carlkeehn wrote:
> "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.
>
>

Nope!

And nope again!

Today's cell phone is more than a phone. Typically it's a PDA as well.
Sometimes it's a TV set or a web browser too.

It may still be possible to find a cell phone that's ONLY a phone but I
wouldn't count on it!