If there's something wrong with my gear, there's been something wrong with all 5 iPhones I've ever had. If there's something wrong with my network, there's been something wrong with it throughout all the changes Ive made, oh, and every other network I've ever used too has been messed up. And Anand's networks too, plus he also has to have no idea what he's talking about when he keeps measuring web page loading performance on SoCs.
It might be the case that it just feels fast enough to you guys so it's no big deal and you dont see what I'm talking about. It's definitely acceptable performance...it's just not great, plenty of room for improvement...and that's all I want from an iPad 3.
I think webpage loading is more a general measurement to get people who don't really know that much about SoCs to "see" the speed difference. You obviously can't shove pretty 3D graphics in their faces and tell them that that makes the phone faster. It doesn't work that way.
While I definitely can see room for improvement, all I'm saying is that it's not as much as you are making it out to be, or at least I am not seeing it. Anand's tests were usually conducted with the browser cache being completely cleared, which is pretty unrealistic because I don't clear my browser cache every time I go to Anandtech's front page on my phone.
Also, if you'd just read his words again, he clearly stated that the best case scenario had the 4S at just 2s faster than the 4 loading Anandtech's front page. They were much closer subsequently (7s vs 8s). So there was still some bottleneck going on there.
Like I said, my test results showed that my iPhone 4 could consistently render Anandtech's front page within 4s without clearing the cache. Based on your results (around 4s on the 4S), I'd say that Anand's also agreeing with me that the browser loading test doesn't show much difference.
This translates directly into faster page load times. As you can see in the video below, the iPhone 4S (left) loads the AnandTech front page over WiFi in about 5 seconds compared to 9 seconds on the iPhone 4 (right). That's really the best case scenario, the improvement in the next page load time was only about a second (7s vs 8s).
In case you skipped over it.
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