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hey guys its Jill from pocketnow.com with another speed face off this time it's 1 gigahertz vs 1 gigahertz so what's faster the HTC Desire HD or the t-mobile mytouch 4G let's go take a look ok guys so here we go we've got a quadrant standard running on both devices and I'm going to try and start them both at the same time they both have been recently factory reset so I don't have too much stuff loading up and causing problems now I do have gmail which is pulling in stuff I am connected to Wi-Fi on both of them but I've got as clean a boot as i can get at this point and we'll see which one's faster so let's go ahead and start them now again these are both running 1 gigahertz processors of course the desire HD has a much larger screen which generally means that the graphics processing in this device has to run all that much harder because it's got to output a lot more pixels than does the mytouch 4G so we should see the 4g running a little bit faster because it's a lot it's got less graphical data that it has to process and push out to the screen now that's just my initial impression and it sounds logical but we'll see once the results come in which one of these two is really the faster device over here we getting 57 58 frames per second versus 59 over here so a little bit better graphics 18 19 verses 19 20 so a little bit higher resolution on this side as well they both finish about the same time the mytouch 4G coming in at 1720 but overhear the desire HD coming in at 18 18 so even though you've got more graphics pumping out to this screen this device comes in just a little bit faster now of course we don't want to run it just one time we want to run through a second time so I'm going to go ahead and do that and we'll see what the results are I'll do that off camera so you don't have to watch because the tests are the same but will come right after the break and see exactly which one is faster all right now this time they both ran through a little bit quicker over here on the mytouch 4G the score is 1968 whereas the desire HD is 2025 both very respectable speeds but it's very obvious just by running these tests back to back why you want to make sure that you went through a few tests so that tells me that even though it's got a bigger screen the desire HD is a little bit faster device fast enough for you to notice probably not now i do want to mention that this is running the latest over-the-air update that came out today the desire HD is the mytouch 4G hasn't gotten an update since i've received it but this one just did receive one today so i don't know if that's going to make any difference or not but both very respectable devices now the next test that we want to run of course is networking how fast can this communicate across a network unfortunately the desire HD is only going to get edge speeds so we're not going to test that instead what we're going to do is test the Wi-Fi connection speeds to see which one is better there and we're going to do it at the same time which may impact our results just a little bit will use speedtest net which is a free app available in the market and let's go ahead and set that up ok so again both of these are running speedtest.net the same version they're both wired up to the same 802 11 and wireless access point and they are both set to return results in kilobits per second and let's show you on this one as well they're set to get the the test from the same server in Salt Lake City Utah so tried to equalize this as much as I can let's go ahead in full disclosure this one is about that far not that much closer to the wireless antenna then is the desire HD but that shouldn't have that big a difference so let's go ahead and run the test and see how they do now that the internet connection here is over comcast net cable modem the ping rate is 47 on this one 61 on that one which should be about the same download speed is 10.8 megabits per second versus 6,400 kilobits per second up what speeds are about the same let's go ahead and test it again again we want to make sure that we in fact let's move the positions just in case that couple inches makes a big difference go ahead and test these again I tap the desire HD a little bit afterwards so it'll be a little bit behind pings a little bit higher over here just shy of 300 milliseconds versus 47 sometimes that will happen with network congestion and whatnot but we've got 4.3 megabits per second over here and 10.7 over here so very obviously some differences let's run the third time independent and i'll leave the results up on the screen for comparison ping time at 60 milliseconds which is very respectable download speed looks like it's going to come in somewhere around eight megabits per second upload speed right around four megabits per second so very respectable over Wi-Fi go ahead and test this one ping rates a little bit higher again 319 download speed is 7.6 megabit per second which is just about the same as the eight megabit that we got on the other one and upload speed just shy of four megabits so show those to you again ping rates a little bit higher on the mytouch 4G for some reason that's probably just I don't know a little bit coincidental line ping rates can vary for many many reasons but overall the speeds are about the same on both devices again over Wi-Fi again why am I not showing you over wireless well if I switch off my Wi-Fi on this phone fact let me go ahead and do that so we'll go back home and we will not into the apt we're into settings and I'll just toggle Wi-Fi go back over here and let's go ahead and launch speed test again and we'll do the same thing on this side go home go to menu go to settings wireless turn off Wi-Fi you'll back home well first of all it's not going to work because I don't have a sim in this device I'll go fix that but I've got HSPA over here all right so I took my other sim and I popped it inside the desire HD and you notice up here I'm on an edge connection versus an HSPA connection so there's very obviously going to be a difference in speeds how much let's go ahead and take a look begin the test ping over here is 277 milliseconds which is a little on the high side but still not terrible over on the mytouch 4G it's having a little bit of a hard time doing this we'll go ahead and run a test after the fact download speeds 147 kilobits per second upload speed over here is going to be a bit better than that I hope find out 71 kilobits now this is why i'm reporting speeds in kilobits so you can very obviously see the difference in speed now over on the mytouch 4G I'm getting 2129 kilobits per second down my ping rate ended up being one hundred three milliseconds and my upload speed at 1239 so very obviously a difference now is that a big deal well if you're in the United States absolutely that's a big deal that HTC Desire HD is in the European phone and it will also work really well in not in and around Asia if you're going to be doing a lot of data you probably don't want this phone in the United States with tmobile which both of these are using the t-mobile network with t-mobile you're only going to get edge data connections over in fact I've seen it fall down to GPRS a few times using AT&T because of the bands in the phone you're also limited to edge and GPRS so not that great for data then again if you're in a place where you're covered by Wi-Fi quite a bit you're probably going to be just fine email and and web surfing are okay over edge I mean not long ago that's all that we had and it'll do it'll get you by but very obviously there's a big difference in speed between 3g and edge now this is i mentioned 3g this phone is capable of what t-mobile is calling for g their hspa+ network you can see right there we almost doubled our speed up to 3904 whereas we're still over here at 149 kilobits per second a big difference in an overall backbone and speed now it's it's interesting to see that these are both the same carrier so we're seeing you know pretty much the same results when we have when we have a 4g to a 4g phone like the g2 but when we come back here to edge you know we're still getting some respectable speeds again if you're in the US and you need high-speed wireless you probably aren't going to go with the desire HD if you are in Asia or if you are in anywhere in Europe this is probably the phone that you are going to love in addition to the large screen compared to some of the other devices you should just have a beautiful form factor neither one of these have hardware keyboards they're both just you know just regular devices small slate in this case but very very nice phones so there's our speed test one thing that I'd like to say before I do away with the desire HD this has been one of the funnest phones that I have ever tested the screen is huge on Wi-Fi the performance is astounding you guys over in Asia and Europe are going to love the 3g speeds whereas guys over in the US not so much it'll get you by it'll do what you need to do but I want to give a big shout out to clove dot u K or excuse me clove technologies and their website again is clove co uk obviously out of the united kingdom they are the ones that provided us with this demo unit and a very big thank you goes out to them if you are interested in getting unlocked phones make sure you take a look at them if you are over there across the pond look at these guys they've been very helpful and very patient in our review of the unit so again showing off the speeds of the mytouch 4G upside down or right side up and the HTC Desire HD I'm Joe for pocketnow.com