The tests on this page are JavaScript- and HTML5-heavy selections from our Web Browser Grand Prix series. Such tests are extremely meaningful to mobile devices because so much of the in-app content is served via the platform's native Web browser. These tests not only offer a view of each device’s Web browsing performance, but since these tasks are traditionally so CPU-dependent, browser benchmarks (especially JavaScript-heavy tests) are a great way to measure SoC performance between devices using the same platform and browser.
In order to keep the browser version even across all Android devices, we're employing a static version of the Chromium-based Opera on that operating system. Due to platform restrictions, Safari is the best choice for iOS based devices, while Internet Explorer is the only game in town on Windows RT.
Browsermark 2.0
Rightware’s Browsermark 2.0 is a synthetic browsing benchmark that tests several performance metrics, including load time, CSS, DOM, HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript, and WebGL.
While we realize that Browsermark 2.1 is now out, the newer version seems to have issues completing on several of our reference handsets, so we’ll continue to run version 2.0 for the time being.

The iPhone 5s easily wins the first Web browsing benchmark. Since the browser tests aren’t heavily threaded, the quad-core SoC’s main advantage over the A7 is nullified. Due to its higher IPC and strong integer performance, the A7 is likely to dominate all of the browsing tests.
Impressively, the Oppo N1 with CyanogenMod comes in second, again placing ahead of ColorOS, albeit by a mere two percentage points.
The one outlier in this benchmark is the Nexus 5. In the other CPU-centric tests, it places near the top. However, in this benchmark, it drops all the way to the bottom of the chart. That sounds worse than it really is, though. The difference between it and the highest-scoring Android device is less than five percent.
JSBench
Unlike most JavaScript performance benchmarks, JSBench could almost be considered real-world, since it utilizes actual snippets of JavaScript from Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo!.

After running this benchmark on the iPhone 5s, I asked Siri how winning JSBench felt, and she smugly replied “Exactly 6.74 times better than coming in second place. I think I look good wearing gold, don’t you?”
The Cortex-A15 finds a way to propel the Meizu MX3 and Xiaomi Mi3 ahead of the Krait 400-based phones by a small margin, reversing the trend seen on the previous page. The N1's slower Krait 300 cores relegate the phone to last place, with no discernible difference between the two OS choices. Samsung's underclocked Note 3 matches the performance of the N1's Snapdragon 600 SoC.
Peacekeeper 2.0
Peacekeeper is a synthetic Javascript performance benchmark from Futuremark.

The iPhone 5s continues its winning ways, while the Nexus 5, Meizu MX3, and Xiaomi Mi3 group together in second place, narrowing the iPhone’s margin of victory to less than two.
The Note 3 slides down the chart to nearly tie with the N1, both devices performing about 40 percent slower than the Nexus 5.
WebXPRT 2013
Principled Technologies' WebXPRT is an HTML5-based benchmark that simulates common productivity tasks traditionally handled by locally-installed applications, including: photo editing, financial charting, and offline notetaking.

There’s no change at the top of the chart. The iPhone 5s finishes with a clean sweep of the Web browsing benchmarks.
The Nexus 5 is the best of the rest. Oppo's N1 puts in a strong performance, actually posting a better score than the more powerful Note 3. In fact, the Note 3 consistently underperforms in Web browsing, behaving more like the Snapdragon 600-powered N1 rather than the Nexus 5.
As for the N1, it’s worth mentioning that for Web browsing, there’s effectively no performance difference between CyanogenMod and ColorOS. This isn’t too surprising given the single-core emphasis of browsing benchmarks. Our CPU tests show that CyanogenMod only has an advantage when multiple cores are utilized.
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- Oppo Dreams Big: The N1 Phablet
- Look And Feel: Primarily Plastic, Positively Premium
- Regarding The Phablet Experience
- Camera: Hardware And Software
- Camera: Photo And Video Quality
- Notable Hardware Features
- ColorOS Software Tour
- CyanogenMod Software Tour
- How We Tested Oppo's N1 Phablet
- Results: CPU Core Benchmarks
- Results: Web Benchmarks
- Results: GPU Core Benchmarks
- Results: GFXBench 3.0
- Results: GPGPU Benchmarks
- Brightness, Black Level, Contrast Ratio, And Gamma
- Results: Battery Life And Performance
- A Phablet For A Niche Market
Probably due to to imperfections in the transistors that control the OLED pixels, there is a very faint but perceptible in deep darkness leakage of energy toward the pixels.
Yes, doesn't compare to the obvious light bleed of any TFT display, but the OLED "off" pixels are not truly off, they have a 0.00something-small level of light which could theoretically be measured by some very sensitive equipment.
The eyes are certainly capable of seeing it...
With the mostly passable image quality, that would not help the N1 much though.
First time I read the term I had the image of holding my 10" Asus pad up to my face and talking into it. I suppose it's better than a shoe; cleaner, too.
True but people couldn't watch porn on their phones back then so it made sense to make them as small as possible. Not so now ... ^^
No removable battery is a shitty solution. Its the issue all phones face after 2 years, their batteries no longer hold a charge.
No removable battery is a shitty solution. Its the issue all phones face after 2 years, their batteries no longer hold a charge.
lol that's a scam the companies do to force you to buy a new one
Guess it is a little better than the shoe...
1080-1200p is a pretty reasonable balance between cost and benefits under 10" and micro-USB is not going anywhere any time soon simply because the micro-USB3 connector is huge and it will take a while for USB3.1 ports to become widespread... and then you have the problem of many countries such as the EU choosing micro-USB as the universal charger spec, guaranteeing that micro-USB will stick around well beyond the new USB3.1 connectors.
Amen to that, bro. Phones are made to be mobile PCs, and phablets are just not mobile phones...