Michael CM1
macrumors 603
It likely depends on reception of services too. Are you both on the same network? Whilst up on the moors I (on Virgin Mobile) get a full signal whilst my friends Vodaphone gets no signal at all.
The iPhone also has a pretty fast renderer. Some guy at college had one of the first 3G phones - downloads and stuff were fast but loading up a standard page was really haulted.
Just saying theres probably reasons why 3G was so slow.
I know absolutely nothing about the N95, but theoretically if you hooked a very old 486 cpu-based PC to a 3.0Mbps Internet connection and then used iTunes to download a song, a C2D iMac with a 512kbps or whatever connection would probably do that all faster.
In other words, 3G is only part of the equation. Yes, network connections are usually the bottlenecks of all computers, but the whole package counts.
FWIW, EDGE has been pretty good to me so far. It's not sucking battery life and seems to be kinda double the speed of dial-up. I can deal with that for $250 (beats having nothing on the RAZR).