Best mobile browser: iPhone 3G vs. Archos 5 vs. Nokia N810
Filed under: Computers, Portable Computers & Tablets | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 18, 2008 | 4 Comments
If you had to make a choice as to what is the best mobile internet browser, there are a few to choose from. Firstly you have the Apple iPhone 3G; secondly you have the Nokia N810, and finally the Archos 5.
In a number of tests, it showed that the Archos 5 came out on top, thanks to the Internet Media Tablet’s ARM Cortex A8 processor. The tablet runs on the Opera 9 browser, this gives the Archos 5 a great browsing experience for the user.
We do not want to take anything away from the Nokia N810 as well as the iPhone, but Apple have certainly come up with something special, as the iPhone is not jusy a mobile browser, but also a cell phone and a iPod also.
Make your choice now; will it be the iPhone 3G, Archos 5, or the Nokia N810?
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I would love to buy 1 of those Archos or Nokia devices… which ones have:
Built-in wi-fi that runs faster than the iPhone’s?
Which phone opens Word, Excel and PDF file attachments?
Weigh less than 5 ounces?
Which of them are thinner than iPhone at 0.5″?
Which can I install more than 3,000 different apps into?
Which can I write my own code for?
Which phone has more than 8-16 BILLION bytes of ram? (Without buying extra mem cards)
Which have a better/faster browser than Safari?
Which have 100 accessories that I can buy at stores all over the world?
Which phones cost less than the iPhone’s $199?
Which have multi-touch screens bigger than 3.5″?
Which phone sells more than 1 million units… just in the 1st weekend?
Which phone has more than 3 GPS methods? (Cell, satellite, wi-fi.)
Which phone gives you high-speed, UNLIMITED data for under $30/month?
Which phone has more than 25,000 developers writing apps for it?
Which phone can I buy in more than 62 countries?
Which screens are sharper than 163 pixels/inch?
Which phone quickly sold 10,000,000 phones?
Which screens can display more than 16 million colors?
Which has a built-in battery that last 5-10 hours of continuous talk-time?
Which phones let me leave 5000 songs on my home computer, but still play them on my phone from anywhere in the world?
Which phone let’s me listen to more than 1,000 free radio stations, even though it has no radio in it?
Which phone can play 50,000,000 movies/videos/TV shows, without storing any of them in the phone itself?
Which phone can make free voice-calls over wi-fi, all over the world?
The Nokia N810 running the Firefox ‘Fennec’ browser provides a much better user experience than either the iPhone 3G or Archos 5. And if you happened to be in a city offering WiMAX coverage (perhaps soon coming to your area?), the experience of the N810 WiMAX Edition (which also includes WiFi) blows away any device offering 3G and/or WiFi only.
I’d challenge anyone to put all three side-by-side and to make their own conclusion. The N810 rocks and the N810 WiMAX Edition with Firefox ‘Fennec’ is uber beast. And the company hasn’t paid me anything to offer my opinion. :O)
The interesting thing is that all of these device are based on ARM technology, and not x86 as Intel tells the world that the “internet was designed for them”!
I think the beauty of all these examples is that it shows consumers have a wide variety of choice and they can be passionate about the models that suit them best. You can also see this over the past 10 years. Does your laptop really do much more or even look different than in 1998? What about your phone that was voice only.
The innovation and momentum that will drive this mobile computing revolution will come from products based on low-power ARM technology with multiple suppliers and a wide range of innovations that can provide an all-day user experience, not from an Intel-based cookie-cutter design that will only run for 1-2 hours.
Also, the N810 is based on the TI OMAP2 processor, and the 3G iPhone uses similar, older ARM11 technology. Just think what it could do if used the latest OMAP3 processor based on ARM Cortex-A8 technology (it is in Archos 5). You would get another 3x boost in performance to enable even more innovation in a low-power device.
The mobile computing revolution as begun…
I think someone may be a bit confused (and perhaps drinking a little bit too much coolaid). Neither the Archos, nor the N810 are phones. The iPhone, of course is.
If you are wanting to compare phones, Nokia has a product called the N95, HTC has a product called the Diamond Pro, and Samsung (no, I wasn’t going to mention the Instinct)… interesting to note, however, that the Blackberry Curve is outselling the iPhone 3:1. what’s that about?