dan@sprint.com response I got

[orangekid]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

DUDE, YES. THIS RIGHT HERE. Not only is it the CPU, Android also just does it faster, for whatever reason. My gf's Hero renders pages faster on the stock Android browser than on the Opera browser for WM...and she has worse specs on her phone.

I saw a video on Engadget today of a N1 next to the new LG Ally (600MHz CPU) loading Engadget's full site, both on Wi-Fi, and the N1 loaded it in less than 20 seconds while the Ally took over 60 seconds. That extra 40 seconds is ridiculous, especially when you see the video and you're waiting for the Ally to finish.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/lg-ally-review/

The Ally probably could download it as fast as the N1 could, but the limitations in the RAM and CPU made it take so much longer to load. This is what we're to expect from the EVO...a much better browsing experience, which will lead us (at least me) to much more data consumption.

I don't buy that. My HD2 with opera 10 loads pages just as fast as my girl's Nexus1 (both on tmobile 3G at the same location). The snapdragon DOES make a difference, the pro2 takes FOREVER to load web pages because the processor under-performs horrendously.

Androids also use more data because the widgets on the home screen are constantly refreshing and on winmo really the only thing refreshing is the weather screen. On my mytouch I have baseball/basketball/football scores updating constantly, 2 weather widgets, urban dictionary widget updating all the time, some wallpapers that download data, and I guarantee I use a crapload more data when I'm rocking Android.

When the iPhone 4G (4th generation) drops with an A4 chip and insane-ular specs I bet people consume way more data than they have been on the 3G/3GS models even without LTE, so I can only imagine how much data people are going to consume when Wimax/LTE coverage is pretty good.