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what's up guys David here foam buff and in this video we're gonna be doing a speed comparison test between the play edition of the galaxy s4 which runs on pure stock Android just like on Nexus devices and the regular version of the galaxy s4 which runs on Samsung's TouchWiz modified version of the OS now before we begin I want to let you guys know that I've been wanting to do a speed test like this for a really long time I mean almost every time I've tested an Android phone I've wondered to myself whether or not the phone would be faster if it's running on stock Android compared to a manufacturer skinned I've always felt like stock Android was a little bit faster or just a little less laggy than manufactured UIs and now for the first time ever we can actually put that idea to the test with identical phones with identical hardware with the only difference being the official version of their software so in the boot up test you can see the Play edition of the galaxy s4 on the left side shows us the lockscreen first we'll go ahead and unlock it and just after the TouchWiz version loads up so for the first test you have to give the nod to the Play edition so the next test we run here is the application speed test note that both of these phones have actually been factory reset with just a couple of apps installed for the purpose of this video so first app will test here is Flixter and you can see pretty much identical load of times considering that they have identical specs not all that surprising tapping on the listing you see maybe a little bit faster on the Play edition tapping play trailer and we see at first on the samsung version so a little bit of mixed results pretty much had to call that one a tie next up we'll test here is going to be score centered so tap them at the same time and once again you see the content loaded up maybe a split second faster on the Play edition of the s4 same thing happened with the Flickr app so we'll tap on videos and see if there's a recurring theme going on so let's hop on this video here at the same time and yeah the video loaded up faster on the TouchWiz version just like a date with Flixter so seems like for whatever reason videos are a little bit faster on the TouchWiz version and when it comes to loading up content at least within apps seems to be a little bit faster on the Play edition we'll go ahead and load up this article just so we could be sure and seems to be taking a little bit longer than usual but yeah so there you go you can see that the content did little first on the Play edition and you know video loads up first on the TouchWiz version so again mixed results so overall I have to say it's a tie so with the app speed tests out of the way let's go ahead and run some good old-fashioned benchmarks so the first benchmark we're going to be running here is going to be Geekbench - and as you can see the Play edition of the galaxy s4 scored a 3243 which is just slightly higher than the 3214 scored on the TouchWiz version so very very close just like this pretty much this whole test has been but the slight edge here does go to the Play edition and the next benchmark we're going to be running is gonna be in tune - and as you can see here the Play edition finished first with a score of twenty-five thousand two hundred and twenty eight which is again just slightly higher than the twenty-five thousand and ninety four on the TouchWiz version so close once again but the edge does go to the Play edition which has sort of been the theme so far okay so before we wrap up this video let's go ahead and do a quick browser test here so the browser we're going to be using is Google Chrome on both phones so that way it's nice and fair clear out the browsing history and cache on both and they're connected in the same Wi-Fi network so screen as fair as possible so the first website we're going to be testing is of course fumble comm and so far they look like they're neck-and-neck I mean really really close we're seeing the content a little bit faster on the Play edition once again and that one is really close you guys could be the judge of that one I'll go ahead and tap on this article here and hopefully we get some more separation between the two and so this time the status bar says that the play Edition is done significantly faster than the TouchWiz version but honestly they both look like they're done loading so again it was really close if I have to give the edge it's going to be of course to the Play edition but let's go ahead and try another website the next site we're going to be testing is the verge so we're gonna go to the mobile site first here and so far it looks like the TouchWiz version is actually loading it up faster so we'll go ahead and tap on this article here and that one I don't think you get closer to the side than that one scrolling I'm not necessarily smooth I mean they're smooth but there's some white blank space there on both of them so that was pretty much at I go into the full site we're seeing the content first on the TouchWiz version but it looks like the content finished loading up first on the plate Asian so honestly I mean I think it's just too close to call but that's pretty much how it's been throughout this whole entire speedtest I mean in one area the play addition is faster and in another the TouchWiz version is faster and overall you're going to get a very similar experience in terms of speed with either of these two devices but I will say that the play edition of the s4 seems to offer a more consistent speed experience compared to the TouchWiz version not only because of what we saw on this test here but with my personal experience with these two devices I have noticed a bit of lag from time to time on my galaxy s4 with TouchWiz which is kind of hard to rub create in a video but definitely something worth noting but that's pretty much it for me in this video if you found it helpful please give it a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe to the channel for more mobile technology videos just like this thank you for watching