Comments on: VIDEO: Blackberry Storm vs. iPhone web browsing

By: e

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:25:29 +0000

Since 3G service is highly dependent on location, you really need WiFi to properly measure performance (oh wait, can’t do that until SOMEONE ELSE can carry the Storm – I guess not only AT&T+Apple have a monopoly on products…). In my workplace, I can achieve 1.4 Mbit with my iPhone over 3G!!!! It blows me away. I believe currently in the US EVDO tops out at 800 Kbps, making the iPhone vastly superior (in my specific environment). Therefore, I think a video like this is pointless….
What we really want to know is rendering speed, or at least, measuring the two phones at locations that may be different from each other, but where optimal speed can be achieved for each.
At least, run speed tests on both and report in this article what the bandwidth was for each.

By: Synthmeister

Synthmeister — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:48:24 +0000

It would be faster on WiFi. Oh wait, Storm doesn’t have WiFi. Still can’t believe they left off Wifi.

By: KJ

KJ — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:37:38 +0000

The thing about these speed tests is that the biggest delays come from downloading advertisements from slow 3rd party servers. Depending on which ads each phone gets served, and how slow the servers for them are, you’ll see different results on each trial.