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), so 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]
Republished from Gizmodo
Spinner
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 8:16 AMTurns out the tests were done in a custom iPhone app rather than Mobile Safari, hence missing out on the Nitro speed boost.
Most places who ran this story have already added a note or corrected the article, you should do the same.
Xavwar
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 9:46 AMThere is another post on there website that states they used Custom software on both operatings systems to invoke the native browsers so it did use the Mobile Safari/Android Native Browser
Scootah
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:04 PMYeah no. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, applied updates to the Safari browser, which dramatically improved speed, but haven’t implemented that updated performance for the application invokable browser component. So Apps calling out to the web run at substantially slower speeds than Safari. So much slower that if performed side by side, someone with very good eyesight who’s concentrating really hard – might even notice.
Joe King
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:40 AMAgreed – it is physically impossible that any mobile web browser could be faster than Safari on the iPhone 4, utilising the Nitro speed boost.
Obviously Blaze have hidden interest in Android, and are just iPhone/Apple bashing…
Honestly, get over it – Apple still lead the way in, well, everything…
Jacob
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:54 PMJoe King
March 18, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Honestly, get over it – Apple still lead the way in, well, everything…
The only thing Apple are leading is the reversal of technology, that and homosexuality.
Bernhard de Kok
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:39 AMYes, please update this article as it is reporting flawed info.
Blaze used their own 3rd party app which uses an older embedded browser to automate their tests. They didn’t use the new safari with the nitro engine, improved cache and threaded enhancements.
Let’s have a browser vs browser test please.
Daniel Willis
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:32 AMPhysically impossible? Get over it? Hidden agendas? At least this article ‘aimed’ to provide valid information. Your response is the one full of wild assumptions.
Ben Ralph
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2:22 PMWhat are all us Android folks going to use our extra 1.1 seconds on? I’m thinking a good and revitalising blink, haven’t done that in well…..
DAL32
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 9:13 PMI like the longer lines as they remind me of big penises which I love very, very much.