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I compare soundfonts of these devices:
- Android 2.3 and 5.1 (HTC Desire S and Xperia Z3)
- Nintendo DS running Moonshell
- Windows 8.0
- Yamaha PSR E-303 keyboard
- An old phone, Sony Ericsson T630

with a short MIDI. I recorded everything except T630 directly through the audio output.

=== Results: ======

1. The original song | Splattack by Nintendo

2. Custom Android soundfont | App: MIDI Voyager
Sounds very realistic and has awesome drums.

3. Built-in soundfont of Moonshell | Homebrew DS
It has great guitar samples, even with DS limitations.

4. Yamaha PSR E-303 and its built-in soundfont
This one has intentionally reduced midtones
and it sounds great from the keyboard's speakers.

5. Built-in Windows soundfont
It sounds pretty flat and it's used too much, especially here.
Made by Roland in 1996, in Windows since Win98.

6. Soundfont in Sony Ericsson T630
The bass is barely audible because the phone doesn't
have a normal headphone output. I had to record
the phone's mono speaker with a mic next to it.

7. Android's built-in soundfont
This one sounds like it's made for classical music.
Everything has too much reverb, too.
It's same in Android 2.3 Gingerbread and 5.1 Lollipop.

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Used programs:
MidiTrail for MIDI visualization on Windows
MIDI Voyager for visualization on Android
FL Studio 11 for making the Midi