April 27, 2011 06:58
Recently, Microsoft
conducted a stunning exhibition of its latest IE9 browser for the Windows Phone
7 mobile OS. The idea behind the exhibition was simply: showcase how well IE9
browser equipped WP7 smart-phone processes HTML5 in contrast to other mobile operating
systems.
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For the demonstration,
Joe Belfiore, Director of the Windows Phone program, used a popular speed benchmarking
website. The website not only cataloged speed but also provided frame rate, or
Frames per Second (FPS) details to its users.
The shocking
results of the demo are as under:
|
Sr.
|
Device
|
OS
|
Browser
Speed
|
|
1
|
HTC
|
WP7
|
20 FPS
|
|
2
|
Nexus S
|
Android
|
11 FPS
|
|
3
|
iPhone 4
|
Safari
|
2 FPS
|
Microsoft is trying hard to catch up with Apple and Google in the mobile OS
market. A focus on providing a better web browsing experience to cell phone
users will definitely help Microsoft’s cause against the competition.
The war for mobile OS’ is heating up. Let’s wait and see how Apple and Google will respond to this latest Microsoft challenge.
