The YouTube on iPhone Speed Test
We weren’t looking to make an Apple commercial, we promise! But while goofing around on Friday we decided to test a first-generation iPhone’s speed at accessing and loading a YouTube video against one of the new ones released yesterday. For the tests, we turned both phones’ Wi-Fi off. The result? Ten seconds to load a video on the new 3G network and 20 seconds on EDGE. OK, so 10 seconds isn’t fantastic, but the old version really is twice as bad. So much so that 3G iPhone users might even consider watching video on the fly.
“Hit Me on My iPhone” used with permission. Thanks to Craig, Chancey, and Brittany.
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.
and you can watch this video on the iPhone/iTouch.
The Avot Media video transcoder allows videos to startup twice as fast as the native YouTube app! To Liz’s point, user’s expect instant startup. With Avot technology, that’s what they get. See demo:
http://avot.tv/corp/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=48
Go to http://www.avotmedia.com for more info.
Liz, How many “bytes” was in the Youtube video download? Is there a limit on the bytes you can download/upload per month in your agreement?