Testing the DC vs other phones

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I've had my charge for 6 days and decided to test it against the HTC sensation in the local T-Mobile store. This is my first smartphone and I chose the charge and Verizon's unlimited data last week over the less expensive T-Mobile plans.

I did a speed test on each phone: 12mb down on mine (lte) and 4 mg down on the sensation (their hspa+ "4g") I couldn't believe it when the sensation loaded up every webpage I went to faster than my charge. I used multiple browsers including opera and dolphin and the HTC was always finished loading faster.

Is the charge not utilizing the speed of lte in web browsing?

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Sensation has a dual-core processor which will render web pages faster than the single core Charge. Not an issue of data speed, but of cpu power.

So are you saying that the speed of LTE doesn't matter when browsing the web with the charge because it's limited by it's own hardware? I'm trying to decide if I'd be better off paying a lower monthly fee and getting by with 4MB/sec on T-Mobile.

4mb for mobile Internet is not exactly slow its good enough for pretty much anything since you can't really multitask. Unless you need to be constantly downloading something in the background.

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Originally Posted by droy.cms

So are you saying that the speed of LTE doesn't matter when browsing the web with the charge because it's limited by it's own hardware? I'm trying to decide if I'd be better off paying a lower monthly fee and getting by with 4MB/sec on T-Mobile.

I would say the content of the page makes a large difference in loading speeds as well. A phone with better CPU will render pages with a lot of smaller file size images faster but might lag behind an LTE phone with a slower CPU on pages that have large file size assets to load.

I wouldn't say your LTE is going to go unused. I also wouldn't write off going to T-Mo for the Sensation if the coverage is good for you and you don't come to the Midwest too often =p Can't go too wrong either way, really. Unless you plan on using the hell out of Verizon's unlimited data.

One thing I learned by going to the Charge is the web browsing speed is often CPU bound rather than bandwidth bound. I would have guessed that 3G was the bottleneck, but now I see a lot of complex webpages are limited by CPU power.