Video: Instinct vs iPhone 3G - Web and Speed Test

Wednesday, September 03, 2008Minneapolis, Minnesota iPhone 3g at 3/5 bars. 1mb 1012kbit/sec. .52s latency. 8.608 sec d/l time

Monday, August 25, 2008Noah, don't know if you realized it but you inadvertently showed how annoying the Instinct touch screen is. How many times do you have to press on a link on the Instinct to get it to work. You only had to press the iPhone link once for it to work. Personally, I find the pressing over and over again to get something to work more "teeth grinding" than waiting for something to download.

Friday, August 22, 2008Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Minnesota. iPhone 3g- 4/5 Bars. 1 MB- 1800 kbit/sec 0.168s latency 4.707 Seconds. (Same place) Sprint Instinct- Full Coverage 1 MB- 502 kbit/ sec 0.133s latency 16.429 Seconds. Do I need to even say anything? The results speak for themselves. GO AT&T!!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008samsung instinct in Antioch CA 1M 408 kbit/sec 0.423 latency n 24.46s d/l time ;]

Saturday, August 09, 2008iPhone 3G on Rogers in Toronto - 1469 kbit/sec 0.486s latency 6.062s d/l time

Tuesday, August 05, 2008my treo 800w read 529kb/s in 15.792s for 1m file....

Tuesday, August 05, 2008Hey Noah i need some help my phone plan is up in october and i was woundering witch do u think would be the best phone for me the Samsung Instinct the Black Berry perl or the Palm Treo 800w i need some lehp on making a decision so if u could get back to me at my email it would would be very helpfull an to me it comes down to whitch would be the better bisness phone along withe good entertainment.

Friday, August 01, 2008Last night, smokey bar, back of bar - iphone 3G, 0 bars showing (said AT&T and 3G, but had like one dot of one bar visible). Did 3 tests over 3G, all using the NEW speedtest (it looks different and has slightly different options). Did the standard test. 1st time got 900 kbits, 2nd time got 700 kbits, 3rd time got 1050 kbits. Obviously highly dependent, and it looks like the bars may not have significance for data. From where I stand, that put the kibosh on the Instinct. The problem with this test really is they are different technologies on different networks. A real test would be to pit two phones sold by AT&T with 3G in the same spot. Pitting AT&T against Sprint will tell you more about the networks and differing coverage in that area than the actual phones. That being said, it is obvious that the iPhone has a vastly superior/faster browser. That being the case and all else being equal, the iPhone itself vastly outperforms the Instinct. You could test that by putting both on Wifi (the Instinct has Wifi, right?) and testing them against each other.

Thursday, July 31, 2008In Seattle, I get anywhere from 500-800 kbit on my iPhone 3G in 3G mode. Rarely do I get below 500, but I have. Usually that is with 3 or less bars.

Thursday, July 31, 2008I have been with sprint for 11 years and for the last 10 have stayed away from Samsung and only used Sanyo phones. I tried the Instinct, and while the bells and whistles of the phone are impressive, it's still a Samsung and the reception is still terrible. In my first day of ownership, it dropped 4 calls and 1 call went straight to voicemail. With such poor reception, I wonder how robust the other applications can be if you can't even make a call.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008I did the 400k test on my Instinct and got 496kb/sec, .295 latency, 6.737 dl time. I live in Sacramento, CA and had 4 bars

Tuesday, July 29, 2008Instinct Philly Pa 697 kbit/sec 0.278s latency 12.015s d/l time

Monday, July 28, 2008400k 365 kbit/sec 0.309s latency im in florida kissimme and im using the instinct (3 bars)

Friday, July 25, 2008I'm pretty sure you can download up to 10MB files from iTunes over the air. -NinjaTickets.com

Friday, July 25, 2008i have the instinct and i am in stl right now and on the 400k i got 512kbit/sec 0.393s latency 6.64s d/l time

Tuesday, July 22, 2008hey noah, I saw the instinct commerical and saw you can buy movie tickets on the phone screen. I dont see that anywhere on the phone. Do you know what screen they were using or web site they were using to purchase movie tickets? Thanks you for your insite. Djclay

Tuesday, July 22, 2008I started my Instinct at the same time u started both ur instinct and iphone 3G and mine loaded way faster than ur's did going to phonedog.com Plus I think once the updated and we get a new browser on the instinct it will murder the iphone load times on a full page site like espn.com just wait Noah u iphone fanboy.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008I have a lg voyager, Verizon,south Alabama,5k it said to fast (o.75s), 50k to fast (1.271s), 100k still to fast (1.68s)

Sunday, July 20, 2008Hey Noah, are features like Weather, Stocks, and GPS etc, always on in a sense they are constantly downloading new information, or do they only downloading it when you click on the app?

Sunday, July 20, 2008 Iowa City, IA, Bon Aire area. Verizon Wireless EVDO on a Rev 0 aircard (these max at 144kbps up, unlike RevA cards): 989kbps down, 117kbps up. This is at like 2AM, but I have gkrellm running all the time, and get around 800kbps during the day too.. at my house. Towards downtown, it's more like 200-300kbps.. better than 1X but not really good for the odd youtube video.