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iPhone Safari Different Than iPod Touch Safari

I played with the iPod touch for a week, during that time I spent over 10 hours on the web. I tested different websites like Google, Google Reader, Gmail, Soonr.com, Popcat.com, etc. I surfed and tested Twitter, MySpace, among other sites. Between yesterday and today I’ve been doing the same thing with the iPhone and found out that Safari behaves differently on each device.

Lets clarify something, I understand that both devices are different, one is a phone and the other one is an iPod. One would think that they have the same applications installed, but even if they are the same they don’t behave alike. For the most part the Safari on the iPhone behaves like a mobile device, on the other hand it behaves like a regular browser on the iPod.

Whenever I surfed to Google the iPod would bring my iGoogle site the same way I see it on my computer. In the iPhone it goes directly to the mobile version of Google.com. I guess that since the iPhone could be working off the Edge network and the iPod touch not, this is a good thing since the iPhone would seem sluggish opening a full version of a website off of the Edge network.

Same thing happened with websites like Twitter.com, when I try to access them they would show up in their mobile version, even when connected to the Internet via WiFi. I’m not complaining about this, in fact I think this is a good idea. Websites load faster and that is very important if you are on the go, as for other functionality they both work the same, I haven’t notice any other differences.

The only thing I miss about the iPod touch is the icons layout, of course with the many software the iPhone has is impossible to have them layout the same. I wonder if in the future we will have the ability of changing or re-organizing the icon in the “Home” screen. Share your experiences with the community, give us your opinion on this matter. Thanks for reading.