"Oxford" <apony@pasture.com> wrote in message
news:apony-BC2307.22365719062009@news.qwest.net...
> there are some nice charts at the below link showing the quickness of
> the new iphone... enjoy...
>
> In loading a series of complex websites over Wi-Fi, AnandTech has found
> that the 3G S is about 54 percent faster on average than the 3G and, in
> a few cases, is about three times faster. But it's also about 11 percent
> faster than the Palm Pre, which shares WebKit as a rendering engine, and
> is only slower in two out of nine tests. That lead only grows wider with
> the T-Mobile G1: as it's slower than the iPhone 3G, it's often twice as
> fast or more.
>
> Load times for commonly available apps were less dramatic between
> iPhones but only exacerbated the gaps between the Pre and Apple's
> hardware. A 3G S is between 13 percent and 42 percent faster at loading
> these apps versus a 3G depending on conditions, but it starts these
> roughly between two and four times faster than a Pre. Again, the sole
> Android phone in the comparison is slower still in all but Google Maps.
>
> Almost all of the speedup is attributed to the Samsung ARM Cortex A8
> processor at the heart of the new iPhone. Its clock speed gain is
> obvious, but it can also issue two instructions at once instead of the
> original iPhone's one and has more than twice as much cache. Palm is
> using an OMAP 3 chip from Texas Instruments that itself is considered
> fast.
>
> more (and charts) here:
>
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...aster_than_pal
> m_pre_500k_sales_conservative.html

Does that mean that I can talk any faster? I always thought that phones
were primarily communication devices.