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Video speed test: 2.5G EDGE iPhone vs. mock 3G HSDPA iPhone
One Apple iPhone owner has posted to YouTube a video shootout that pits an iPhone running on a 2.5G EDGE network against one rigged with 3G HSDPA access in a simulated speed test.The mock 3G iPhone was connected via WiFi to an iMac whose internet connection was supplied with a HSDPA modem and then shared, while the traditional 2.5G iPhone was run on a standard overseas EDGE wireless network.
Based on the test results, which are largely theoretical given fluctuations in mobile wireless speeds from region to region and provider to provider, the 3G iPhone loaded the same web page as the 2.5G iPhone in nearly half the time.
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Originally Posted by digitalclips 
I was hoping for even faster ....
I was hoping for even faster ....
I'll point and laugh at those who suggested the iPhone was fine without 3G.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrochester
I'll point and laugh at those who suggested the iPhone was fine without 3G.
I'll point and laugh at those who suggested the iPhone was fine without 3G.
Mine's fine without G3. You do know it has Wifi right?
Quote:
Originally Posted by digitalclips
I was hoping for even faster ....
I was hoping for even faster ....
Many things will be much faster - certainly things like youtube, email sending and receiving, song purchases over 3G and the like will benefit much more than web page loading. Plus web page loading will be better than this, because the 3G iphone will not have such a complicated "modem"
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Originally Posted by mydo
Mine's fine without G3. You do know it has Wifi right?
Mine's fine without G3. You do know it has Wifi right?
You have a G3 iPhone? I thought they made the move to Intel?
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Originally Posted by mrochester
I'll point and laugh at those who suggested the iPhone was fine without 3G.
I'll point and laugh at those who suggested the iPhone was fine without 3G.
But at what cost? For example, battery life. Will it be a problem? Is the attached article still relevant?
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3036
the speed difference is going to be small because the phones processor and memory also plays a role in displaying that page to you. the real noticeable difference with edge/3g will be when you tether your phone to your computer... which you can't do
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
One Apple iPhone owner has posted to YouTube a video shootout that pits an iPhone running on a 2.5G EDGE network against one rigged with 3G HSDPA access in a simulated speed test.
The mock 3G iPhone was connected via WiFi to an iMac whose internet connection was supplied with a HSDPA modem and then shared, while the traditional 2.5G iPhone was run on a standard overseas EDGE wireless network.
Based on the test results, which are largely theoretical given fluctuations in mobile wireless speeds from region to region and provider to provider, the 3G iPhone loaded the same web page as the 2.5G iPhone in nearly half the time.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
One Apple iPhone owner has posted to YouTube a video shootout that pits an iPhone running on a 2.5G EDGE network against one rigged with 3G HSDPA access in a simulated speed test.
The mock 3G iPhone was connected via WiFi to an iMac whose internet connection was supplied with a HSDPA modem and then shared, while the traditional 2.5G iPhone was run on a standard overseas EDGE wireless network.
Based on the test results, which are largely theoretical given fluctuations in mobile wireless speeds from region to region and provider to provider, the 3G iPhone loaded the same web page as the 2.5G iPhone in nearly half the time.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
I'm confused about how this largely theoretical test tells us anything at all about how a real 3G iPhone would compare to today's model.
The WiFi intermediary step kills some of the latency performance gains (isn't avg initial response for EDGE ~300ms vs ~80ms for 3G ?), but the test still shows us what we kind of knew: it's much faster.
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Originally Posted by chadisawesome
the speed difference is going to be small because the phones processor and memory also plays a role in displaying that page to you.
the speed difference is going to be small because the phones processor and memory also plays a role in displaying that page to you.
LOL?
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One Apple iPhone owner has posted to YouTube a video shootout that pits an iPhone running on a 2.5G EDGE network against one rigged with 3G HSDPA access in a simulated speed test.
The mock 3G iPhone was connected via WiFi to an iMac whose internet connection was supplied with a HSDPA modem and then shared, while the traditional 2.5G iPhone was run on a standard overseas EDGE wireless network.
Based on the test results, which are largely theoretical given fluctuations in mobile wireless speeds from region to region and provider to provider, the 3G iPhone loaded the same web page as the 2.5G iPhone in nearly half the time.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
I was hoping for even faster ....