iPhone 3GS: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
So now that the new iPhone is already here, it is time for some reviews, tests and comparisons. Is it the new iPhone faster and better phone than the old iPhone 3G? Apple claims that the new 3GS can accomplish the same tasks up to twice as fast as its predecessors. But, how does it compare to smart phones recently released from other vendors? And why not, is the new iPhone harder and stronger?
Medialets has performed a JavaScript based benchmark tests using the SunSpider test suite on the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the T-Mobile G1 running Android, and the Palm Pre running webOS. SunSpider is a tool suite for benchmarking that enables cross-platform comparisons among the devices (it is based on web browsers tests). In the Medialets study, the iPhone 3GS outperformed the Palm Pre by a factor of three and the T-Mobile G1 by over a factor of five. It is also remarkable that iPhone OS 3.0 provides a nearly three-fold improvement in performance over OS 2.2.1 running on the same hardware.
