Windows Phone Beats iPhone and Android in Browser Benchmark Test [Video]

Windows Phone 7 running IE9 handily beat the iPhone and Android Nexus S in a HTML5 speed reading test. The test was performed by Joe Belfiore, Director of the Windows Phone program at the MIX11 developer conference in Las Vegas yesterday.

Winrumors notes that Belfiore used a HTML5 speed reading demo from Microsoft's own ietestdrive.com site. The demo ran at around 20 FPS on Windows Phone "Mango" and 11 FPS on the Android Nexus S device. Despite having a five second head start, the iPhone 4 crawled along at 2 FPS and failed to finish in time. Google's Android device finished in second place behind Windows Phone's Internet Explorer 9.


The Windows Phone 7 device clearly won due to IE9's ability to make use of hardware acceleration. Apple has yet to announce plans for hardware acceleration in its mobile browser; however, the expected unveiling of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011 could bring this as a feature.

You can watch the browser test below or you can view the entire keynote here.