Though iPad runs the third generation of Apple's iOS but the latest iPhone 4, recently released , runs an updated version of the mobile OS. Google's (GOOG) Android 2.2 is now starting to roll out to high end Android devices.
Both Apple (AAPL) and Google use their own implementations of the Open Source Webkit browsing engine.
Comparison of two leading Smartphone OS's browsers in speed-wise?
In the Sunspider Javascript benchmark, the Nexus One rendered the tests in half of the time of Mobile Safari. In the V8 test, Android 2.2 beat the iPhone OS by more than a factor of four. This isn't even close. But how do these tests translate into everyday browsing speeds?
Not satisfied with the results, technology blog Engadget followed up with some real world browsing tests which showed much less of a gap between the two leading platforms. Android still beat rendering most of the websites they tested. When Flash was disabled on the Nexus One, Android's margin of victory increased.
While Apple traditionally updates its iPhone software and hardware once per year (though browser tweeks could come more frequently), Android devices are already surpassing Apple's iPhone 4 in browsing speed which means there 11 more months for the next apple update.
Src: [tech.fortune.cnn]
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