The iPhone 3G S has been pitted against the upstart Palm Pre to see which is the faster platform. The Palm Pre did well, but the iPhone 3G S is substantially faster – and utterly demolishes the original iPhone 3G.
Tech site Anandtech performed the tests, one of which compared web page rendering times on the iPhone 3 G, iPhone 3S S and Palm Pre, while the other measured the time it takes to launch applications on those 3 platforms plus the Android G1.
The web page rendering tests compared times for fully opening several popular sites. The iPhone 3G S came out top, rendering web pages a whopping 122% faster than the old-school iPhone 3G thanks to its new ARM Cortex A8 processor. The Palm Pre, which also rocks a Cortex A8 did better than the iPhone 3G, but was still 22% slower on average than the 3G S.
When it came to App launching, however, the Palm Pre was pretty dismal in comparison to the 3G S, performing roughly equivalent to an old 3G iPhone, barring some anomalous results like taking 8.6 seconds to open Google Maps – more than twice as long as the G1, which was otherwise the slowest phone. The 3G S performs between 15% & 72% faster than the Pre and 3G.
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