Thread: The OTHER big product launch?!
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-09-09 , 04:38
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Originally Posted by daveymark View Post
so far the only device that compares to n800 with regards to webpage rendering speed is a PC/Mac. I haven't seen the iphone in person yet but there's a youtube vid comparing it with a Treo and they both take over a minute to render cnn.com. treo has "fast" EVDO speed, iphone has EDGE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTdFTIF2No

I'll be sticking to the n800 until a faster rendering device gives it a run for its money

the itouch has the safari browser but it's useless without BT
To be honest, the iPhone doesn't look bad at all - try using a N800 over a BT connection with GPRS connection to the internet and download a graphics heavy website such as CNN... under those circumstances the N800 would be slower than the iPhone in that demonstration (GPRS: 30-40kpbs, EDGE 80-100kps, possibly higher). The N800 is faster over WiFi, but then so would be the iPhone.

What is interesting is how smooth the iPhone UI is, how responsive the browser is even though it's still downloading, and how easily sections of the page can be zoomed in and out which makes browsing on a low resolution display possible (these Microsoft devices with their low resolution displays AND cruddy browser technology mean they're not competitors to the NIT).

EDIT: If you look at this video I'd say engadget loads faster on the iPhone over EDGE than it loads on my N800 over WiFi!!!
Last edited by Milhouse; 2007-09-09 at 04:50.