3G iPhone vs EDGE iPhone Speed Comparison

Probably not an entirely fair comparison, since the iphone is sharing the imac's 3G connection, it means the imac was probably connected to the 3G network already, whereas the 2.5G iphone had to join the data network then load the page.

A more fair comparison would have been connecting the imac to the 3G network *then* loading the page and comparing the times.

Probably not an entirely fair comparison, since the iphone is sharing the imac's 3G connection, it means the imac was probably connected to the 3G network already, whereas the 2.5G iphone had to join the data network then load the page.

A more fair comparison would have been connecting the imac to the 3G network *then* loading the page and comparing the times.

Not necessarily. The iMac has the ability to render pages much quicker than the iPhone. There were a lot of images and ads to place in that page. I doubt it would be entirely possible to come up with an accurate result anyway. Depending on signal strength, what city they are in, what type of chip ends up in the 3g iPhone, the processing power of the 3g iPhone, and the physical distance to the server the webpage was stored on can all be factors. For instance, when I'm at home in the east side of Kansas City, my Edge speeds seem to be fairly good. When I go over to the west side of KC where my girlfriend lives, the Edge speeds are easily 50% faster. When I'm at school in Springfield, MO, the speeds are about 25-50% slower then my base speeds on the east side of KC. Given the variations in the same technology, and all the various 3g chips and specs, cell phone tower quality and density, and the web pages you typically visit, everyone will have a different experience. We won't really be able to tell until we get a baseline score from thousands of people using the final version, but its still kinda neat to see what we can look forward to, even though my college town doesn't have 3g. I just wish the new iPhone is compatible with my school's wifi network. Then I won't ever have to worry about 3g! And the annoying connect to wifi popups will go away since there is coverage everywhere.

Time will tell.

A more fair comparison would have been connecting the imac to the 3G network *then* loading the page and comparing the times.

If the 3G iPhone doesn't have an always on PDP context then that will truely be ****.

The iMac has the ability to render pages much quicker than the iPhone.

This is completely irrelevant. The iMac just serves as a conduit to connect the iPhone to the 3G network and is not rendering or processing the data that is coming down in any way.

The biggest problem I have with EDGE is that it takes so long for it to make a connection. Checking my email takes much longer on EDGE than WiFi, but loading a page, once it starts loading, isn't all that much slower...

Anything that shaves time off loading is fine by me. Hurry up 3G.

I think Apple should also work on increasing the iPhone's rendering speed of webpages - on wifi, with my MacBook and iPhone next to eachother on my wifi network, my MacBook is so much faster than my iPhone generally, even on just simple mainly-text sites.

As well as just shifting to newer/different technologies/network types, they should really concentrate on the speed of the device itself.

This relates to other apps for me as well - I really wish the whole thing was a lot snappier and more instant, without the little delays all over the place (SMS, Calendar, Safari etc.)...

Well with the rumors of Apple to switching to the brand new ARM processor floating about, maybe they are killing two birds with the 3G iphone.

*starts chant*

3G iPhone, 3G iPhone, 3G iPhone :D

My sister has an iPhone now and yes, its nice, great, does what we want... but I'd prefer 3G.. more coverage in the UK =)