The actual median is a slower, older, cheaper phone.Most people receive phones via their carrier, and the devices vary greatly over demographics and geography.Īfter conducting this research, Alex arrived at the Motorola G4 - which is statistically quite above average. It’s best to choose a device on that chipset. These Quad-core CPUs are everywhere and also come with hardly any cache. There are billions of Android devices in the wild that are using the Qualcomm 28nm A53 Chipset.Sometimes they’re fast and occasionally slow (A57 vs A53 Chipsets). The Nexus 5X wasn’t an option due to thermal instability.The device would need to be slightly ahead of the 2016 average, making it a strong candidate to purchase as a test device.This device needed to be globally available, reasonably affordable, have minimal bloatware, and thus, a low barrier to entry.The criteria for such a device are as follows: There’s some subtlety in testing on the suitable devices, but thankfully Alex Russell was kind enough to share his 2016 research, in which he did some detective work to find a single mobile device that best-represented devices in the wild could be purchased today and would make for a trustworthy test phone in the years ahead. Test using realistic average network conditions for a given market.Test in all major browsers for a given market.Test using real hardware (and automate your testing).How on earth are we meant to test all these and understand their quirks intimately? Such a wide range of devices in the market leaves plenty of web developers with a sickly feeling in their stomachs. What I find striking about these statistics is the tremendous number of devices and the fact that I’d never heard of a handful of these vendors-who sell more than 200M devices in just three months.
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