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IntoMobile Tests Web Browsing Speeds

Posted by Chris Leckness on December 19, 2007 – 12:02 pm  Share
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Intomobile tests the page load speeds between the iPhone and the AT&T Tilt. We know that the iPhone should be slower considering that it’s on an EDGE phone and the Tilt is 3G, but they did it anyhow.

What we found was completely expected. There’s more at play then just throughput. The iPhone’s web-kit based Safari browser allowed it to load pages almost as fast as the AT&T Tilt. We used the Pocket Internet Explorer that comes pre-installed on the Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional-based AT&T Tilt – and it proved to be the device’s downfall. Both devices had similar processor speeds, so that aspect was fairly controlled for in this test.

Next year should be great for those that are waiting on the iPhone but have too many little thing stopping them. Next year should see a 3G iPhone, Microsoft Exchange Server support, and third party applications. That will about cover all my issues. (except for having an actual qwerty keyboard)

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  • ibmnky
    its true even it my 2 bars my opera loaded shopbob.com within 9 secs huh? this guy that made this video is a moron sorry but he is...
  • In that vid, signal strength on the Tilt was at 2 bars, but signal strength on the iPhone is 5 bars! I agree with comment above that that seems shady.

    Also, other sites have mentioned that straight UMTS and EDGE won't differ that much and Pocket IE is a dog. I would have preferred to see the Tilt at full bars, and a little H displayed before they tested. What they've done is take a rabbit, bound it's legs, starved it for a week, and then raced it against the fastest turtle. Surprise it's a tie.

    Also, Shopbop has lots of images. If iphone uses a proxy to strip out image detail, while Tilt is downloading the entire image, the test is unfair.

    Don't get me wrong, Apple fanboys, the iPhone is a totally incredible, beautiful, easy to use, device. The Tilt is a very powerful, highly functional, open, device. They're both great. But this face-off smells a little.

    That said, what they show approximates the out of the box experience for the mass market. There's a lot of people out there that don't want to tweak IP Stacks, install second browsers, KaiserTweak to get HSDPA, etc... Frankly, it's BS that we have to do all these things to make our smartphones work well.

    The iPhone and Safari offer a remarkably good mobile experience, where even as a Tilt fan, I never recommend my phone to non-tech enthusiasts.
  • Robert
    Did anyone notice that the WM phone was at HALF signal strength..but the Iphone was at full??

    I bet this is a "controlled" test to make the iphone better...

    Hell, I tried those webpages on my tilt in an EDGE network and I got faster (21, 24 & 7 respectively) with full signal strength on a tilt!
  • Eric
    The speed has more to do with the IP stack on windows mobile. If you increase the ip receive buffer the tilt/TyTN II loads pages much faster.

    Opera also loads pages in about half the time IE does.
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