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T-Mobile LTE speed test on iPhone 5

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2013)

Engadget covered T-Mobile's Un-Carrier event yesterday and was able to get some hands-on time with an iPhone 5 connected to the carrier's new LTE network. The team from Engadget did what most good techies would do -- they fired up Ookla's SpeedTest app to see how T-Mobile's flavor of LTE ...

iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 JavaScript benchmarks show big performance gains

by Chris Ward (Mar 7th, 2011)

Some of the first speed tests coming in show that hardware and software improvements in the iPad 2 are giving it decent performance gains over its predecessor -- and over rival devices. CNET UK decided to spend its brief hands-on time with the iPad 2 by running the SunSpider JavaScript ...

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

by David Winograd (Jul 6th, 2010)

Thanks to Obama Pacman, here's a neat (audio muted) video comparison of web browsing speed over 3G on an iPhone 4 (shown on the left) and an iPhone 3GS (shown on the right). The test was done using only mobile 3G with Wi-Fi turned off, and it shows a variety of sites using Safari in a head to ...

iPhone 3G S is crazy fast at 3D compared to iPhone 3G

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 22nd, 2009)

They didn't just slap an S on the back and call it a day, you know. Apple has improved the 3D performance on the 3G S by including a more powerful graphics processor. According to John Casasanta, the speed increase is up to four times that of the 3G. But don't take his word or these OpenGL ES speed ...

NetNewsWire vs. Vienna

by Cory Bohon (Jan 10th, 2008)

var digg_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/10/netnewswire-vs-vienna/'; RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) is becoming an ever more popular way to read online content quickly and without having to visit individual websites. As RSS feeds becomes more popular, so do the RSS readers that allow ...