Browsing on Android (not?) faster than iPhone – Update
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
More on the smartphone wars.
UPDATE: Reported by CNET, Android beats iPhone on browser speed–or not, and on The Loop, Jim Dalrymple reported that at Apple the researchers used an embedded vs. the official browser.
The wars continue.
Original post:
According to an article in today’s ReadWriteWeb by Audrey Watters, it was reported that browsing on the Android smartphone is 50% faster than on an iPhone.
From the article:
Much attention in the battle between Android and iPhone goes to the availability of apps on each platform. But one of the most important feature of a smartphone might not be the availability and performance of native apps but the performance of the mobile Web browser.
According to a study released today by the Web optimization company Blaze, this is a big win in the Android column. The company analyzed 45,000 page load speeds to find that Android’s browser is 52% faster the iPhones. Furthermore, Android’s Chrome browser beat iPhone’s Safari browser by loading 84% of websites faster.
Tags: Android
