Comments on: Palm Pre Webcast Tidbit: Browser Nearly 4x Faster than iPhone (Updated with video)

By: Sprint Palm Pre

Sprint Palm Pre — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:34:29 +0000

I’m really amazed it’s that fast. I thought it was going to be 2x faster, so 4x faster is awesome!

By: Palm Pre Blog

Palm Pre Blog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:11:17 +0000

Wow that’s fast

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:13:15 +0000

@ Lupin

How do you know that the page was cached previous to the demonstration? You must be a very flustered iPhone user who can’t believe something else might actually be better!

Why does the test have to be a fake just because the Pre did it in 8 seconds, when Opera Mini on my Instinct just did it in 10 seconds?!! The Sprint network has the fastest 3G download times in America, without question! Run mobilespeedtest.com on an iPhone 3G then on a Sprint phone, the test is not even close! That, combined with the fastest mobile processor I’ve ever heard of, makes me believe that the page was actually NOT cached previous to the demonstration.

By: lupin

lupin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:11:36 +0000

this test is a fake… the palm pre uses the cache…

By: Goy

Goy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:34:48 +0000

Clocked in just about a minute using the Obigo browser on my Instinct. Problem is while the picture changes on the main pic on the website it makes the loading time inaccurate and scrolling very choppy…
Opera Mini clocked in at 10 seconds, but the pics don’t change…and there’s whited out areas on the screen…

By: ILDO

ILDO — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:15:05 +0000

Indeed, Europ is ver well equiped. This device is going to chllenge the iphone bjut who knows whether the iphone V3 comes over on june? Message from the very old Europ, lol

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:36:55 +0000

About a second or two on my MacBook Pro 2.33 with Safari 4 over an Airport connection hooked up to TimeWarner broadband cable.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:42:02 +0000

BlackJack II w/ WinMo 6.1

1m 24s. Page didn’t look nearly as nice as the Pre’s though. I already have money set aside for the Pre

By: al

al — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:21:35 +0000

15 Seconds on my HTC wizard with skyfire over wifi. On the second time it’s around 10 seconds.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:26:17 +0000

Took 9 seconds to fully load on my Sprint Mogul over EVDO using Opera Mini 4.2. Opera Mini and Skyfire both use a similar approach to browsing. They have servers that do all the “heavy lifting” and then send the final image to your phone. But, in my opinion Opera Mini is the easier to use of the two. I only use Skyfire when I need to stream Flash video or audio. Opera Mini is my day-to-day pick for fast browsing. So, the Pre looks awesome, but it’s browsing speed won’t be the reason for my purchase.

By: dhw

dhw — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:09:59 +0000

In the video, the guy isn’t going to big12sports.com, its going directly to the mens basketball link from the google search. On a google g1 with wifi, it took me 15 sec to render that site. Which is the same as what jkontherun reported.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:32:41 +0000

3 seconds on my MacBook in Safari 4.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:46:04 +0000

My C2D 2.4GHz laptop + Firefox did it in 5 sec at first visit.

By: Aibal

Aibal — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:25:25 +0000

Yes, I find it interesting as well that the Pre, and some of these other phones, can render the page faster than my C2D 2.5ghz laptop. Hmmm…

By: adicahya

adicahya — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:14:51 +0000

Tried it with my Nokia 5800 over wifi (384kpbs connection). It loads over 1 minutes with Nokia standard browser.

By: dclee9

dclee9 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:26:38 +0000

thanks, Skyfire is really good, just tried on my Sprint Mogul.
site loads about 8-10 sec too. just gave new life to my 2 year old phone.