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Apple's Deceptive iPhone Ads, Part 3: New Software Faster But Ads Still Misleading

iphone-turtle.jpgThe last in our current series on Apple's deceptive 3G iPhone ads, in which Apple purports to demonstrate "What exactly is 3G" and shows a blazing-fast phone that apparently bears little resemblance to the ones you can buy in the real world.

Boston's Rob Reed, who put together the previous test videos, has now added a third. This latest one tests the 3G iPhone running Apple's new faster software upgrade, firmware version 2.1 (see video below).

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Conclusions:

  • Firmware 2.1 makes the phone run 11% faster than the previous version.
  • The phone in the ad is still 3.5X faster than the one in the real world.

 

See Also:
Hey, Apple and Steve Jobs, What's With The Deceptive iPhone Ads? (75+ comments)
Apple's Deceptive 3G iPhone Ads, Part 2: The New Tests

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