iPhone 3GS Trounces Predecessors, Rivals in Web Browser Speed Test
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A benchmark test conducted by an iPhone analytics company indicates the new iPhone 3GS is three times faster with web browsing than the iPhone 3G and the Palm Pre.
Conducted by Medialets, the test involved running a JavaScript benchmark called SunSpider using the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1 and Palm Pre. (SunSpider tests the core JavaScript language only, and it’s designed to compare different versions of the same browser, or different browsers with each other.)
In summary, the results are as follows:
- iPhone 3GS running iPhone 3.0 OS completed the test in 16.5 seconds
- iPhone 3G running iPhone 3.0 completed the test in 48.7 seconds
- iPhone 3G running the earlier iPhone 2.2.1 OS completed the test in 132.3 seconds
- T-Mobile G1 running Android 1.5 (Cupcake) completed the test in 91.1 seconds
- Palm Pre running Web OS 1.0.2 completed the test in 48.6 seconds
Here’s what we find interesting:
- Even if you don’t purchase the latest iPhone, downloading the free iPhone 3.0 OS onto an iPhone 3G delivers three times faster web browsing than the iPhone 2.0 OS.
- The Palm Pre is just as fast as an iPhone 3G running the iPhone 3.0 OS.
- Before the recent iPhone 3.0 upgrade, the iPhone 2.0 OS was considerably slower than its rivals, taking about 40 seconds longer to complete the test than the T-Mobile G1.
Medialets used a MacBook as the baseline (i.e., the fastest performer for the phones to be compared to). The MacBook took only 1.36 seconds to complete the same test. The iPhone 3GS led the smartphone race, taking only 14 times longer than the MacBook to complete SunSpider.
Given these results, perhaps the iPhone 3GS will quell complaints about issues connecting to AT&T’s 3G network: From my own experience, it makes the slower EDGE network feel much speedier, too.
For full details of the benchmark test, see Medialets’ summary of results.
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Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Image: Courtesy of Medialets
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