News · 22 Jun 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Don’t you love meaningless comparisons? So the buzz earlier today was that, Oh My God, Apple has improved HTML5 rendering in Safari in iOS5 Beta apparently making it faster than the Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta (notice “Beta” word?). Amazing, right ? Who would have thought that Apple would improve it’s product ? (/sarcasm) Well, The Next Web decided to actually do some testing with a Samsung Focus pre-loaded with Mango (thanks again Microsoft) running the Seed reading test of the IE9 Mobile Test Drive site and found out that…it’s not entirely true…
The answer is no. After running the test roughly 30 times, I’ve seen IE Mobile 9 run no slower than 25, and as high as 45 frames per second. We ran the iOS 5 test here at TNW several more times, and never managed to have a final score over 32. Now, if 31 or 32 beating 25 was news, certainly the fact that IE Mobile 9 can perform at over 40 is news as well.
So the score fluctuated depending on the number of services and apps running in the background. So what did we learn today ? Not much. Especially when you keep in mind that we are comparing to Beta products running on vastly different hardware (the iPhone 4 is vastly more powerful than any of the current Windows Phone 7 handsets). Linkbait stories for the win…or not.
via: TNW
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