iOS4 vs Android 2.2 on JavaScript’s terms

on 07/07/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

Don’t you just love shootouts between two giants? Well, the same applies to JavaScript performance between Apple’s iOS4 and Google’s Android 2.2 update, where some tests were run by the folks over at Ars Technica, and boy were the results something amazing. Both SunSpider and V8 benchmarks trend almost thrice faster than in the previous version of the platform where JavaScript execution in Froyo’s Web browser is concerned. When compared to Apple’s mobile Safari browser on the iPhone 4, the iPhone 4 fared around 33% slower on V8 and has around half the performance on Android 2.2 where SunSpider is concerned. Looks as though mobile Safari is no longer the fastest mobile browser in the market.

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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