Found Footage: Browsing speed compared on the iPhone 4 and 3GS

How many of these speed tests are we going to see? We get it! The iPhone 4 is faster. Do you think it would be in Apple's best interest to make a product that is slower than the one it is replacing?

I think that my 3G -while slow and not as feature rich- still does exactly what I need it to when I need it. I can not see any reason to upgrade and given the current state of the iPhone 4, I do not want to upgrade to a phone that is having problems. Apple really could have set themselves apart with this phone, but instead they improved speed with the A4 (while good, that is a given), added Face Time which is limiting on how you can use it (both parties need an iPhone 4 and must be on WiFi), and improved on other hardware (like adding a gyroscope). While these features are great, they are not compelling enough reasons to upgrade. Not even recording HD movies is worth it especially since you have to offload the movies to your computer to retain 720p. I was hoping for more but didn't see it. At least in a limited form, I can still use the iOS 4 software and that is good enough for me.

Think, please.

The iPhone 3Gs was running 3.1.3. I did a similar test myself, but my Gs was running 4.0. It ran much closer to my friends iPhone 4. Software seems to account for much of the difference under the test conditions.

I'd guess the differences would be more pronounced on WiFi.

but if the 3Gs is running 3.1.3 and the iPhone 4 iOS 4 then is not "fair" comparison

Too bad he wasn't holding the phones, then we could see how using it in the real world affects the speed.

Some vids show iphone4 and ipad just same speed as the 3GS.

However more importantly is youtube is super slow for all 3 devices. It can take 6 mins to buffer a 3mins clip.