Study Claims Android Brower Is Faster Than iPhone Browser; But It’s Flawed
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Study Claims Android Brower Is Faster Than iPhone Browser; But It’s Flawed
Folks at Blaze Software, a web performance company published a report earlier today claiming that Android browser is faster than iPhone’s Safari browser.
They came to this conclusion after loading 45,000 web pages from 1000 websites over 3G and Wi-Fi on Android smartphone, Samsung's Nexus S and Apple’s iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3.
Blaze Software initially reported:
The results surprised us.
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lol i agree with Jared, if a second is a huge thing to u then yea ur priorities are flawed greatly. and i also agree that the test is flawed if it wasnt really testing the browser but an embedded version of it. but really it doesnt matter much to me because the browser never loads fast enough if its something you really want to read or see.
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Wow really? A whole second faster? Let the android fans rejoice and the apple flaming begin.It's all about the end user experience, not tech specs and millisecond speed tests.
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what apple should do is make sure the embeded web viewer contains the safari optimizations... sheesh.still tho, good heads up for those of us wondering.
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First Can't believe that!
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It takes more than 15secs to load the Blaze Software website http://www.blaze.io/ on my smart phone running android 2.2 :(
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Just another company using Apple's name to get publicity. Regardless of their results, mobile web browsing is just slow over all compared to a home pc. That extra second isn't gonna kill anyone. Besides, I can usually start reading a page on my iphone before it's fully loaded.
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I've seen these comparisons on YouTube. When they're loading, the load bar on the android device "finishes" before the iPhone. But the actual content is still loading by the time the iPhone is done. They're going off the load bar and not actual content. Keep trying android. It's hilarious...
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Check the spelling of the title "Brower"?
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Lol. Good eye
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Browserspeed is just one of the advantages of Android ;-)I'm an iPhone user now but this will change......I'm heading for the Samsung Galaxy S2 ;-)
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I need a new phone it took 18 seconds to load the android only took 17.5 seconds what kind of junk is apple selling here
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it is funny, when apple comes on top by 0.00001 ms, it is fantastic news, and everyone chants "apple is amazing", when they don't, they chant "get a life it is not important"
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300% true
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Everytime I see ANY, ANY ANY performance comparison over 3G i automaticaly discard the comparison. Cellular network are so variable that you can't take it seriously. What has happened to REAL statistical, testing? You do that testing in house, on a segregated network with a dedicated web server. I am with the guy that said they just want publicity
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What a nonsense study this is.
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Wait... so a study done on 3G networks which cellular companies control and also the speed and connection is different on each device and area...I develop software and a test like this would make me a laughing stock at the work X_XA test that isn't 100% from 1 test to another is not a properly planned test for god sakes!If you can't have the same settings, data, coverage, area, also I'm guessing hardware from this review, the test is blatantly biased. If it's the hardware for comparison, why is software taken into account? If it's software, then why is hardware changed completely as well?If it's both, then what is the constant that can make them test only the browser without interference etc from outside factors?I don't think these tests mean anything. Speed tests based on hardware sure. But it has not been mentioned until after apple released optimizations which leads me to believe it's comparing because of the newer firmware, in which case the hardware should be the same, and perhaps use iDroid or similar to run Android OFF the iPhone itself to compare.
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Hey WTF! I just through my iphone and it took 2 seconds to accomplish that! Then I through my Android phone and it took 1.9 seconds to accomplish that! Damn it, that means my Android MUST be lighter then my iphone! I know! Lets through my blackberry! ;-)
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True! I agree!
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Iphonehacks, you might want to change the title... I'm not familiar with the "Android Brower"...
