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by loire280 5793 days ago
I'm glad you like your phone, but of course your brand new Android phone surfs the web better than your old iPhone. It's got a faster CPU, more RAM, and a higher-resolution screen.

Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones across all of the major OSes (it's mostly the same browser, after all).
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yoden 5793 days ago
Not really that true, I have an 3rd gen touch and a Moto Droid, and I much prefer the android device. Better resolution, better browsers (parallel load of tabs, faster tab switching, capability to render more than one tab at a time, flash integration (skyfire), etc), better integration with other applications (youtube, quickoffice, music app, gallery app, etc).
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bconway 5793 days ago
Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones across all of the major OSes

Actually, not at all.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/android-22-demol...

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loire280 5792 days ago
Good point, I forgot about the gap in Javascript performance.

We're currently in an arms race of Javascript interpreters, though, and there's nothing stopping Apple or Palm from using Android's interpreter in the next release.

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