Samsung announces fun at the Apple Genius Bar and touches the faster speeds of Galaxy S9 LTE

Samsung returns to a familiar advertising tactic in its latest Galaxy S9 video – making fun of Apple. Samsung's new "Ingenius: Speed" ad this afterno is making fun of the Genius Bar while touting Samsung's faster download speeds.

In the video, a customer of the bar "Ingenius" that looks like an Apple Store questis about the download speeds of the iPhone X compared to the speeds of the Galaxy S9, leaving it behind. Retail employee Apple unable to answer.

Customer: The iPhone X does not have the fastest download speeds.

Genius: It's faster than the iPhone 8.

Client: But download speeds are not faster than the Galaxy S9. I thought it was the "smartphe of the future".

Genius: Hum …

Samsung's new video, and its Galaxy S9 site, extols its LTE performance Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence Data from February to April 2018. Ookla, for those who are unfamiliar, uses test results Real speed and LTE speeds from a variety of devices.

In Ookla's spring speed tests, the Galaxy S9, equipped with Qualcomm's X20 LTE chip, was 37% faster than the iPhone X and 43% faster than the iPhone. iPhone 8, average.

The iPhone X is equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdrag X16 chip or Intel's LTE XMM7480 chip, depending the model, which indeed has theoretical maximum download speeds lower than those of the X20. While the Galaxy S9 and S9 + are faster than current iPhones in terms of download speed, rumors suggest that Apple is making improvements …