iOS 5’s HTML5 Performance Bests Windows Phone Mango

[Maura]

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[FONT=&quot]AppleInsider reports today that despite the fact that Microsoft has been saying that its upcoming “Mango” update for Windows Phone 7 would have a better HTML5 performance than Apple’s iOS, the results of new tests show that the iOS 5 beta is in fact faster than Mango after all! [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The tests were run by WinRumors using the iOS 5 beta on an iPhone 4, with the result that the iOS 5 beta attained 31 frames per second. When Microsoft vice president Joe Belfiore ran a test on a Windows Phone 7 running Mango recently, it rendered HTML5 pages at 24 frames per second, while the iPhone 4 that Belfiore tested at the same time could only manage 2 frames per second. Guess that Microsoft test looks like an anomaly now, especially, as AppleInsider points out, Microsoft’s test was developed specifically for mobile IE9, with the phone using a 3G connection, whereas the iPhone 4 used in Microsoft’s test was Wi-Fi only.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Source: AppleInsider | HTML5 performance in Apple's iOS 5 tops Windows Phone 'Mango'[/FONT]