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hey guys John retina TechnoBuffalo here and welcome to round two of the Nexus One versus the iPhone 3GS two of the arguably hottest smartphones on the market right now in the last edition we covered a ton of categories in this one we're going to cover network speed on t-mobile 3G service and AT&T 3G service as well as camera quality both still and video let's go ahead and get started let me preface this with saying that network speed is going to vary depending on where you are I'm currently in Southern California this is representative of just a Southern California market actual speeds and they vary depending on where you're located so I've got five bars of t-mobile 3G on the Nexus One and five bars of 18 G 3G on the iPhone 3GS let's load up some web pages and these are sites that have been loaded on the devices before so be representative of the load speed that you'll get from websites that you visit on a regular basis so go ahead and keep both of these up and we'll load TechnoBuffalo comm and in the last test we ran Wi-Fi speeds you saw the Nexus One was a bit fast from curious how it's gonna translate over cellular networks give low fees ready to go alright guy TechnoBuffalo queued up on each let's go ahead and get started should I hit him at the same time and we're off you can follow the progress via the yellow bar top on the Nexus One or the blue bar in the address box of the iPhone 3GS you look both to be pretty similar the iPhones explain content first both are almost exactly the same now and the iphone 3gs is done and the Nexus One finished just a second or two after that so they were both pretty close but the iPhone definitely won although not by much okay so now we're going to travel it up another webpage we're gonna load up my youtube channel youtube.com slash John for Lakers a lot of images on there so may take a little bit longer to load let's go ahead and check it out get him started at the same time and they're both off and again this is on t-mobile's 3G for the Nexus One and 18 T's 3G for the iPhone 3GS it's like the Nexus One it's already done and the iPhone 3GS is still taking its time to load the site and now it's done so there the Nexus One had a very clear advantage loading TechnoBuffalo the iPhone barely won by loading the YouTube channel the Nexus One won handily in about seven of the ten pages I tested the Nexus One loaded them up significantly faster so I wanted to see if that was due to a faster t-mobile network or perhaps that could be attributed to the faster processor let's go ahead and check it out so I ran these tests a little bit earlier over the t-mobile 3G network I averaged just about 304 kilobits per second and on AT&T 3G network I was getting over 600 kilobits per second so almost twice as fast but that increased network speed wasn't translating to faster load times so I have to attribute it to the Brody upgraded hardware that's ramming the Nexus One it's got a 400 megahertz faster processor and the ramen ramen it is quite fast and a pretty ample so I think that's really the difference between it behind the Nexus ones increased load times next generation iPhone perhaps a faster processor the parody might not be there but certainly right now the Nexus One due to its better Hardware loads webpage is much quicker now let's go ahead and take a look at camera quality both still and video of the two devices the Nexus One shoots 720 by 480 with 20 frames per second whereas the iPhone shoots at VGA resolution up to 30 frames per second these were shot at exactly the same time at a on exactly the same subjects you get a very fair comparison which quality you prefer I wanted to show you some highlights situations as well so you can get a sense of what it looked like in that particular environment we're gonna take a look now at some still images using the Nexus ones five megapixel sensor versus the iPhone 3GS is 3.2 and you guys can be the judge which one you prefer