We've already seen the iPhone 3GS
handily win an ARM Cortex A8-powered browsing bakeoff against the Palm Pre, but now that a few more devices have hit the scene with the processor it's time for another round, don't you think? Pocketables certainly does, and they've pitted the 3GS against a pretty eclectic group of devices, including the
Sharp NetWalker Android "smartbook," the
Archos 5 IMT, and the
Archos 5 Android PMP. That's two Android devices, one funky proprietary OS, and the iPhone, all running different browsers on different variants of the same chip design, so there are obviously a lot of variables at play here, but the results are still interesting: the 800MHz Android Archos 5's WebKit browser was just a tick faster than the 600MHz iPhone 3GS, turning in an average page-load time of 9.0 seconds as opposed to 9.6, while the 800MHz NetWalker and 600MHz Archos 5 IMT trailed at 10.3 and 11.6 seconds. All we're taking away from that is that WebKit-based mobile browsers still seem to be the speed champs, but we're sure you have a different opinion.
posted October 27th 2009 2:46PM
I love that this thing is running Android. I really enjoyed the original Archos 5 ... cept that resistive touchscreen
you mean all i have to do is lug around a bigger, heavier, dedicated PMP (and separate cell phone) to load a page 1/2 a second faster? jesus, what am i doing sitting here? i need to order this ASAP!
It is understood that iPhone 3GS bested by Android Archos 5 tablet in browsing benchmarks, but i hate iTunes, cause it stop me getting files off iphone. Althrough there are some tools like Daniusoft iphone transfer http://www.daniusoft.com/iphone-transfer.html#135 can get music/video off iphone, but it is paid ...
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You mean a Samsung ARM 8 processor., It's NOT an Apple Processor Engadget. What a stupid comparison. Like Apple should get credit for buying a samsung product.
I'm curious to see how fast the Pandora loads web pages running Chromium. Should be an interesting comparison.
Do these phone OS's support a 'host' file kind of mechanism? Null routing some adlinks should work better than anything.