Windows Phone Beats iPhone and Android in Browser Benchmark Test [Video]

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Posted April 14, 2011 at 2:10pm by iClarified

Windows Phone 7 running IE9 handily beat the iPhone and Android Nexus S in a HTML5 speed reading test. The test was performed by Joe Belfiore, Director of the Windows Phone program at the MIX11 developer conference in Las Vegas yesterday.

Winrumors notes that Belfiore used a HTML5 speed reading demo from Microsoft's own ietestdrive.com site. The demo ran at around 20 FPS on Windows Phone "Mango" and 11 FPS on the Android Nexus S device. Despite having a five second head start, the iPhone 4 crawled along at 2 FPS and failed to finish in time. Google’s Android device finished in second place behind Windows Phone’s Internet Explorer 9.

The Windows Phone 7 device clearly won due to IE9's ability to make use of hardware acceleration. Apple has yet to announce plans for hardware acceleration in its mobile browser; however, the expected unveiling of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011 could bring this as a feature.

You can watch the browser test below or you can view the entire keynote here.

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shteef - April 15, 2011 at 3:39am

why do all microsoft employees sound like kermit the frog?

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Don - April 14, 2011 at 4:06pm

Interesting to see using a third party app on iPhone instead of using safari which has the new acceleration software... Run safari with poxy I.E then it would be fair comparison..

Andrew - April 14, 2011 at 4:14pm

I did, and it was still only 2 fps, in fact my mac pro could only reach 2 fps and when i booted in to windows it managed 22 fps, i dont see much graphics activity, mainly cpu, would be interesting to see what hardware is actually being used for acceleration. For all we know it could just be a video thats played back!

Wiseman - April 14, 2011 at 3:20pm

It's easy to make something made by myself run faster in another thing made by myself. But in real world tests made by myself comparing iPhone 3GS with Galaxy S tablet using the same 3G network all pages opened faster in iPhone. So Android has to grow up a little

Andrew - April 14, 2011 at 3:31pm

I still know what phone i would rather have ;)