I am at home this evening, and so I decided to update both my parents iPhones to version 3 firmware. My mum has the 3G and my dad has the original EDGE iPhone. While using my mum’s iPhone after it’s set up, I noticed something which they had commented on since she got the new iPhone – it isn’t very fast. I had never heard that the iPhone 3G was particularly slow but I really did notice how sluggish it seemed. With that in mind, and the fact that anecdotally my iPod touch 1st Gen felt faster, I did a side by side comparison using the DSLReports Mobile Speed Test over the home wifi. With the proviso that our home internet connection is appallingly slow, I found some interesting results:
iPhone Download Speed
iPod Download Speed
I was pretty surprised by these results. I am not sure why this iPhone 3G is so sluggish but it is much slower than the 1st Gen iPod touch.