YouTube Find: Mobile browser showdown - its the hardware that isimportant

I found this neat bit of info about the iPhone hardware that continues
to blow all those non iPhones out of the water.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/11/youtu...wser-showdown/


YouTube Find: Mobile browser showdown
Yesterday, December 11, 2007, 10:00:00 PM | Nik Fletcher
Filed under: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple, iPhone

The iPhone's data connectivity is arguably the one thing that people
begrudge. The device experience is fantastic, until you try and browse
'the proper internet' via your mobile network. At this point, most are
thinking "Why EDGE, Steve, Why?", and those who chose to plunk down
the bills for another phone (N95 anyone?) grin smugly. But this
smugness might be short-lived, for the folks at Blackfriars Marketing
have stumbled across a German YouTube clip proving that the width of
your 'tube' might not be the only deciding factor. In this case, it's
the hardware used to process 'the proper internet'.

Now you're probably thinking 'huh?' but let's put it this way: the
iPhone's connectivity may be slower, but once the data is there, the
hardware in the svelte enclosure gets the data in front of you faster
than other handsets out there. The other browser in the video coughs
and splutters whilst the limited hardware scrambles to show the
content.

So what does this really tell us that we already know? Yes, the iPhone
OS is snappy and suave. Yes, the screen is simply stunning. And yes,
desktop-class Mobile Safari means we can see the full internet. And
yes, we'd love to see some 3G-love come to the iPhone (this video
merely re-inforces that). But the video also reminds us of something
that, in the face of iCriticism, gets quickly overlooked: the iPhone
clearly isn't a mobile telephone platform. It's a mobile computing
platform, and under the hood we've got a lot to be thankful for.
http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2...-comparable-to



Video and Nokia-fan-abating disclaimer after the break!

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:e9c1b895-ea9e-4d96-
8170-2f6d33f4af40@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> It's a mobile computing
> platform,

It is?? I musta missed something. I thought COMPUTERS were
devices you installed SOFTWARE onto STORAGE to command the
processor to do useful things, ON ITS OWN, whenever you wanted
it.....not a SELLphone WebTV appliance you RENTED time on to do
what you wanted through a WEB PAGE that made the appliance LOOK
like it was a computer, when it was not.

Did I miss something?

How do I install Skype on it? I can install Skype on REAL
computers, right? I don't have to PAY someone to run Skype for
me and present me with a WEBPAGE that looks like I'm running
Skype...on a real computer....just an example.

I must admit it looks VERY sharp after these webpages are loaded
onto it because IT'S NOT WHAT'S DOING THE COMPUTING!

Larry
--
All the rest are just webpage appliances....
....exactly what SELLphone companies want you to own so they can
RENT you webpages and access to make it do something.

At 12 Dec 2007 14:39:15 -0800 4phun wrote:
> I found this neat bit of info about the iPhone hardware that continues
> to blow all those non iPhones out of the water.
>
> http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/11/youtu...wser-showdown/


Ironically, I followed your link and just watched that video on my "blown
out of the water" WinMo phone. Something neither the iPhone or Nokia shown
in the video is capable of...

Blackfriars' Marketing adds the following to the original data posted
here

iPhone EDGE browsing comparable to Nokia 3G Web


There were a lot of readers who said I was nuts to claim that the
iPhone's EDGE service was at all comparable to a real 3G experience on
my Nokia E61i. Now MacDailyNews has uncovered data to show that I am
not crazy. German Web site iPhone Infoblog videotaped both phones with
WiFi turned off and raced the iPhone's EDGE service experience against
a Nokia E61i using UMTS. The video, shown above, demonstrates that in
fact, the two experiences are nearly identical in speed, largely
because the iPhone's much faster processor and quicker rendering
compensates for the E61i's multi-megabit UMTS bandwidth on real Web
pages.

This experiment demonstrates the power of mobile phone carrier
marketing. The ideal business model is one where a vendor can bill for
a service that people don't or can't actually use; ask anyone who owns
a gym. Mobile phone carriers have been pushing multi-megabit 3G mobile
phone services, knowing full well that most mobile phones actually
can't keep up with them. And that's why data service for laptop 3G
adaptors is so much more expensive than 3G mobile phone services.
Laptops with multi-gigahertz processors actually use significant
portions of 3G bandwidth, requiring mobile carriers to incur more
provisioning costs to support those platforms.

But it also proves that raw bandwidth isn't the be-all and end-all of
a mobile Internet experience, just as my prior article claimed.
Processor speed, memory capacity, battery life, latency, and cost all
affect the consumer's experience in different ways. Good product
design strikes a reasonable compromise among those constraints. Great
product design creates user experiences that transcend them. And the
iPhone appears to have done just that, despite its lack of 3G
bandwidth.