Updated: iPhone 3G S 21% Faster vs. Palm Pre in Web Render Benchmarks
Update: Engadget re-did the math and it looks like the iPhone 3G S is actually 21% faster than the Palm Pre (for now).
According to Anandtech, Dieter was spot on in his iPhone 3G S vs. Palm Pre browser speed test video. (as was our iPhone 3G S vs. iPhone 3G smackdown video)
The bigger story, of course, is not only do we have several great devices pushing competition and better serving users these days, but Mobile WebKit (the rendering engine behind Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome Lite, Palm Pre’s browser, and Nokia S60 (tip of the hat to Sascha Segan) has become the mobile internet platform.
That it’s relentlessly standards based, scales elegantly from desktop (where it ironically holds minimal share) to handset, and is continually being improved upon makes us especially happy for all concerned devices.
June 20th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Yep, just like I thought.
June 20th, 2009 at 5:38 am
I’m viewing this on a 3G S now and it did load very quickly!
June 20th, 2009 at 7:36 am
All this speed and the most you will be able to do is browse faster and play games. When can we multitask Apple?
June 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I seriously doubt the results from yesterday confirm anything. Fist, Dieter didn’t close all windows on the Pre, so it could’ve been performing tasks in the background, next he had sh*tty sprint coverage at the time, and lastly he was hitting Go on the iPhone first, then hitting it on the Pre.
All that and the iPhone just barely won out over the Pre. iPhones weakness is still it’s network.
-Sent from my iPhone
June 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am
So true Brrandon… So true…
June 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Wow, such lack of simple grace in the comments. Disheartening. They’re both great phones. Chillax.
June 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@Rene, always the peace maker you are.
But in all honesty I’d be mad too if I owned a Pre. 
June 20th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Sigh…
I’ll never understand why people even give a **** about rabidly bashing one thing over another. Cause and effect. Action and reaction. Inertia. Without the iPhone, the Pre would be a singular wet dream in the mind of a Palm fanboy after a full night of WinMo bashing at WMExperts.
Face it, piss and moan all you like: the Pre would not exist, nor would your argument, nor would your presence in this blog/forum/site without the iPhone and its features to emulate. And I’m not an Apple fanboy. I JUST LIKE COOL STUFF.
As Rene said, both phones are great. Take a shower and calm down.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
If you throw out the slashdot.org (statistical outlier) the advantage of the 3gs over the pre is only 11%.
Really this set of data is not a very conclusive test, the pre was actually faster loading 3 of the 9 websites.