Also interesting: the much ballyhooed JavaScript speed improvements in iOS 4.3 and Android 2.3 don’t actually make their browser load websites any faster. There was actually a slight dip in load times between iOS 4.3 and 4.2 (3.25 seconds vs 3.18 seconds on iPhone 4.2) and only a modest gain in Android 2.3 vs 2.2 (2.14 seconds vs 2.37 seconds in Android 2.2), it seems that the JavaScript improvements shine more in benchmarks than actual application.
Blaze Software conducted their test with an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3 and a Google Nexus S running Android 2.3. Tests were performed over Wi-Fi. Learn more about their methodology at Blaze. [Blaze]
Joe King
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:56 AMThis is obviously an inaccurate test, given the iPhone 4 has a much higher resolution than any Android device, the iPhone is going to take longer to render.
If you time how long it takes to render an equivalent number of pixels, you will find the iPhone 4 is about twice as fast as any Android device.
Harvz
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 8:55 AMhaha your funny
olearymo
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 9:50 AMTranslation:
“This is obviously an inaccurate test, iPhones are made by Apple.”
Kris
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:01 AMI have an iPhone, and mobile safari is garbage.
Bernhard de Kok
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:11 AMBullshit test.
Blaze used their own 3rd party app with its own embedded browser. They didn’t use the new Safari browser with the new nitro engine, and the new caching and multithreading changes.
Embedded browsers in iOS use an older engine.
matt
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:58 AMAndroid must be faster because it gives you the option to use flash!
no.. wait…
what?
oh that’s right… Jobs was just full of shit. like usual.