46 PCWorld JANUARY 2020REVIEWS iPHONE 11 VS ANDROID’S BEST
Speaking of big, the OnePlus 7T’s Warp
Charge 30T is easily the biggest of the bunch,
taking up the better of two outlets when
plugged in—and you’ll be using it every day,
because the OnePlus 7T is the only phone
here that lacks wireless charging. The other
three phones all offer it, though the top
speeds vary slightly:
Galaxy S10+: 12W
Pixel 4 XL: 11W
iPhone 11: 7.5W
Ironically, the iPhone 11 wirelessly charges
faster than it does with its bundled charger.
Some people might scoff at wireless charging
as a reason to buy a phone, but I’d have a
hard time without it. So the OnePlus 7T loses
major convenience points, even with the
stellar Warp Charge.
Winner: Galaxy S10+.PERFORMANCE
All of the phones include very fast and very
efficient processors. Obviously the iPhone
uses Apple’s silicon, while the Android
phones are powered by Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon chipset.
Both the Galaxy S10+ and the Pixel 4XL
use the Snapdragon 855 processor, while the
OnePlus 7T sports the newer Snapdragon
855+. It would take a serious user with
equally serious benchmarks to discern any
difference, but OnePlus buyers can boast that
they have the technically faster Android phone.
Something’s not quite right with thePixel 4. It should be the fastest of the
bunch, with the purest Android skin and
Google’s hardware-software integration,
but in test after test it performed slower
than the others. It’s gotten worse since I
wrote my review. Apps hang (including
Google’s own utilities), system features lag,
and even scrolling feels sluggish at times
with Smooth Display turned on. It’s the only
phone where I need regular restarts to keep
things humming. I can only hope the
performance issues will be fixed with an
update. Just check out these BrowserBench
Speedometer scores, which measure the
responsiveness of web apps:
iPhone 11: 153
OnePlus 7T: 69.1
Galaxy S10+: 53.8
Pixel 4 XL: 34
I ran this test several times on the Pixel
4 using Google’s own Chrome browser,
and it never topped 35. Meanwhile, the
A13 Bionic chip in the iPhone 11 is on
another level—faster than its predecessor
and the fastest of the bunch here,
including in real-world results. Even the
fastest Android UI here feels sticky when
compared to the iPhone 11, and that’s
without a 120Hz ProMotion display.
The harmony Apple creates between
the silicon and software is second to none,
as evidenced by these Geekbench
benchmark scores (where once again the
Pixel 4 seriously lags):