Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025)
September 18, 2025
TL;DR: If you want broadly representative Android hardware for real-world web performance testing in 2025, buy a Samsung Galaxy A15 5G (SM-A156x) (low-tier) and a Samsung Galaxy A54 5G (SM-A546x) (mid-tier). Both are mass-market, widely ranged across regions, have multi-year software support, and map well to Chrome DevTools’ Low- and Mid-tier presets.
Source: Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025) – CSS Wizardry
As folks like Alex Russell have been trying to get us to see for years, we (with our relatively up-to-date iPhones and recent MacBook Pros) are not by any means typical of the sort of real-world users set up.
When testing the performance of our sites, keeping the older or less top-specced devices in mind is important.
But what does that mean in 2025? Here, Harry Roberts investigates. per
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