Android 2.2 Beats Apple iOS 4 in Benchmark Tests

That means the latest and greatest hardware is nothing without the software to match it.
Duh!...

In the red corner!!!
Apple fanbois leaping to the defence of their crappy iPhone!!!
In the blue corner!!!
Android owners laughing their asses off!!!

Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Proven time and time again. Toms benches hardware everyday... Showing 6 cores mean nothing with software that doesn't utilize it.

Who cares, they are phones, not PC's or gaming consoles? I fail to see the point of this!!

There's a surprise, another story taken from engadget.com
Don't Toms staff have any other sources?

It doesn´t need to be the fastest one. It only needs to be fast enough. So the questions is: Are iPhone OS4 and Android fast enough?. If the answer is 'yes', it is useless to compare them.

Cool! I'm ready to dump AT&T for Verizon when the Droid X comes out. I wonder how "new hardware" with Android 2.2 would perform in comparison to Apples' iPhone 4

If it's old news to you then why click on the article? I happen to not explore every tech site on the web and like to see the news even if someone else's post I'll never see got it out first.

Thanks Toms!

I would like to see battery life comparisons, something that is important to a cell phone. I know both platforms have had problems in this area.

Ha ha, suck it iPhone

Same. I don't have to check 400 tech sites a day because Tom's usually gets it all.

The point is that Android fanboys finally rejoice as their beloved Android wins a in a Javascript rendering benchmark, which has very little to do with everyday web browsing experience.
What they fail to realize is that iOS still feels snappier, and while they have Flash enabled and improved Javascript rendering, their battery life keeps decreasing....
Kudos to Google for keeping up with the fight though and being a good competitor. This will increase innovation and hopefully lower prices.

Fast enough today... but I'd like to be sure I get a phone with enough headroom to run whatever apps are gonna be rolling out 1.5 years from now, if I'm gonna be locked into a phone for two years.

That's fine and all, but if the investment was already made into apps for a certain platform, it's going to take more than a faster browser test to get someone to leave that platform and buy all new ones.

I think it's interesting but I use the Chrome browser and am not really surprised by this. It doesn't really reflect which hardware is really more powerful either, so what you're saying doesn't really add up.

Is that another way of saying you think it is faster, despite numbers proving it
err
isn't?

I'm in the blue corner laughing with my EVO.

That is if HTC and the carriers decided to release 2.2 update for their phone without Sense or other custom UI attached. Fat chance.

I recall Anand's "Total cost of ownership" calculation, about 2.5-3k $ over 2 years for a phone. I wonder, why are you guys paying so much for it? Can't you buy a "standalone' phone, whithout signing draconian contract?

PS
Sorry for offtopic.

Javascript benchmark has nothing to do with how fast a phone iOS is.
You fail to realize that Android has a custom Java engine and this handles Java scripts more efficiently. The other thing is that not too many apps use Java, and the overall Phone OS is not running on Java, thus this benchmark has very little to do with overall performance and feel of the Phone OS.

So f**king owned! I'm definitely getting an Android phones once the new ones (3.0 capable) come out later this year.

Hahahhahahhahhaaa

One single benchmark and people are ready to claim victory?

Is this what other smartphone companies are now going to do? Run meaningless tests so they can come up with a numerical figure claiming their phones superiority to the iPhone?

Why don't we talk about sales numbers? I know you Appple haters (and Apple smartphone competititors) must HATE the fact Apple is selling iPhones in quantities you could only dream of.

The smartphone market is only so big, and every iPhone sold is another lost potential sale for everyone else. How soon before Apple completely dominates the smartphone market?

Fair play, they did say that in the post above and coutered it with the following

So even with the Arkensaw Chuggabug that is Flash, which supposedless is slower than an oiltanker running through hot tar, it still beat the iPhone for speed. When it worked on a level playing field and turned Flash off, guess what?
Faster.
In real world use.
Android is faster than iPhone.
Period.

Well that wouldnt be so great... The day when Apple dominates the whole mobile market is the day when innovation will cease to exist... Healthy competition is good for consumers, price-wise and innovation-wise.

It seems that you are confusing Internet Browser Benchmarks with Mobile Phone OS performance. Last thing I heard, neither iOS nor Android is running it's OS on top of an Internet Browser...

Hey Tom's, you forgot the most important benchmark test of all "SPEED TO AN OFFICIAL RELEASE", which as you may have noticed has been obliterated by iOS4 when compared to Android 2.2. "The Android phones will be getting 2.2 soon"??? According to the rumor mill (our only source of official Android news) many think that the official 2.2 won't hit the major phones until the end of 2010...

Err, never?
Even though sales are up the percentage of the smartphone market is actually down. Androids market share is lower but its sales on the previous year was up something stupid like over 600% higher so it's relative market share actually is up.
So in real tersm, the market is increasing in size, Apple is shrinking, Android is expanding, a lot of analysts reckon 2012 they will pass each other.

Huh? WTF are you rambling on about? You want real world usage and if someone uses their phone to load up webpages it doesn't get any more real world than that.
Load up a webpage, faster on this phone than that phone = faster phone.
Why is that so difficult?

Yes

Yes I can see the video showing Android loading faster by a half a second.. .Great job on kicking ass! Now if that's all you use your phone for than good for you.,, Some people also use it for Talking, Scheduling, Chatting, playing games, listening music, etc.
But hey that half a second of faster loading on the Web Browser is kickass!

Half a second is enough to make a graphics card or a CPU cost 5 times more, and it doesn't matter if the margin is half a second, half a minute or half an hour.
It was a straight fight and it won.
The only lesson to be learned here is Apple needs to try harder.

If they gave people flash, allowed expandable memory and didn't tell people they were "holding it wrong" they might actually make sales outside the fanboi zone.

Yes it won, now lets see... Half a second faster web browser loading or three extra hours in battery life? hmmmm..... I think I might go for that extra half a second, in ten years it might save me a whole hour.... good investment... In the mean time make sure you dont leave your home without a charger in your pocket

And now we resort to childish thumbing down
If it was Apple in the same situation there would be fanbois screaming it from the rooftops that it was the greatest phone in the universe.
Take it like a man.

@Euphoria_MK

The Android phones give you lots of choice between models and a very high level of customization. They're also faster as a bonus with flash enabled and according to all review sites froyo feels very snappy without any particular weaknesses. The downside is the battery time but you can get the android for a lower cost and can replace the battery for a higher capacity one or take an extra battery with you. Anyway I won't take any of these phones for their battery because when I'm called for reserves and the phone battery dies in a day or so and causing me to lose connection to all my loved ones that's a big **fail** in my book. Well, at least with android phone I can take some extra batteries with me