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 Oct 27th 2009 2:46PM
I hope an 800mhz tablet would be faster than a phone
Did you try Atom netbooks?
It's the same proc the iPhone uses...
Plus the iPhone 3GS is supposed to be snappy and Fast. at least that's what Apple says in all the advertising they've been pouring all around the world on 99% of the techblogs and all the major TV networks.
So No I don't think this is a useless statement.
Oh ans the "S" in 3GS guess what it stands for ?
[hint : it's not Suck]
Why IE browser is not in the list? Is it because WinMo has demised? Or
because IE has decided to play in the minor league?
I would hope there was more of a difference, actually. For whatever reason (probably related to the multiple layers of software in between the web and the processor), the 3GS is achieving almost 94% of the Archos 5's page loading speed with only 75% of the clock speed. (Mind you, you have to jailbreak the sucker to get real use out of it, but still...)
@Félix: you must not have read the article, because it says the Android Archos 5 has an 800MHz processor, while the 3GS has a 600MHz processor. Give the iPhone an 800MHz processor and it would probably be on top again.
A whole .4 of second on average. Wow! Archos is the king of internet swing. At least one or two people are going to give up their iPhones for some Archos tablet....NOT.
Nice work to pocketables for featuring this comparison. The competition is pretty tight huh between this two "beasts". Suddenly, I remember the video ad campaign ran by Motorola-Verizon for its Droid Phone. Now, some iPhone junkies created a video spoof to counter the Droiddoes video. If you forgot the details, I have this source link:
http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/verizon-launches-anti-iphone-marketing-campaign-droiddoes/
Enjoy!
Did this test take into account the ammount of time it takes to reboot your Archos 10x, to get to said pages? Or does the 2 months it spend in it's so called "RMA" department, count towards these times? Because My buddy tried to get to ESPN and the Archos just crashed over and over and now is sitting in the RMA department. So by his estimate, ESPN's website is at about 4 weeks and running for a load time.. wonderful products...
Yes, cause a select few fail means that every device is like that
/sarcasm
Hey did you hear iPhone 3GS's overheat?
Windows Blue Screens.
OSX SL deletes files
PS2's died a lot back in the day
360's have RROD
Pre's split apart
Oh yea, SHIT HAPPENS.
I'm so far having a really good experience with mine! It was crashing all the time then I update it and Im very satisfied. I did read so many real bad reviews and because of the screen size decided to give a try since my main interest was to watch youtube video, web browsing and PDF files. plus any other site that offers flash video download option i can watch.
Uh, this is the Archos 5, not 10x.
@ Missionsparta
You DO realize that this isn't a device running Archos's old OSs right?
Archos Android is pretty neat. Love it. Listening to Taylor Swift right now... Love the archos almost as much as T Swift. Its a close call.
Geez engadget, why does it take so long to load your page?
Because the tubes are full.
The comments.
justin.m.beasley = Win
they're a owned by AOL
Since they are owned by AOL they ran out of the free trial of 10,000 hours of free dial-up.
If I hadn't heard so many stories about Archos products I would be more interested. I take it that the 200Mhz that the Archos has over the iPhone really doesn't make too much of a difference when it comes to web browsing.
I thought it was the same processor? doesnt apple under-clock it?
Oohh... men, I could of done so much more in that second...
Shit adds up.
Yeah... what he said. See, after browsing for three hours, you could have built up just over 30 seconds of free time. Think of the possibilities!!!
@uwaga dude is my hero. xoxo
@uwaga
I don't understand your calculation:
9.6/9=1.067 is a percentage.
It should be:
0.6sec/website X 1000 websites/week=600sec/week
600 X 52=31200sec/year
which is 520min
which is approx 8.66 hours
And you can't be paid 22$/hour for a job similar to "sitting and browsing the net", it will be more like 10$
Meaning you get 86.6$/year
@Atkins
I think he was referring to any job in general would pay that much. If you could point me in the direction of a job that pays $10 an hour for surfing the web, please do so!
@Mjayhunt
If there was such a job I would've taken it already :) got your point
Anyway, I think that 8.6h over year is not that much, especially if you consider that you will probably watch some stupid movies, oversleep at least a few times, even maybe watch TV (well, that's an extreme), and do some other useless stuff like writing comments on Engadget, which all will amount to more than 8.6 hours a week. Better start optimizing your life than your phone.
It's funny because they're phones, that also use the internet, can render web pages, take photos, videos, have touchscreens, and that we're reading a comparison (on the internet) about how one phone loads .6 seconds faster than the other.
Only one of these is a phone.
Yeah, that's the first thing i noticed on my Archos tablet, web browsing experience is SWEEET!!!! I hardly have to zoom anything. love the pixelation density.
none of them supports flash?
Android gets Flash just like other platforms (except for the iPhone) next year.
Maybe the iPhone had a lot of stuff running in the background.
what you did there, I see it
LOL, if only the iPhone could run more than 1 thing at a time.
Face.....meets palm.
iPhone still wins in my mind.
In mine too ;)
"la la la la, I can't hear you" FTW.
doesn't take much to satisfy the simple minded.
I am a happy longtime Archos customer and am impressed by the A5A but I can't bring myself to plunk down the cash until I see what Dell and Apple have planned in the next few months.
Ha, You know I've being thinking like that for 3 years now. I'm so mad at stupid apple. until I decided for this Archos android. I even forgot about freedom when I was stucked with apple, I can, download, copy, move , rename, files on the archos. Its my first archos device after years of apple and I don't miss the iPod.
Hows does that 3GS when you try browsing while listening to Pandora? Oh, yeah, forgot, it can't do that...
Pre FTW
Pre is yesterday's news. And you know it, Jim.That's why you're so hung up on the iphone
You've probably got small girly fingers. That's why the Pre suits you so well.
There's an App for That
Sure you can. Jailbreak + Backgrounder.
my iphone can multitask!. and it would kill your pre!
i run many heavy apps in the backround. such as jazzfm, tomtom europe, safari, and many extensions with no lag or slow downs. how many apps can your pre run at the same time? well if my iphone can run upto 50 apps, and then it starts to lag