iPhone 4: Faster Than iPhone 3GS, Possibly Slower Than iPad

[Sb.Snickerz]

But then again they share the same processor and the iphone has twice the ram. I believe the reason is that apple turned down the clock speed on the iphone 4 to save battery. While the ipad has such a huge battery and extra space inside that they clocked it much higher and its able to deal with the increased heat and power drain without issues.

exactly... i dont think people are realizing that they did clock the 1ghz cpu on the iphone 4 down to 850 mhz to conserve battery life

while the ipad probably has a much bigger battery and for the most part doesnt have a battery consuming task like phone calls, they kept the power of the cpu

[robertr1]

Don't worry I'm sure someone will eventually figure out a way to make the iphone 4 use all of it's available power that apple isn't letting it use...