The browser in Google’s Android mobile operating system is more than 50 percent faster than the browser found in Apple’s iOS, according to company Blaze.io. Blaze tested the embedded browsers in Android 2.3 and iOS 4.3. These were WebView and UIWebView, respectively. The tests were conducted against websites of Fortune 1,000 corporations. Also among Blaze’s findings is that although both Google and Apple claim they’ve sped up JavaScript in Android 2.3 and the browser in iOS 4.3, respectively, it had no impact on browser speed.
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Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 18, 2011 05:00 AMThe browser in Google’s Android mobile operating system is more than 50 percent faster than the browser found in Apple’s iOS, according to company Blaze.io. Blaze tested the embedded browsers in Android 2.3 and iOS 4.3. These were WebView and UIWebView, respectively. The tests were conducted against websites of Fortune 1,000 corporations. Also among Blaze’s findings is that although both Google and Apple claim they’ve sped up JavaScript in Android 2.3 and the browser in iOS 4.3, respectively, it had no impact on browser speed.