Top smartphones' Javascript speed compared

Cleve Nettles
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June 24, 2009
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Tired of hearing how fast the iPhone 3GS is? Too bad...here's yet another study of the browsing speed of the new iPhone 3GS and the new iPhone 3 OS.  Medialets ran the SunSpider Javascript tests on three recent iPhones as well as the Palm Pre and the Android G1.  The results are below (shorter bars are better).

 

 

This is a pretty clear indication that not only is Apple's new hardware fast, but the new 3.0 OS is also pretty helpful in speeding up Javascript.

Comments (11)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 2:37pm

Does the iPod Touch 2G run at the same speed as an iPhone 3G?

admin | June 24, 2009 - 2:44pm

nope, slightly faster

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 9:07pm

My iPod Touch 2g with OS v3.0 ran the test in 31.2 seconds.

Tom (not verified) | June 25, 2009 - 5:06am

My iPhone 3G with OS 3.0 just ran the test in 39,4 seconds. Starting to wonder why they only got 48 seconds?

Tom (not verified) | June 25, 2009 - 5:12am

My iPhone 3G just ran the test in 39.4 seconds. Starting to wonder why they got only 48 seconds?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 3:28pm

It'd be interesting to have some other devices here, like the BlackBerry Storm and the 1st gen iPhone.

Hopefully, Apple will get Safari 4.0's engine on OS 3.1. that'd be a substantial improvement.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 3:58pm

What is so surprising to me is that the 3.0 software made such a drastic difference in speed. Judging from these results, the software made an even bigger difference than the hardware. Very cool.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 5:23pm

Don't know why, and haven't read anything about it, it's like everybody's got a bust thanks to OS 3.0 but since the day I upgraded to it, I have noticed that my iPhone's response to almost everything is higher. It really slowed down performance. Actually, I have seen it crash, quit and freeze sometimes, mostly on Safari... But almost everything is slower in here, like to open your address book, to write a SMS, don't know why though :S

Tom (not verified) | June 25, 2009 - 5:08am

I can confirm that. My iPhone 3G is definitely slower since I installed OS 3.0 Especially when the keyboard comes up, it takes ages - compared to 2.x - until I can actually start typing. Not nice. Also, when I close a program, in 70% of all cases the fade-out effect doesn't appear, it just quits.

Tom (not verified) | June 25, 2009 - 5:08am

I can confirm that. My iPhone 3G is definitely slower since I installed OS 3.0 Especially when the keyboard comes up, it takes ages - compared to 2.x - until I can actually start typing. Not nice. Also, when I close a program, in 70% of all cases the fade-out effect doesn't appear, it just quits.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 24, 2009 - 6:16pm

OS 3.0 makes my 3G run faster in browser mode, and crash less often. The only annoying thing is that when I go into an elevator, I get 55 notices that network connection has been lost. Kind of like my ex-wife nagging me, and again, and again, and again.