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.

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!

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