Is the iPhone 3GS REALLY that much faster?

Posted Jul 2, 2009 at 5:13PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Apple iPhone 3GS Tags: 3gs, apple, ios, news

We tested the load times of the iPhone 3GS vs the iPhone 3G. Apple have been banging on about how much faster the iPhone 3GS is, but is it really worth the $1000 for the 7.2mbps 3G connection. The video certainly reveals that the iPhone 3GS now boasts download speeds that are close to broadband speeds. (Ironically, iPhone User Guide took longer to load on the Mac than the iPhone, but we're blaming that on the lame internet in our office!)

iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G - Safari download speeds

iPhone 3G - 26 seconds

iPhone 3GS - 10 seconds

So in our test (we ran this test at least 3 times to make sure it wasn't some weird anomaly with the mobile networks) we found the iPhone 3GS to be 2.5x faster when it comes downloading over the cellular network.

*Obviously we were running this test on two different networks, but in all our previous tests we've found both networks to run at almost exactly the same speed.

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