Nokia Lumia 800 Vs iPhone 4S Vs iPhone 4 Browser Comparison Test

January 2, 2012 | By Pradeep

Windows Phone 7.5 has a great web browser Internet Explorer Mobile, but how it compares against browsers on other competing platforms ? Above is the video comparison of web browser of Nokia Lumia 800, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. iPhone 4S performs great in all of the speed tests done while iPhone 4 lags behind IE Mobile in some tests. Even though these tests indicate some benchmarks, real world usage of these browsers seems to be pretty much same. All of them are Fast, Smooth and Responsive.

Speed Reading Test:
iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 2 fps (iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0 – around 37 fps)
Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 40 fps
iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 60 fps

Sunspider Test: Lower is better
iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 4018.2 ms
Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 7188.7 ms
iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 2266 ms

via: Mynokiablog

About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

Tagged windows phone, windows phone mango

Anonymous

Looks like WP7 needs IE9 update from Microsoft. Not sure if dual core CPUs help the iPhone 4S…

http://twitter.com/xyhchina Henry XU

The real problem for WP7 is hw is really old, although the user xp is not bad, but compared with those apple monsters there is real difference there.
Anonymous

IE9 on Windows Phone was RTM’d in June-July while iOS5 in November ! ! Don’t worry, IE10 will come with much better performance.

Anonymous

Yeah, but when will we see IE 10 on a Windows Phone! Probably not another 6-8 months?! Microsoft needs to get in the habit of more frequent updates… Hopefully, CES and MWC will reveal pleasant surprises for us in terms of progress for Windows Phones and Windows 8!

Anonymous

I think Microsoft may try to update the rendering engine of IE in Windows Phone Tango, but will have full IE10 only with Windows Phone Apollo. Because both desktop and Mobile versions of IE share the same underlying engine.

Anonymous

IE9 is currently the fastest in Sunspider, I tested it against FF9 and Chrome and IE beats both, if they want the fastest mobile browser they can because they know how.

Nokia’s next chipsets will come from a deal with ST-Erricson so they will have a lot more influence than they would have if they only went with qualcomm.

At the end of the day I don’t really care about how a mobile browser does in Sunspider, since my desktop is a few hundred times faster. I get 252 on my desktop in IE, so the differences between those cellphones which are probably not that important thatn they look, they are 20-40 times higher than a desktop.

http://twitter.com/slayr007 Nicholas Coulter

we’re talking about IE Mobile 9, in which case, IEM9 is now middle of the pack.

http://davepermen.net davepermen

it’s fun to compare with an older ios version. it shows the days before wp7 beating the crap out of them with the ie9 browser.

it’s thanks to wp7 that others like the iphone have actually updated the performance of their browsers. i remember how they showed off wp7 mango as being the fastest browser in the mobile world (by far). now, everyone moved on, and now the slower hw of wp7 shows.. still, it’s fluid and fast, even while it performs slower. so it’s not that big of a deal. can’t wait for a wp7 hw update, though, to see how ie9 fares, then..
http://twitter.com/csmartphonesale joseph ryan

Good job for lumia 800
Anonymous

That html web test reminds me of the benchmarking apps people with Android use to showoff the specs on their phones when in reality the results mean crap all in the real world. Ive yet to see the IE browser perform better than safari in real world tests, is it because most webpages dont use the same code on that web test?. One thing WP needs is playing embedded videos within the browser e.g. viewing the animation in the bing home screen. Alot of webpages have embedded videos which IE on WP cant play because of how it deals with video formats (it needs to bring up the media player).

rsgx

Don’t Apple own a patent to play media within the browser on a phone?

Anonymous

They do? Well that’s a downer. How can they have a patent to it when desktop browsers can play media within the browser, its the same thing!

http://twitter.com/PCFRIKi Ian Cavalcanti

Don’t be so fanboy, as WP user i’d expect to see the iPhone 4 with iOS 5, it is like comparing a 1st gen WP without Mango. So in reality, IE9 is behind the Safari Browser. BTW for me, Safari and IE9 renders pages very badly.
Anonymous

I* have a HTC Titan, the phone was exposed to liquid, and the touchscreen lost its responsiveness…

BUT… i got faster results than the Lumia 800.

Speed Reading Test:

HTC Titan (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 50 fps 2 secs <——-

iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 2 fps (iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0 – around 37 fps)Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 40 fpsiPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 60 fps

Sunspider Test: Lower is better

HTC Titan (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 6594.8 ms<——-

iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 4018.2 msNokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 7188.7 msiPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 2266 ms
iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) – 4018.2 ms
Nokia Lumia 800 (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 7188.7 ms
iPhone 4S (iOS 5) – 2266 ms

and on the Browser Mark,

HTC Titan (WP7.5 aka Mango) – 34590 <——-

Anonymous

I’m still trying to figure out why everybody things the Lumia 800 is the best there is, then the Titan is so much better… specs wise.

rsgx

The Lumia 800 looks the best, I suppose that’s why.

For me, the HTC’s are all too samey, even though I have a Mozart. The Titan is just a little too big for my liking.

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

I always laugh at this test. Seriously do Microsoft even have a web app that uses the HTML 5 canvas. The test is a nonsense.

As a web 2 developer I can tell you all web developers want to support all browsers. The biggest problem is IEs lack of standards support. IE9 gets 141 out of 450 for HTML5 support. Clearly Microsoft have improved this a lot and IE 10 will bring it upto 306. Chrome 16 currently gets 373 and even worse Firefox Mobile on Android gets a massive 313. Think about that, Firefox mobile supports HTML5 better than ie 10 will.

They only adopted SVG over VML in ie 9 and CSS 3 support is virtually none existent. It still does not even pass the acid 3 test. The result of this is a different less featured web app on IE.

Microsoft have been caught with their pants down and trying to force IE specific code has failed and its time to adopt wider cross browser standards. Thankfully Microsoft have realised this with added support for HTML 5 and SVG. However even IE 10 will be some way behind other browsers available today.

So trying to say ie 9 mobile is better or comparable to any webkit based browser just tells me you do not know what your talking about.

Anonymous

If you are a webdeveloper I pity you because you thinks that html5test.com actually has anything to do with real standards conformance. That is just laughable.

Crappy minimal Implementations still full of errors score still score highly on html5test.com

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

hmm actually minimal implementations are vital when writing cross platform applications. Infact thats the whole point. Sure some browsers have bugs or different implementations though the point is I can get it to work.

http://twitter.com/digthenoise Dig The Noise

If you’re creating sites to specs that are as fluid as many elements being tested on html5test, then you’re doing your customers a great disservice.

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

Funny you should say that since our product is flourishing, our company is getting at least 40% growth year on year for the last 4 years and we are getting glowing feedback from our wide range of customers. Remember its not just a site but a fully featured html5 application. Guess what we determine what platform and browsers we can support using a simple check on html5test.com as are many others.

Though who am I to say so, its not because of me that Apple, Google, Mozilla, RIM, Opera and last to do so but not least Microsoft are clambering over each other to support html5 while its in draft so they can have that 5 logo and because of that HTML5 is less fluid than you suggest. Good software design or the use of a third party cross browser library in the mould of jquery can deal with what little change there is and this is a problem software developers have been dealing with their entire careers changes in SDKs and third party libraries. What they can’t cope with is a feature that they require if it does not exist. For example if I want to stream some mp3 audio to a site using html5 html5test tells me it will not work in Firefox so I cannot support that browser.
http://twitter.com/digthenoise Dig The Noise

I understand the value in using html5test to determine cross-browser functionality. However, nothing you posted suggests to me that it’s a good idea to tell clients that a product has poor compliance support based on html5test results.
http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

What are you on, we sell a third party off the self product that just happens to be a web app. Who said I tell clients anything? We add features based on browser compatibility of which html5test is an excellent measure. The reality is ie 9 is lagging behind other browsers yet we can get around this on windows using flash for missing features though how do you do that on wp7. The bottom line is we have a web app that we can sell to desktop and mobile customers. We tell them it works on all the main desktop browsers on windows, mac and linux and we support all mobile platforms except for wp7. It works on webOS. I tried it today on the Kindle Fire and Playbook guess what it worked on both without any code changes. Though I had a fair idea it would html5test.com should both devices support the features we use.

This is the bottom line, we work on all mobile platforms apart from wp7, do you think we want to tell customers that, do you think we don’t want to support wp7. Yet all you can do is be critical of an excellent site, thats provides an excellent service that many web developers are using. Its kinda like shooting the messenger.

Anonymous

>The biggest problem is IEs lack of standards support.

Only minor part of HTML5test.com tests are standard. Mostly they are virtual drafts.
Do you rememder famous acid3 test? 5 of 100 tests was pulled out of standards already.

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

Actually its all draft. The reality is its today its being used as a cross platform development standard.

http://twitter.com/digthenoise Dig The Noise

If you’re a professional web developer and yet put so much value into that site, then you’re going to be suckered a lot in your life.

That site is a private website, and the guy running it chooses a subset of random things on the W3C Working Group’s table that he thinks are cool (some are barely drafts), assigns a score to each according to how cool he thinks they are, and then tells neophytes its measure of compliance.

Heck, he gives mucho points for WebGL and that’s not being worked on by the W3C … that’s the Khronos Group (Apple, Google, Mozilla, etc). LOL.

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

“If you’re a professional web developer and yet put so much value into that site, then you’re going to be suckered a lot in your life.

That site is a private website, and the guy running it chooses a subset of random things on the W3C Working Group’s table that he thinks are cool (some are barely drafts), assigns a score to each according to how cool he thinks they are, and then tells neophytes its measure of compliance”
Can’t you even write your own post. Or at least give the original author credit.

The problem with this post and the one you have copied is you miss the point. I want to write one application once that runs in all browsers. The only way to do this is to use standards based code and run it in a browser that supports those standards. html5test.com tests against standards relating to html5 being pushed by the majority or web browsers. Higher score in html5test.com simply means higher chance of your stands code running in that browser. There is a reason why the chrome web store is full of cool standards based web applications that will not run in ie. Simple as that.

http://twitter.com/digthenoise Dig The Noise

Your original post complains about IE9 and Microsoft’s compliance efforts for it’s low score on html5test, not to give kudos to html5test on the back for helping you determine whether or not a possible HTML 5 implemtation or layered-on feature is supported across all major browsers to which you now seem to be vectoring.

http://twitter.com/wmpuisajoke macsbacer

Web standards is about browser interoperability. That’s the point of them. html5test is an excellent indicator of that, of which IE 9 does poorly. Not only is html5test an accurate indicator of that but so is the lack of web app support in wp7. The blame for poor scores in html5test.com, poor web standard support or web app devs not supporting wp7 is result of Microsoft’s past policy on interoperability.

“There is a concrete benefit to Web designers if all vendors give priority to interoperability around commonly accepted standards as they evolve. After weighing these very legitimate concerns, we have decided to give top priority to support for these new Web standards.”Thats a quote from Microsoft. in 2008http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-03webstandards.mspx

Anonymous

Sunspider performance for IE is severly limited by single core processor as it is a processor only benchmark. IE9 is more about the combo of processing and graphics power which is more realistic for browser experience. IE9 for instance has smoother scrolling on Lumia 800 than a higher specced Galaxy S2 android device whilst the dual core S2 kills it in sunpsider performance. So would you rather have a smooth fast browser or a not so smooth benchmark racer.
Endeavour 1934

And that’s why nobody is buying Windows Phones. Yes, IE9 is very fluid, more than most mobile browsers… but people only look at benchmark numbers in reviews.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JFRSB7FFT2UK2MD4VIW7O5IRUQ kim

No, sorry, but practically, from a simple user standpoint, Safari works better than IE.

I don’t like my iPhone, but the browser is marvellous compared to IE. Faster, more intuitive, smoother.

Mainly with Safari I can watch the embedded videos of most websites (ex. liveleak) whereas it’s totally impossible with IE.

IE is not bad, but it really needs some improvement.

Anonymous

How can the test pages load faster on Lumia but then the actual test score much is lower? I would like to see some real life tests like how fast amazon.com (or any other big site) works.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JFRSB7FFT2UK2MD4VIW7O5IRUQ kim

Seriously, using both, I have to admit that Safari is far far better than IE at this stage.

Not only is Safari faster, it is mainly more convenient. Browsing is a pleasure, thanks to the forward button, and easy navigation between tabs.

Also Safari allows me to watch most of the embedded videos of a vast majority of websites (despite the absence of flash), whereas it’s impossible with IE.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M3FYIIQ3XP2TO2NSPYMSABRNN4 Tom Hn

No offense, Lumia 800 is acutally on par with iPhone 3 or 3GS
http://twitter.com/vidflux Sabau Vlad

I just got my iPhone 4s with IOS 5.0 and i can not Jailbreak the phone, BTW i just won the phone from here if I remember correctly, getappleproductsforfree(.)com please help me with a tutorial.
Sam Boycott

Firstly purchase a Nokia Lumia the download the mozilla or chrome free of cost, then enjoy your browsing speed as fast as you can, obviously more faster than the iphoners.
Secondly Browsing speed is not a criteria to compare the browsing speed between 2 or more devices.
because may be the one performing slower could be connected to any lower speed wifi and the faster one may be connect ed to a very faster speed wifi.
So Lumia will surely make you look brighter if compared with both the iphone 4 and 4s, if connected to a same wifi network.