3G iPhone vs EDGE iPhone Speed Comparison

[DeuceDeuce]

It still took 16 seconds to load a page?

Hm.

3G impresses me less and less. If the next iPhone simply has 3G and GPS as the only additional things, I won't think about upgrading. 3G isn't anywhere in my area anyway!

But I am surrounded by wifi...

Same here, 16 seconds? That isnt worth the price for me to upgrade. Im actually really glad!

 

[elppa]

I think the point of HSDPA is it enables different ways to use the network — video streaming, video conferencing etc., which is much harder to do over EDGE.

The “it loads a webpage a few seconds faster” bit is still relevant, but less important.

 

[Telp]

The difference in speeds was not a big deal. Sure, the 3G was faster, but so little so that it doesnt make a huge differene. We'll see when they come out officialy, we shall find out how the iPhone handles it.

 

[VideoShooter]

Time will tell.

Why not just say "I breathe air" or "water is wet".

If you don't have anything to say... don't.

 

[s1m]

You should be aware that services up 24mbit via ADSL2 are already available in australia dependant on where you live and that's through decent providers other than telstra.

And as for wireless, all of our mobile networks also currently support HSDPA at least up to 3Mbit with upgrades on the way and telstras 850mhz network had faster speeds again (if you want to pay through the nose for it). Well over your quoted wired broadband speed.

So it's not quite as gloom and doom as you might make out.

Jay

Hmm it may not be doom and gloom but it certainly rubbish. We seem to be hamstringing the metropolitan areas because we have to have "equal" ervice in the Bush and metro.

It may not be cocnuts on strings but we are a fair way behind what a cutting edge country like Oz should be...

 

[wolfstocktrader]

My main complaint with Edge is not speed. After all, historical price quotes on Yahoo finance take only 7 seconds.

The main problem is that when you are browsing on Edge, you cannot receive phone calls. 3g WILL allow phone calls.

Otherwise, I can live with Edge.

 

[sleepingworker]

Guess a lot of first gen iPhones will be on ebay in a month or two ...

 

[Snide]

Yeah...the way 3G people were beating up Apple for choosing Edge, I thought 3G was like the second coming. So it appears it might be twice as fast (at least on that guys street hehe). I'm glad something is coming along faster and all, but I'm a bit disappointed. Certainly not "Broadband" speeds at least in the U.S...

I like your "second coming" comment. Here's a post I made late last year comparing iPhone
speeds on Edge, MacBook tethered to iPhone via EDGE, and iPhone on Wi-Fi vs MacBook.
Very interesting to say the least!

3G is not the second coming of Christ - prepare to be disappointed

Although I'm sure you do it- Fully shutting down and Restarting the IPhone from time to time does help with some of the speed issues that occassionally pop up (just like restarting a computer).

As you can see in the linked thread above, rebooting the iPhone, clearing Safari
cache, ect, made no difference whatsoever.

 

[duke49er]

So 3G is faster than EDGE. Was a speed comparison really necesary? Doesn't everybody and their whore of a mother know that already? What exactly was this supposed to prove?

 

[willcodejavafor]

*starts chant*

3G iPhone, 3G iPhone, 3G iPhone

My sister has an iPhone now and yes, its nice, great, does what we want... but I'd prefer 3G.. more coverage in the UK =)

Umm

Edge works fine for me. I'm mostly in London so maybe some little village outside could have problems but I doubt it would have 3G then. I thought 3G is on top of Edge when 3g cannot find cover anyway.

Lots of people seem really confused about this whole Edge/3G thing. I dont know where all this misinformation comes from.