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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com it I know you're wondering the samsung epic 4g is super fast but is it faster than the google nexus one let's go take a look so how fast is the samsung epic 4g compared to the google nexus one let's go ahead and run the quadrant standard full benchmark test and find out so we tap those at the same time already the samsung is off to a quicker start then the android running next to it which is the google nexus one but i need to come clean this of course is running android 2.1 the nexus one on the other hand is not only running android 2.2 which is also known as froyo but it's also running a custom mod called cyanogenmod rom and it has a custom kernel so it's got a lot of speed advantages already in its favor but let's just let the two a two benchmarks run side by side and see how they turn out one thing that I should mention is they both look very good on screen the frames per second it's all looking really nice all the graphics are really really smooth and it's good to go but you'll notice the Samsung finished first and its ranking up here around nine hundred and forty points over here on the android google nexus one it took longer to finish but when we look at it it's 12 11 which is quite a bit more than the samsung now you'll notice over here nexus one to point two plus is a benchmark above that these are both daily use phones I use them all the time we've got lots of apps on them it's just loaded so what I want to do is now see if we can boost the performance of this this sprint epic 4g and get it any faster but before we do that that's that's a topic for another video before we do that what I want to do is show you another measure of speed and I think you'll really be impressed with this measure so let me get that set up ok the next measure of speed for these phones is network speed so I've turned off Wi-Fi so we're not going over my my wireless access point and we're going over the fastest network connection that the phone has it at this location now that's kind of important because this is under 3g umbrella not the sprint WiMAX 4G ok we'll do that test at another time over here we've got an H that means we're under the t mobile HSPA not hspa+ just HSPA umbrella and I've got full bars on both so we're good next thing we need to do is make sure that and this is the FCC mobile broadband test it's free and it's in the market so you can test this yourself I've set them both to the same thing we're reporting in kilobits per second kilobits per second and we're connecting to the same server which is in orem utah now for some reason the Samsung over here thinks that it's 1,300 miles away and that the the nexus one thinks that it's only 92.7 for miles away this number is more accurate but we're not going to worry too much about that so we're going to go back we're done there all that was in the settings tab now we're going to go over to test both of these and I'm going to try and start them at the same time we'll begin test first thing it does is it starts with a download the Samsung was quicker to get started but I think you can really easily tell that the nexus one running the Korean radio I might add is up at 2.3 almost 2.4 megabit per second whereas the Samsung is at one point two and a half megabit per second upload speeds were a little bit different as well and I talked about this in my my hardware review my actually I think it was my software review of this fall over here the latency of this phone is really really high i mean 377 milliseconds that's quite a bit over here 183 so let's not take the first test let's go ahead and run it again see what we get started the Samsung a little bit earlier this time now you want to run these tests through three four five times before you get a really really good benchmark and this test isn't going to be valid anymore because it went out it got a little bit of a 4g signal and connected to that for a minute and then switch back to 3g which is why we have the lower speed so let's go ahead and run that again while that's running again at 2.4 megabit per second and almost 400 kilobits up so that's really pretty good the latency here is good and that's kind of why I like t-mobile if we ever get a really good VoIP client for voice over IP on our mobile phones latency is really important the lower the latency the better over on sprint that's more of a problem because they're Layton sees have always been 300 to 600 milliseconds I don't know why but that's just a little bit too much lag when you're talking about voice communications but again here we didn't have all that great and I didn't see it while I was talking switch into 4G and back it might have but even still as far as 3G phones go nexus one wins hands down but as soon as I can get back under a 4g bubble which I might have to do on location the Sprint just blows everything away it's amazing how ridiculously fast it is but now let's go and check this same test with Wi-Fi connected to the same wireless access point okay so for the Wi-Fi test I have an 802 11 n buffalo wireless router connected to comcast cable i would say probably 20 feet away as you can see I've got full bars over here on this one and bordering full or one bar less than full over here so let's go ahead and start these at the same time now right before this test I repo'd it rebooted both phones to make sure that I got a really good thorough test one other thing that I need to note the samsung has 802 11 n built-in so as soon as you turn it on hook up to Wi-Fi if you're on an 802 11 and access point you are golden on this other side however the nexus one has a chip that's capable of 802 11 n but doesn't come with 802 11 n as far as i know with any of the stock roms cyanogenmod rom which again this is running enables that end so i get extra speeds out of it now down here we look 40 100 ish kilobits per second versus 3700 kilobits per second about half a megabit up then millisecond latency times that are about the same so as far as Wi-Fi speeds go they're pretty much the same i mean that's that's margin of error right there that could be internet congestion or who knows what but the the nexus one has been just marginally faster in most of these tests and you can see now that the epic 4g just leapfrogged that but even still for megabit per second that's not bad at all I'd kind of hoped for a little bit more than that with 802 11 n but it's still a phone it's still really really fast for a phone so looking at both of those pretty good now let's go to just general you I I'm going to go home on both of them and I've tried to set this up pretty much the same on both now not identically but pretty much the same and if we swipe back and forth here which is really hard to do with my left hand because I'm not left-handed you can see it's pretty responsive on both of them even the scrollable widgets on both and I've got more of them on the end the nexus one being displayed then on the epic they're both pretty good going in to the app drawer not an equal number of apps so that's why you've got a little bit time difference but they're still very fast very responsive phones so all in all pretty good now what I really want to do nor an upcoming video is to apply what's called a lag fix to the sprint epic 4g that might explain some of the lag that you guys have been reporting in not being able to multitask as well as you'd like and and other similar stuff where you just get unexpected hangs I think that's also why these buttons down on the bottom arm is responsive as I'd like them to be so what we're going to do and I'll just give you a teaser into that video Sprint is using basically a fat style allocation table whereas the Nexus One is using your Linux partition types the linux stuff is a lot faster and well since the android OS is linux based it makes sense to use linux why they used a fat I don't know and I'm going to have to look up exactly what the name of it is RFS or something but it's their own special journaling system which journaling comes with the Linux file allocation tables and and partition types if you will and is getting really really technical and in depth and I didn't mean to do that in this video but just to finish it off they've applied some of the Linux style journaling to the typical das fat style allocation tables and a lot of developers out there think that that's causing some lag because the the file system is really not optimized for multitasking it's really not optimized for the Android environment so they've come up with some neat tax and I'll go in to show you how to do that in a upcoming video but looking back here at the speed differences between the epic 4g and the google nexus one with a custom rom on it they're really really impressive in a future video like i mentioned i'll show you the differences between 4g and 3g and i think you'll be really impressed with the speed of the sprint 4g network wish it were in more places so again speed comparisons between the epic 4g and the google nexus one for pocketnow.com I'm Joe leave I give this video a thumbs up if you'd like to see more speed comparisons and if you have not yet subscribed to our video channel now is the time to do that so you don't miss out on some of those videos that I told you were up and coming