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EDGE vs 3G Shootout Video

Tuesday December 11, 2007 12:43 am PST by Arnold Kim
A video and blog post at AppleiPhoneInfo.de (German) pits the Apple iPhone against a Nokia E61i in web page load speeds. The iPhone, of course, uses the EDGE (2.5g) network while the Nokia uses a faster UMTS (3g) network.

Despite the network differences, the website load times compared between the two were not that different, demonstrating that the iPhone's rendering capabilities far exceeded the Nokias.



Indeed, in my own experience, in moving from the Treo 700p (EVDO) to iPhone (EDGE), I found general web browsing on the iPhone to be a subjectively faster and more pleasant experience. That being said, the iPhone coupled with a 3G network would likely be far better.
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igazza
Posted: 55 months ago
clearly the iphone is in a league of its own. unfortunately we dont have legal ones in australia .
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iWizzard
Posted: 55 months ago
They do not seem to say what type of 3G they are using, most likely the old standard that has 365Kbps, today we have 7,2Mbps (tho 3,6Mbps i most common).

Edge has 236,8Kbps. So it seems that safari is much faster then Nokias STANDARD browser, at that location at that specific time.
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jazzkids
Posted: 55 months ago
I'm happy that you posted this. Before getting the iPhone I had a Treo700p. I went into the Apple Store and tried them side by side. Yes, the Treo would load up about 3-5 seconds faster, but the browser looked like garbage.

I agree that with a better looking layout, safari in the iPhone is more useable than the Treo or other phone's browsers. Even though other phones are faster, you can get to the information you are looking for faster on a browser that looks good.

Also, I liked how the Nokia turned off twice while loading a webpage. :rolleyes:
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KindredMAC
Posted: 55 months ago
This is old news....
Someone already did this using a Treo on a 3G network.
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AmbitiousLemon
Posted: 55 months ago
I'd like to see an iPhone EDGE vs iPhone 3G comparison where we get the iPhone to use 3G by having it connect via wifi to a laptop with a 3G network card in it.
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slicecom
Posted: 55 months ago
Both are painfully slow. I bet a 3G iPhone would be incredibly fast.
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ben5959
Posted: 55 months ago
and people have given apple so much crud all along when they decided to go edge and not 3g on launch date. coupled with the better battery life, i think they made the right decision
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ben5959
Posted: 55 months ago
I love my iphone,
today's tuesday, guess what that means.........update?please?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Spanky Deluxe
Posted: 55 months ago
I agree with this. EDGE on the iPhone is significantly faster that 3G browsing ever was on my Nokia N80. In my experience, EDGE is also fast enough for YouTube video streaming - what more would you want while on the go??
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JMax1
Posted: 55 months ago

Both are painfully slow.


Agreed.

I like my eye candy, though, and at least I can amuse myself with turning my iPhone from portrait to landscape mode while the page loads.
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