Because that’s only important to geeks. This is the real world. Consumers are going to compare high-end windows phone to high-end android. They aren’t going to limit their options just because Windows Phone have restricted specs. For example, Android has had qHD (960×540) displays for the whole year and 720p screens are now out, whereas the latest Windows Phones are still using WVGA…  do you really think consumers aren’t going to take that into account?

I just compared my HD7 against boot time of Thunderbolt from this and other Youtube video, boot time for HD7 was always 20-22secs still faster than fastest of Thunderbolt.

Conclusion: based on same hardware spec comparison Windows Phone 7 proves to be much faster OS and with much better coding efficiency than much more mature Android. WP7 faster than Android for most tasks on average 30-50%

I would agree with you about only comparing similar specs if there were Windows Phones with higher specs out there, but there won’t be for a while. Even when they do jump to dual-core, Android will be on quad-core. You cannot ignore current high-end Android when comparing current high-end Windows Phone. That’s unfair. You’re trying to look at it from a geek’s perspective, which means absolutely nothing when it comes to purchasing a phone right now. Consumers will be deciding whether to get the Titan or the Galaxy Nexus (or Galaxy S II, Droid Razr, Rezound, or pretty much any phone released in second half of 2011 – and there are a ton), not the Titan vs Thunderbolt. Hell, in Q2, there will be even more powerful Android phones out there by the same manufacturers that released the current high-end Androids.

What’s available now or in the near future is what’s important to consumers. That happens to be dual-core for Android (the norm now and soon to be quad-core) and highly clocked single-core for Windows Phone. Btw, the Thunderbolt has an older chipset that runs at 1GHz stock, Titan has the newest 1.5GHz chip stock – how is that a fair comparison anyway? People have been overclocking the two year old Nexus One beyond 1.5GHz for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it improves significantly. Overclocking Android phones is highly overrated. And I think you’re underrating the power of a 1.5GHz single-core processor, too. Perhaps Windows Phone runs better on a highly clocked single-core processor than it would with dual-core? Have you thought about that? They’re two very different platforms with different needs and functions.

The WP OS is more efficient with less when it comes to running the the base OS. That’s been clear from the start since they adopted Apple’s method of restriction. The OS is more limited, less configurable, and for the most part is untouched by manufacturer customization, so it makes sense for it to boot quickly no matter what processor. I’m not disputing that. What I’m saying is you have to compare high-end to high-end, not high-end to outdated. Manufacturers put these crazy processors in Android because they can and to some extend because it needs it. They do what needs to be done for it to perform. Same goes for Windows Phone. Apparently, it only needs a single-core 1.4-1.5GHz processor to meet their performance standards. 

So I guess you wouldn’t want to compare Windows Phone’s WVGA displays to all the 720p screens coming out on Android now, huh? So consumers should ignore all the innovative features on Android because WP has restricted specs? Please. This is why uninformed consumers are going to pick Android or the iPhone over Windows Phone when they look at the feature-list of new phones. Microsoft needs to step it up.