Mobile Safari is fast. Android, Blackberry not so much
Increasingly, mobile computing is where it’s at as people take their work on the road, as well as the couch. If you’re gonna get anything done while out and about, then getting around the interwebs at maximum speed is key and Apple’s WebKit-based browser is best of the best.
Gomez — yes, yet another web metrics company — has tested the currently available mobile browsers and found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Apple’s Safari is fastest. Moreover, as iOS 5 approaches, it wasn’t even close and kill of the mobile browsing hill is the Pad.
Still, despite its claim to the mobile web speed crown Safari, and the other smartphone/tablet browsers even more so, are quite slow compared to their desktop cousins.
It will be interesting to see how fast Safari on the iPad 2 is — of all the mobile devices, Apple’s tablet offers the closest to desktop speed. Thankfully, we should be getting that news on Wednesday.
Also, although I’m particularly optimistic about their chances, Android’s just started shipping Gingerbread, their so-called mobile OS for tablets, and that could boost Google’s ranking as those devices hit market en masse. That said, it bears mentioning that Gomez’ numbers are aggregated, which lumps the slowest, oldest iPhones and Android 1.6 devices together with the latest, fastest devices.
Are you satisfied with your mobile browser?
via Macworld UK
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