Mobile Web Wars: Android Lot Faster than iPhone

[cyb]

Web browsing plays a big factor when you’re all about using your phone for other than making phone calls, wouldn’t you say?

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[xambron]

I'm all about my full keyboard and making calls. If the phone has those features and gets decent service then I'm a happy clam.

 

[LuckyDucky7]

"Will this change your purchasing plans?"

Come on now.
If you want to be cool, no matter the cost, you choose the iPhone.

If you want something that can do more than the iPhone for less, then you choose Android.

Turns out that, as usual, the non-Apple device is faster. Reminds me of another famous debate...

So was it really a big surprise?

 

[cadder]

iphone browsing is very slow. I wasn't sure if that was ATT's fault or Apple's fault. Now maybe we find out it is Apple's fault.

 

[dallaswits]

I am loving my android phones and tablets, lol.

 

[Guest]

OMG! You mean hardware that was released a year ago is slower than phones that came out this month? Next you'll be telling me water is wet!

The #1 sign this test is bullshit is claiming that it's the iPhone vs. "Android". WTF platform qualifies as "Android"? I'm sure I could find a Chinese knockoff suck-phone that can't load web pages worth a damn, but I suspect they used something a bit faster...

 

[Guest]

this test was already outed as being invalid. They didn't test browser speeds. They tested third party app using browser plugins.

Either test the ACTUAL built in browser or don't even do a test. Shame on Tom's hardware for not vetting a flawed study before printing it. These kinds of stories actually invalidate the integrity of the site.

 

[joytech22]

[citation][nom]androidisnotonephone[/nom]OMG! You mean hardware that was released a year ago is slower than phones that came out this month? Next you'll be telling me water is wet!The #1 sign this test is bullshit is claiming that it's the iPhone vs. "Android". WTF platform qualifies as "Android"? I'm sure I could find a Chinese knockoff suck-phone that can't load web pages worth a damn, but I suspect they used something a bit faster...[/citation]

I had to quote your whole thing there, It seems you joined today just to nerdrage about the truth, iPhone 4 may be a year old but most Android devices have equivalent specifications.

If you we're to pay the same amount you can buy a iPhone 4 for, you could always buy a higher-end equivalent Android device.

 

[blueer03]

You aren't on Tom's Hardware, you are on Toms Guide; a news reporting site. The web address usually gives it away...

 

[Guest]

Switching to Android phones saves you 15 hours of your life after viewing 45,000 webpages. 1.2 secs saved times 45,000 = 54000 secs divided by 3600 seconds in an hour = 15 hours, so android ftw!

 

[ericburnby]

[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]Turns out that, as usual, the non-Apple device is faster. Reminds me of another famous debate...So was it really a big surprise?[/citation]

As usual? Guess you missed the ass-whooping the iPad 2 laid down on the Xoom just the other day. A fact fandroids don't seem to want to talk about.

 

[rrmyguy]

who cares..... buy what you like...... fanboys will always say theirs is better no matter what...... who stresses theirselves out over which PHONE connects to the internet faster??

 

[watcha]

'iPhone 4 may be a year old but most Android devices have equivalent specifications.

If you we're to pay the same amount you can buy a iPhone 4 for, you could always buy a higher-end equivalent Android device.'

Equivalent specifications? Excuse me? Firstly - are you claiming that in the year since the iPhone 4 was released, Android phones have only just matched its specifications? Seems in direct contradiction to what all the other apple-haters claim.

Secondly, wake up and realise that you can't directly compare phone specifications. It's the combination of the hardware and also the software which determines its performance. So your 'assertions' that you can get a 'higher end' or 'equivalent specification' phone is simply wrong.

Finally - it's an absolute nonsense to just ignore the fact that the iPhone4 is a year old, regardless of any claims about 'specifications'. To ignore the fact that the iPhone 4 is a year old is to claim that the performance of the iPhone 5 in web tests will not improve web browsing speeds. Which is, of course, ridiculous. This test either had to be carried out a year ago, with comparable device ages - or it has to wait and compare the android devices to the iPhone 5.

The current market of course has the choice right now of either the iPhone 4 or the newest Android devices - so in that respect it makes sense to compare - but don't confuse the current market with the technology from the companies as a whole. If you time any review of any product such that the competitor hasn't released their latest product yet, you can always reach misleading conclusions.

Whether the iPhone5 is slower or faster than Android devices of the time, is the real discussion. And I don't really care what the answer is. What I care about is idiots believing that this article is the answer to that.

 

[Guest]

Why are you guys all so hostile towards one another? Get a life... They are just cell phones

 

[mj4358]

http/arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/03/nexus-s-beats-iphone-in-real-world-web-tests-says-firm.ars
Please pay attention to the update at the bottom.......Sad that Tom would be so blatantly bias.

 

[watcha]

LOL - that is RIDICULOUS.

Here is the content of the update:

Update: It turns out that Blaze didn't actually use Safari in its tests on the iPhone; instead, Blaze used its own iOS app, which Apple points out does not make use of any JavaScript performance increases that came with iOS 4.3. Blaze told CNet in a statement that this is indeed true, so keep this in mind when reading the results.

Update 2: Apple sent us a full statement on the topic. "Their testing is flawed because they didn't actually test the Safari web browser on the iPhone. Instead they only tested their own proprietary app which uses an embedded web viewer that doesn't take advantage of Safari's web performance optimizations," Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told Ars. "Despite this fundamental testing flaw, they still only found an average of a second difference in loading web pages."

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]watcha[/nom]LOL - that is RIDICULOUS.Here is the content of the update:Update: It turns out that Blaze didn't actually use Safari in its tests on the iPhone; instead, Blaze used its own iOS app, which Apple points out does not make use of any JavaScript performance increases that came with iOS 4.3. Blaze told CNet in a statement that this is indeed true, so keep this in mind when reading the results.Update 2: Apple sent us a full statement on the topic. "Their testing is flawed because they didn't actually test the Safari web browser on the iPhone. Instead they only tested their own proprietary app which uses an embedded web viewer that doesn't take advantage of Safari's web performance optimizations," Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told Ars. "Despite this fundamental testing flaw, they still only found an average of a second difference in loading web pages."[/citation]


You can whine all day long, it will only make it wors, PR wise.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]You can whine all day long, it will only make it wors, PR wise.[/citation]

'Blaze told CNet in a statement that this is indeed true, so keep this in mind when reading the results'

I don't care about PR - I care about reality. The reality is that they didn't use Safari. That is an absolute fail, what a ridiculous test.

 

[nao1120]

Who cares if they didn't use safari or not - They should maybe compare firefox or chrome if those are version of browsers both devices can use. Google shouldn't even need to want to even think about using Safari. Its designed to be faster on mac and iOS platforms....

The bottom line, the devices perform faster in a web test. Done.

 

[thrasher32]

Hey wait, you're insulting the iPhone owners who PREFER slowness. No need to be in a big rush to get your data, just relax and it'll get there eventually.