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Nexus S Beats iPhone 4 In 'Real World' Web Browsing Tests

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-but-those-are-only-real-world-results dept.

bongey writes "In a series of measured real-world web load tests, the Android-based Nexus S phone spanked the iPhone 4. The Android phone and iPhone 4 median load times were 2.144s and 3.254s respectively. The sample size was 45,000 page loads, across 1000 web sites. It also follows rumors that Apple is intentionally slowing down web apps to make their native apps more favorable."

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  1. Bogus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They were using a custom app. Not the default browser. So what they are saying is that their app runs faster on the Nexus S. Not that the Nexus S is faster then the iPhone.

  2. Apple/Oranges by beanball75 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Someone pointed out already that the way they tested is with apps that use the browser engine available to apps. As the second link says in the main story (probably, I'm too lazy to RTFA, I read others already), the iOS browser engine doesn't use the Nitro javascript engine.

    I found one link that discusses it, but I'm sure there are better ones:

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-tech/smart-phones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229301178