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.]
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