach a screenshot of a speedtest of mine made 1 minute ago.
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This is great bro. On mobile data its ****t speeds these days here.
All are just boasting on data plans but speed is just rediculous these days
shashank1320 said:
This is great bro. On mobile data its ****t speeds these days here.
All are just boasting on data plans but speed is just rediculous these days
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Yeah that's nice. I usually browse almost all the time on HSPA, in that screenshot i had 4G on to achieve the best result that was possible
It's great
Really impressed with cellular reception and call quality
Once i visited to a desert area of Rajasthan and there is very common problem that there you can't find network inside home but honor 6x was having network everywhere no matter indoor or outdoor and it was able to make call and i can surf internet while others just wait for network.
Best in class i would say
Works better than my cable WiFi on data and call strength is very good.
Just got this device. Cellular strength is a bit better than my retired Galaxy J5.
not good signal reception in my area.so.....
Cellular strength is ok. Not that strong, not that weak.
Reception on the 6X can be a bit spotty at times.
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Moto X4's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.
i have a x4 tire very nice piece i do not understand why the android nug for 16.7 gb is this a lot? true dual sim
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i have a x4 tire very nice piece i do not understand why the android nug for 16.7 gb is this a lot? true dual sim
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Yes mine system takes about 18g as well.
One bar better signal than my S8 side by side.
It would be helpful if folks would add their location, carrier and dBm seen, as bars are not directly proportional across different devices.
Thanks.
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i have a x4 tire very nice piece i do not understand why the android nug for 16.7 gb is this a lot? true dual sim
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I do believe all version have Alexia pre installed. But it comes disabled or enabled. This doesn't make any sense, this is too much for a default Android N installation. Motorola apps also aren't that big. Can anyone with Alexia enabled version confirm how much space the system occupy?
Where I live Alexia isn't available. System space is 15GB
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I do believe all version have Alexia pre installed. But it comes disabled or enabled. This doesn't make any sense, this is too much for a default Android N installation. Motorola apps also aren't that big. Can anyone with Alexia enabled version confirm how much space the system occupy?
Where I live Alexia isn't available. System space is 15GB
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Something that I thought about here, is it maybe that high because of the dual slots for the new way that updates are done (like the Pixels have, the A and B slots so updates can be more seamless)? I don't have this phone, or the Pixels (so I don't know if the Pixel uses that much space for the system apps), but 15 would be approximately double the normal amount (such as on my N5X uses 7 GB). Like I said, its just a thought, but someone could confirm or deny how much the system apps on a Pixel take up, you could have an answer.
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Something that I thought about here, is it maybe that high because of the dual slots for the new way that updates are done (like the Pixels have, the A and B slots so updates can be more seamless)? I don't have this phone, or the Pixels (so I don't know if the Pixel uses that much space for the system apps), but 15 would be approximately double the normal amount (such as on my N5X uses 7 GB). Like I said, its just a thought, but someone could confirm or deny how much the system apps on a Pixel take up, you could have an answer.
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Thanks a lot for the hint!
I will search for more info on it! I will update on what I found
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Thanks a lot for the hint!
I will search for more info on it! I will update on what I found
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You're welcome! I've been watching and reading these forums with the thought of possibly getting an X4 in February or March coming up (been using the N5X since Feb '16 so I'm in the process of researching my next phone and this one looks promising).
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You're welcome! I've been watching and reading these forums with the thought of possibly getting an X4 in February or March coming up (been using the N5X since Feb '16 so I'm in the process of researching my next phone and this one looks promising).
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What I have found about system partition is in here: https://source.android.com/devices/...-did-ab-affect-the-2016-pixel-partition-sizes
Yet, in real world scenario, each system partition is taking (4GB + 2GB to the vendor)*2
I have also found that google assistant can take up to 5 GB!
What I can tell you about this phone, that you should know is:
- Front facing camera have fixed focus, and the minimum distance for a good focus is about 45cm from phone! Acceptable from 35cm and beyond. See attached photo.
- Original Motorola Camera app is beta and buggy by now. Can be very slow sometimes.
- Back Facing Camera has pretty low MP for me. As this doesn't have zoom lens, 12MP is too low to make any digital zoom. I am jumping from a Moto X Play with 21MP to the Moto X4 with 12MP. I got used to take pictures away and cropping it with digital zoom, keeping a descent quality. Now this resource is gone.
- Fingerprinting reader has medium speed. Is acceptable. And it is limited to 5 fingers only.
- Screen Brightness is pretty low for a mid high device. It loose lot's of viewing when under the sun, specially compared to moto X Play.
-There is only one speaker on the phone, all the sounds comes from the ear speaker! And the quality of the sound is really bad when loud. I couldn't figure it out what is really happening, but the problem seems to come from something vibrating. I am betting on the IP68 protection barrier on the speaker.
Now getting back to the topic of this thread, the cellular strength for this phone is average, but Wifi is weak, from my bedroom, which is the room with the most distance to the router, I get a lot of connection drops, I have to switch Wifi off and use 4G to get a stable connection, compared to Xiaomi Mi A1 that I had before, the X4 is not that great, but I still recommend this phone, the build quality is amazing and great camera, the Mi A1 though, just the camera and screen let's it down, tried with GCam HDR+ port, pictures are not that great on the A1 and screen contrast is a bit low, but if you are on a budget, it's the phone to get for sure.
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- Front facing camera have fixed focus, and the minimum distance for a good focus is about 45cm from phone! Acceptable from 35cm and beyond. See attached photo.
- Original Motorola Camera app is beta and buggy by now. Can be very slow sometimes.
- Back Facing Camera has pretty low MP for me. As this doesn't have zoom lens, 12MP is too low to make any digital zoom. I am jumping from a Moto X Play with 21MP to the Moto X4 with 12MP. I got used to take pictures away and cropping it with digital zoom, keeping a descent quality. Now this resource is gone.
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Out of curiosity, what version of the OS are you running? The November update just came out, and it was supposed to fix a lot of issues with the Moto Camera.
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Out of curiosity, what version of the OS are you running? The November update just came out, and it was supposed to fix a lot of issues with the Moto Camera.
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No OS update yet. But received an update for camera via play store
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No OS update yet. But received an update for camera via play store
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My "Moto Camera 2" is version 7.0.66.6 updated on November 2nd. That was before I got the November Security Update that was supposed to fix some camera issues (firmware and back-end stuff, not APK issues).
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My "Moto Camera 2" is version 7.0.66.6 updated on November 2nd. That was before I got the November Security Update that was supposed to fix some camera issues (firmware and back-end stuff, not APK issues).
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Thanks for the info. My Moto camera has the same version.
No OS update:
Android version 7.1.1
NPW26.4
Security update: 2017, September, 01
Much better 4G reception than my old phone
Cell reception is bad on this phone it drains my battery fast on 4G. The only solution I have for my phone is to switch to 3g it seems to work I guess.
generally every single Motorola smartphone has always been excellent compared to Samsung, apple, and lg. I always got a bar or 2 more than most devices ive had. I usually still have service even when coworker next to me keeps getting into no service spots with sprint. from what I understand is the x4 has two separate partitions. one with what your using, then when you get updates it will download and install into system b, and once restart you reboot the x4 reboots into system b. this way if their is something wrong with the update you don't restart and either get bootloops or brick. people have had that issue in the past. honestly I was disappointed with the x4. the old moto x, moto x2, and moto x pure were quite superb with decent specs and the moto assistant was 3 times more responsive and helpful than the alexa bull****. of course that was when google had acquired Motorola. now im kind of thinking of trying the one plus 6 or waiting for the pixel 3. I extremely hated Samsung touchwiz, htc sense ui, and didn't really like lg roms. but seeing oneplus 6 unboxing it seems to be near clean stock android. may have to give it a go
Rate this thread to express how you think the Huawei P20 Pro's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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This is my second Huawei and the WiFi strength is definitely lower than other phones. I found this a problem on my mate 10. Time will tell how much of a problem this is for me. It only happens when further away from router so won't affect anyone in a smaller house. Wil do some comparison s tomorrow with my HTc u11+ which I know has a better strength at distance.
Major issues!
I love the phone yet there a few major issues. WiFi signal is so poor that it constantly switches to data even when I am standing 1 meter from my router! I noticed that when I leave a place where I was connected to WiFi and the phone switches to data, when I am back it just won't connect to any WiFi. Besides GPS is a complete mess, it won't work with running apps for instance and WhatsApp quick-reply from the dropdown menu won't work at all. Any ideas/solutions?
No major issues here., In fact the range, signal and download speeds are much better compared to my previous Samsung.. my router is from Huawei as well so I guess they work nice together.
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Rate this thread to express how you think the Huawei P20 Pro's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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P20 pro model that I'm using was tested with 177Mbps upload speed, using speedtest app. This was in a public place, as my home connection is only 0.5Mbps for uploads. Google Photo cloud was effectively using only 70Mbps (not sure if Huawei or Google's fault). At home, the phone uploads images, but 4K video (even small 100MB files) don't even upload. One has to repeatedly press upload and restart Photos app to attempt to get video uploaded. So, either P20 pro or Google is currently creating a problem with 0.5Mbps upload lines. With an old Samsung S6, I could always upload automatically at home - it just took some time.
Signal strength appears good. No major issues so far, compared to cheaper Lenovo tablets and Archos type phones - which often cannot connect to WiFi without a perfect signal...
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I love the phone yet there a few major issues. WiFi signal is so poor that it constantly switches to data even when I am standing 1 meter from my router! I noticed that when I leave a place where I was connected to WiFi and the phone switches to data, when I am back it just won't connect to any WiFi. Besides GPS is a complete mess, it won't work with running apps for instance and WhatsApp quick-reply from the dropdown menu won't work at all. Any ideas/solutions?
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same here
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same here
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My WIFi performances are identical to other WiFi devices I own. GPS is probably better than my previous Samsung S7, both as lock-speed and as capability to keep it locked in bad situation (between very tall buildings, or very close to mountains
WiFi and hotspot working well. No issues .
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Wifi strong (Tmo) not problem with GPS. google maps loads fast.
I come from Galaxy S7 Edge with andrid 6.0.1.
So I tested wi-fi strenght and the difference between the 2 phones is great for Huawei P20 Pro.
With galaxy S7 my throughput was maximum 3-4mb/sec with the phone closely to the router. And 600-900kb/s far from router.
Huawei reach 10mb/s both closely and next router. Goes down to 2-3mb/s far from the router.
Great difference !
I actually have really strong wifi, coming from i7 that was spotty here and now I'm rocking great coverage
Extremely disappointed by my P20 Pro Wifi - when to a guest house, abroad over the last weekend - 3 nights - 2 days - I was unable to use the WiFi for some reason.
All other devices - laptop, iPhoneSE, Huawei Y3 and Xiomi Mi5 had no problem whatsoever, only on my P20 Pro I was getting all the time that "Internet is not available on this WiFi", and only seldomly it was available and I was able to browse some few minutes and then again - internet is becoming unavailable.
It drove me crazy!
I did try all tricks in the book - forget wifi, enable/disable wifi, WiFi+ enable/disable, phone reboot, clear phone cash even, set IP and DNS manually as per the settings I got from my laptop - still the same!
In the end I gave up, bought a big mobile data bundle and switched off the WiFi.
Attached a screenshot telling me I have to speak to the network admin.
Only thing I thought of but couldn't find the option is to set the WiFi to be 2.4 Ghz only, does someone know how that is done?
Back home - all is back to normal - both home and work WiFi is working fine.
Anybody with similar experience? Did you manage to resolve it? I was on the first Pie (and got an update yesterday).
I have had really good performance with the P20 Pro on my 5Ghz wifi network.
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I have the p20 lite and theres definitely a difference in signal strength between my phone and other phones put next to each other. The mobile network reception is lower, to a point where the other phones get good signal and I have none. Same with the WiFi. Is there a way to make the strength to receive better?
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Rate this thread to express how you think the Huawei P20 Pro's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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Interesting, I just got EMUI 10.0 for my P20 pro and ran a wifi benchmark. It seems like wifi is about 20% more efficient than with EMUI 9.1 for me.
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the HTC U12 Life come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).
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The taken pictures have a realy bad quality. There is a delay during Shot and next Shot and all moving objekts in normal light conditions are blurry.
I had never seen such a so bad camera on a HTC Phone.
I don't think that the camera is so bad, it is middle-class standard, but I am really disappointed with the HTC camera application. It has no option to set white balance and the pictures taken during artificial lights are really bad. I recommend using another camera app. On the other hand I really like the depth effect (focusing) but it is necessary to use original HTC camera app for it.
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I am guessing from the lack of interest in the posts for this phone that i should probably stay far away from this one lol.... Poor HTC.... They used to make such good phones...
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I am guessing from the lack of interest in the posts for this phone that i should probably stay far away from this one lol.... Poor HTC.... They used to make such good phones...
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Actually I just got mine and more than happy with it coming from HTC 10, specially for the price.
You get exactly what you pay for a mid ranger with awesome battery life. Camera isn't that good but isn't bad either.
I'm tired of spending big bucks for phones where 80% of the gimmicks I don't even use.
Thats Great!
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Actually I just got mine and more than happy with it coming from HTC 10, specially for the price.
You get exactly what you pay for a mid ranger with awesome battery life. Camera isn't that good but isn't bad either.
I'm tired of spending big bucks for phones where 80% of the gimmicks I don't even use.
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Do you mind me asking what country you use it in?
I'm in the US and was not sure about the bands if it would work well with AT&T. I am looking for something with GREAT battery life. My Galaxy S9 is sort of meh at best when it comes to battery life and I have it currently running at mid-range battery conservation mode. Limiting the processor, dimming the screen, having it set to 720p, etc. I do get a TON of work emails on it, as well as teams messages and keep bluetooth on typically for my smartwatch so some of it is probably self-inflicted.
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Do you mind me asking what country you use it in?
I'm in the US and was not sure about the bands if it would work well with AT&T. I am looking for something with GREAT battery life. My Galaxy S9 is sort of meh at best when it comes to battery life and I have it currently running at mid-range battery conservation mode. Limiting the processor, dimming the screen, having it set to 720p, etc. I do get a TON of work emails on it, as well as teams messages and keep bluetooth on typically for my smartwatch so some of it is probably self-inflicted.
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Australia here. Not sure about the bands either however is working fantastic for me. So far the battery life is impressive, its quick and responsive but as aforementioned the camera is average but I think it has more to do with the software than anything.
I got the phone from Toby Deals for $255 AUD delivered which is a steal.
Rate this thread to express how you think the 's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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I wish the wifi will not end up like my mate 9 problem.
Unable to access to internet during peak hour (9PM - 1AM) everday for 2.4G network - on all routers no matter how I change the channel......
Seems pretty good to be honest. Can't really fault it, it works.
5ghz wifi doesn't work for me.
It finds those networks but just won't connect.
I've heard it from other people as well.
got mine yesterday. WiFi is on my girlsfriends S9+ definetly better. Just gotta the half on strenght with the Mate 20 Pro
5ghz wireless AC working well.
I noticed that it wouldn't connect to any WiFi that was previously saved when restoring from Google backup... I had to forget and add them again
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5ghz wireless AC working well.
I noticed that it wouldn't connect to any WiFi that was previously saved when restoring from Google backup... I had to forget and add them again
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That's pretty good Imho. I see people complaining that this speed isn't enough and It should be faster. Your phone's not a PC downloading 50gb files. You barely browse and watch video. Heck. 4k only needs 25-30mbps and 1080 is 10mbps.
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That's pretty good Imho. I see people complaining that this speed isn't enough and It should be faster. Your phone's not a PC downloading 50gb files. You barely browse and watch video. Heck. 4k only needs 25-30mbps and 1080 is 10mbps.
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Its hitting the cap of my power line network, it can probably do more lol. Yeah max is stream a 1080p video whole downloading a Spotify album. Max 30mbps throughput at one time for real usage.
Anyone here know what the TRP is for the Huawei Mate 20 Pro? https://www.signalbooster.com/blogs/news/does-smartphone-make-and-model-impact-cellular-signal
Recent tests by Ireland's communications regulator (COMREG) have shown that the Samsung Galaxy S8 has incredible reception, which is measured in TRP (Total Radiated Power). On the GSM network's 1800 band, the Galaxy S8 weighed in at 23.6 TRP (also shown as "dBm"), while the iPhone 7 only had 16.6 TRP, and the Pixel had 21.0 TRP. This means that Samsung cell phones have the strongest antenna capability. We don't exactly know how or why - maybe just due to how they design their smartphones.
It isn't hitting the cap of my internetconnection like my Samsung note 8 did, but somewhere around 70% of the max speeds. Still speedtest around 350/350Mbps up and down, where the note got 630. But not complaining, the reception is good and consistent.
For a really crude, non quantifiable or scientific test I put my Mate 20 Pro side by side with my work S10e to see how 5GHz wifi and performance differs. Same connection etc. Both phones have 6Gb RAM. On small stuff for instance, the M20P updates apps way faster than the S10e from Google Play. I give the S10e a headstart and the Mate 20 P still beats it. This is a regular occurence. It looks like not only does it download the data faster but it installs it faster too.
Different story on a really large update, for instance maps for TomTom, the two phones were pretty much the same. Maybe a thing with speed getting the data off the TomTom server? Or the work wifi router I'm connected to balances the throughput with a large download? Not sure. The Mate did seem to accelerate the download to a good lead initially but then the S10e caught up later. The update for the Mate was 100mb larger and finished installing maybe 30 seconds behind. 1.1Gb for S10e and 1.2Gb for the Mate 20P.