I was on AT&T's EDGE network for a solid day before I made the decision to go with Sprint's EVDO, need I say more
I couldn't even get Google Maps to load correctly. Then when I thought the iPhone would have performed differently since it was made by Apple I was sorely mistaken. I think that phone in the Apple Store is still loading that map.
Hopefully 3G will change that, and hopefully Apple will make the keyboard a better tool for mobile word processing and note taking.
This is just my opinion, nothing more, you can laugh at me if you wish.
These aren't features, these are things that should have been in the phone from the start, and they are still missing some that I thought would have been there from the drawing board:
- File transfers
- Phone as modem
- MMS text messaging
- Phone as storage device
- Copy & Paste
And in a month you get:
Still hopeful. They will come but Apple has been late on things beforeand hopefully they won't leave out the small list I made above. Not to mention that there are other features that other people would like see.
http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/blackberry_vs_iphone
John Gruber has an excellent take on iPhone performance. Specifically, he mentions that there is a performance hit from rendering html due to the cpu. His comparison was based on WiFi performance of a laptop vs an iPhone.
3G will help, but hardware seems to be the limitation at this point. Historically, Apple designs its software to grow into hardware, so I would expect to see measurable improvements in html and graphics rendering in the next iteration, given the 18 months that have transpired for the first iPhone.
