If you take the Pre as the "accepted" value, it's a 16.65% difference. With the iPhone as the "accepted" value, it's a 19.99% difference. If you use the proper percent difference formula (difference / average), it's 18.16% faster. Any way you look at, it is neither 11% nor 21%, though 21% is certainly closer. Interestingly enough, it is a ~21 second difference in total times. Absolute difference is NOT relative difference, which is what matters in these situations. Bad math, indeed. Bad anandtech for posting it, and bad engadget mobile for not bothering to even verify it.

While the iPhone is faster, I find it interesting that 1.0 software on 1.0 hardware can match up even that equally to 3.0 hardware with 3.0 software. I think this speaks volumes about the potential of the Pre, given the likelihood of future optimization. And this will likely spur further optimization of the iPhone software as well. So it's a win/win, regardless of which camp you support.

Well, I was basing it on the logo picture that was seen here and in a few other news articles, which has no characters in it. But Andrew S. is in fact correct. My mistake.

It's also the pinyin for "I". And in context, can mean "me". So I think it makes sense. And in case you didn't know, pinyin is the typing system used for mandarin chinese.