Android handsets crash far more regularly than iPhones, a new study by the Blanco Technology Group claims.
Measuring the number of failures of Android phones and iPhones during the first three months of 2016, devices running Google’s mobile platform were found to have a failure rate of 44 percent, compared to 25 percent for the iPhone.
Despite their status as high-end Android handsets, Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S5 were found to be the most common Android phones to suffer from system crashes, while on the Apple side the phones most likely to crash were the iPhone 6 and 5s.
“Android’s failure rate was especially high for devices in Asia, which accounted for 55% of Android device crashes globally, up slightly from 50% in Q4 2015,” reads a Business Insider report on the subject, adding that, “This was followed by Europe with 35% and North America with 27%.”
Not only were Android handsets found to be more likely to crash by a large margin, but they were also found to feature a greater number of unstable apps. In fact, “crashing apps” were discovered on almost three-quarters of Android phones, with communication and social media apps being the most likely to cause problems.
Have you experienced crashes on your handset? Let us know in the comments below.
Source: Business Insider
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
16 responses to “Android phones crash at almost twice the rate of iPhones”
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Shouldn’t surprise anyone, Android has a terrible problem with jenk and slowdown unless you do ongoing maintenance. It’s not worth it.
Don’t need to do any of that on iOS.
Never. But I am an iPhone person.
I notice the two phones mentionedn name are both older models now. Also same how crashes are more common in Asia where there is a proliferation of low end handsets and that number goes down on Europe and America where more high end handsets are likely to be present. But you know don’t mention any of that
I can’t think of the last time I had a crash on my iPhone 6 Plus. Its very reliable. This has been true of all my iPhones though, even going back to my original iPhone in 2007. I’d hesitate to say iPhones are problem free, but they are way closer than Android phones. The reason is simple. Apple optimizes the OS to run on specific hardware, and app developers are required to conform to the same guidelines. Android is like Windows. One OS for a ton of different pieces of hardware and app versions.
cult as a word has the elements of bigotry, so this article is biased. I was iPhone user , like so many of friends I switched to Android. I got Samsung S6 edge+, super fast, not crashing at all, very sophisticated I’m very happy with it, this is my second Android. Why don’t you spill the beans on what’s going on iphone, is it perfect, zero issue??? Well everyone knows iPhone (yaaawn!!) is for grannies and iPhone has the monopoly on everything! IPhone sucks!
No, because cults will take anybody. Bigots won’t. Now, your argument fails because you didn’t say why you hate iPhone and Apple. Other than you think it is a cult, which in and of it self is not an argument.
No one has ever claimed they are perfect.
Maybe you should actually read articles before commenting. This article does mention the iPhone models that crash the most and the research was done by Blanco Technology Group, not Cult of Mac.
so you are saying cheap phones have bad performance because they are made with cheap parts. which doesn’t have anything to do with android.
That’s why the title of the article is Android PHONES are most prone to crashing. And after all, there can’t be Android without phones for it to be installed on.
I wonder if you’ve read the article.
“Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S5 were found to be the most common Android phones to suffer from system crashes”
Not exactly cheap phones.
ummmm Androids way out sell iPhone, do the math people…
And what does sales numbers have to do with this? It’s the percentage of phones that crash running each OS, not the number of phones.
Bullshit.. I got android phone (moto x play) never crashed from the day I purchased.. It’s rooted, over clocked, xposed firmware, custom os (6.0.1) & bloatware free.. Stop comparing with cheap quality samsung..
Hi. You must be the “it hasn’t happened to me so everyone else must be lying” person.
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bla bla bla…. I had my Samsung S6 edge since last December… I only turn it off when I go to the cinema… It has never crashed down.