No Anand love for Android?

[deputc26]

I was really hoping for an Anandtech review of either Droid or Nexus One but Droid probably won't be happening and I've heard nothing on the Nexus One either. Anyone hear rumors of a planned review or seen a quality Nexus One review that involves actual testing instead of just comparing specs and a lot of subjective opinion?

 

[zerocool84]

There's a review posted in this forums section.

 

[deputc26]

There's a review posted in this forums section.

From the OP: "review that involves actual testing instead of just comparing specs and a lot of subjective opinion"

That particular reviewer did do *some* testing but only gave one actual number, the average 3g download speed, but failed to give anything (iPhone, Droid) to compare that number to.

 

[zerocool84]

From the OP: "review that involves actual testing instead of just comparing specs and a lot of subjective opinion"

That particular reviewer did do *some* testing but only gave one actual number, the average 3g download speed, but failed to give anything (iPhone, Droid) to compare that number to.

Well they had a little video of loading up a site on each phone which gives you an overview of how it should download things compared to it's competition.

 

[deputc26]

Yah the videos *were* helpful but they only loaded one website, most of the chatter I'm hearing has the web-page loading speed rank being 1st. Nexus 2nd. iPhone 3gs 3rd. Droid but the iPhone destroys the Android handsets in this test making me suspect it isn't accurately representative of general performance. To be fair it is testing... but not conclusive testing.

 

[zerocool84]

Yah the videos *were* helpful but they only loaded one website, most of the chatter I'm hearing has the web-page loading speed rank being 1st. Nexus 2nd. iPhone 3gs 3rd. Droid but the iPhone destroys the Android handsets in this test making me suspect it isn't accurately representative of general performance. To be fair it is testing... but not conclusive testing.

Why would anyone put any Android phone above the iPhone? The only phone that competes with the iPhone in browser speed is the Pre. No other phone, including the Nexus will load pages faster guaranteed. It has nothing to do with hardware, it's restrictions of the OS itself.

 

[deputc26]

Why would anyone put any Android phone above the iPhone? The only phone that competes with the iPhone in browser speed is the Pre. No other phone, including the Nexus will load pages faster guaranteed. It has nothing to do with hardware, it's restrictions of the OS itself.

Restrictions of the OS? not true.

From Gizmodo

"When comparing the three phones in loading a webpage over Wi-Fi, the Nexus One loaded first, the iPhone 3GS came in a few seconds later, and the Droid came in a little while after that. This was constant throughout many webpage loads."

From Barron's

"The Nexus One proved to be slightly faster than the iPhone when loading a Web page, on the order of 10 to 15 seconds."

From PhonesReview

"the handset loads pages even faster than the iPhone 3GS and the Motorola Droid."


However I won't feel like I know for sure until I see actual numbers from multiple websites.

Edit: hold on

Why would anyone put any Android phone above the iPhone?

Do I really need to answer this?

 

[Demo24]

Why would anyone put any Android phone above the iPhone? The only phone that competes with the iPhone in browser speed is the Pre. No other phone, including the Nexus will load pages faster guaranteed. It has nothing to do with hardware, it's restrictions of the OS itself.

Are you talking about the engadget video? The problem with that is Engadget has one of the most poorly coded sites out there. On Mac's I get script errors, on windows it will freeze other browser items until it refreshes. Whatever they did with the site redesign, they screwed up and haven't fixed it yet. So it's not surprising that it messes with phones, although they didn't mention that you can scroll the content just fine without those extra ads on the side.

 

[rudeguy]

Why would anyone put any Android phone above the iPhone? The only phone that competes with the iPhone in browser speed is the Pre. No other phone, including the Nexus will load pages faster guaranteed. It has nothing to do with hardware, it's restrictions of the OS itself.

really? Links? Facts?