Many have criticized Apple for choosing the “much slower,” but much less power-hungry EDGE (2.5G) over the supposedly faster, but battery-draining UMTS (3G). In a test conducted by the German-language iPhone Infoblog, WLAN on both phones is deactivated.
The iPhone, thanks to a faster processor and the superior Webkit-based Safari Web browser, is in the same league with the Nokia E61i when loading websites.
For example, the Die Zeit website loaded fully in 76 seconds vs. 79 seconds for the Nokia. The Nokia loaded eBay fully in 26 seconds vs. 30 seconds for iPhone. ApplePhoneInfo tested their own site and the iPhone loaded it in 0:31 vs. the Nokia’s 0:27.
The text and voiceover is in German, but the video speaks volumes in any language:
Direct link to the video via YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzETYbGEqgo
ApplePhoneInfo’s full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Markim” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: As always: iPhone users, while on EDGE, please use our RSS feed instead of our home page while we debate whether we should be redesigning our Web pages for a device that offers a full Web browser and purports to surf the real Web or until Apple releases a 3G iPhone, whichever comes first.
I thought Nokias used the rendering engine that Safari’s developers released back to the open-source community? KHTML or something? No?
@ TowerTone
“I think Youtube has a 20 minute time limit on videos. Probably why they didn’t do the test on MDN”
Ha! Ha! Ha! That’s a gd one. 😀
“I think YouTube has a 20 minute time limit on videos. Probably why they didn’t do the test on MDN.”
LMFAO!
I use EDGE on my iPhone at work all the time, and I’m pleased. Sure, I’d rather be using Wifi, but the experience is good.
Have had our iPhone since 29 June and couldn’t be happier with it.
forget about the speed, give me 32GB of storage!
Good one!!
I was going to make a similar crack, but you beat me to it…
Thats why when you see ads for these phones all you see or more like hear is them yammering. Talk talk talk about how fast it is, it has touch, it has music, it has this and that. Yet they never show it like an iPhone comercial. Why? Because they would be laughed at once people see how clumsy and archaic their phone system operates.
Sorry, MDN. I was just the set up guy….
HA!
Glad I didn’t get a iPhone, my PowerMac G5 loads web pages in mere seconds instead of minutes.
It’s practically worthless.
“…while we debate whether we should be redesigning our Web pages…”
You could start by redesigning them so that load times aren’t rubbish even on broadband. Sheesh.
I don’t mind the EDGE speeds on the iPhone, except when it comes to checking my email. For some reason, that operation takes an unbelievably long time esp. compared to wifi, although I must admit trying to load an MDN page in iPhone-Safari makes me give up about 90% of the time, esp. as it tries to figure out the hidden ad tracking page or whatever that is.
Come on, MDN – fix it for us would you?
@@TowerTone – that was really funny! good one :O
“sheesh the layout on the Nokia looks crap, who builds the software?”
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This is probably why Nokia’s new phones use WebKit
Look how the iphone screen brightness outplays the nokio screen!
Ohh how nice, first MDN rants about all relevant things that was (purposely) left out in the “Wired ridiculously picks Microsoft Zune 80 over Apple’s 80GB iPod classic” article..and now they very smoothly “forgets” to mention that had this been a Nokia N95 vs. iPhone test with HSDPA/W-CDMA speeds there would have been no comparison to speak of.
How low, even for MDN..
The http://www.zeit.de site loaded in 30 seconds on my ancient Blackberry 8700g on T-Mobile in NYC. Same happens when I “Go To” MacDailyNews, it’s SO much faster on the Blackberry that I’ve held off getting an iPhone.
Not surprising considering the iPhones processor is clocked at twice the E61s. And as someone else mentioned the difference in network speeds isn’t so great.
Also the E61 browser is based on WebKit as well, so the mac fanbois can stop beating the dead horse already.
And if you hadn’t noticed the E61i is loading the Flash content on the pages and the iPhone isn’t.
During the test he mentions that he did not include the amount of time it would take to type a Web address on each phone, but he believes that it is faster on an iPhone. Also, he finishes by saying, basically, “Everyone can decide for himself which rendering looks better.”
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