New 16GB iPhones Faster than 8GB Model?

A friend of mine is telling me that the new 16GB iPhones are faster than the “old” 8GB iPhones. I havn't found any proof of that and thought I would post the question here. I just picked up a new iPhone a few weeks ago and the store didn’t have the 16GB model yet. My iTunes library is small enough to fit on the 8GB so I went with it. Is it true that there is something more than just a larger hard drive in the new 16GB iPhone?

Nope. Specs are the same aside from storage.

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