Web Browser comparison: iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S III vs One X vs Lumia 900

31. Danre posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:57 26 6

Android is best platform for internet browsing.

Android rocks..........

43. abhishek48 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 09:10 0 8

I think these tests are bull shot as my lg thrill loads phonearena.com in 15 secs on wifi 12 mbps, yeahh so my lg thrill 4g is better than all phones

44. Raymond_htc posted on 04 Oct 2012, 09:36 0 4

bare in mind ur using 4G... Not 3G.......

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46. abhishek48 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 10:36 1 2

Dont yoy read the article and comments properly, they are using wifi so am i they have not mentioned their widi speed mine is 12 mbps whicj is avg.. so all these tests are bulls**t

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35. denied911 (banned) posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:32 10 1

test international SIII on JB, I have it for a week now (Poland ;)

45. maryaaadil posted on 04 Oct 2012, 10:16 3 0

Still waiting in India.
:-[

58. tegradragon posted on 05 Oct 2012, 01:22 0 0

Or you can visit Kolkata or Bangalore. They've got Airtel LTE there.

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49. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 15:07 2 1

Windosws phone 8 should refresh the competition. Looks like IE really has no chance against other browers.

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JOHN V: how fast is your internet connection?

You mentioned that you were on WiFi... but exactly how fast is your Wifi?
I think this is really a KEY THING to include in a test like this... don't you?
*****

7. eisenbricher posted on 04 Oct 2012, 03:44 13 1

lol!!

11. kitpogi posted on 04 Oct 2012, 04:03 14 2

PhoneArena! is FOR iPhone any day...no doubt, always have been...

28. PAPINYC (limited) 2 days ago posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:49 3 1

More like iPhone is optimized not to load those silly & stupidly annoying "flash-embedded" commercial banners, also known as iAds, that bogg-down their website loading on any device, mobile or otherwise. PhoneArena should do the speed comparisons on Google's search page like everyone else.

10. hung2900 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 03:54 13 2

It's US variant with dual-core S4 SoC. Int version with quad-core Exynos will blow iPhone 5 away.

13. infernal88 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 04:29 9 0

oh totally forgot about the US variants ...:S my bad...still i think a Snapdragon S4 should do better than the old exynos 4210

19. Hemlocke posted on 04 Oct 2012, 05:36 1 14

Uh, no. The international does better, but still gets smoked. Let me repeat myself: With the exception of Geekbench, the iPhone 5 owns the SGS3 in ALL benchmarks, including the quad-core international version.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6324/the-iphone-5-performance-preview

21. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 04 Oct 2012, 05:56 5 3

yea but the quadcore international galaxy isnt a quadcore S4 pro........so try saying that with a phone like the optimus g which does have an quad S4 pro

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22. AliNSiddiqui posted on 04 Oct 2012, 06:04 3 1

http://www.sammobile.com/2012/09/22/the-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-crushes-the-iphone-5-in-benchmarks/

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24. Hemlocke posted on 04 Oct 2012, 06:17 2 6

Like I said, Geekbench is the only benchmark the SGS3 manages to slide by in, and it gets destroyed by the 5 in ALL other benchmarks.

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30. whysoserious posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:51 7 0

Well, how could you rely on these benchmarks if they're inconsistent to begin with?

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47. jironda posted on 04 Oct 2012, 13:28 1 1

Remember...benchmarks are worthless if real life performance is not like benchmarks.
Sorry but, on web surfing, GS3 wins, period, the above results speak for themselves.

Other story is gaming, where I'm sure iPhone's more powerful gpu will make a huge difference.

And just in case, you should notice that for some reason they didn't measured the Optimus G on all the benchmarks, which is the most powerful android phone to date I think. On Egypt HD at 1280x720 is almost as fast as iPhone at 1136x640. Anyway, both crush de GS3 on this department.

But then again, the scope of the article is web browsing, not gaming, and the S3 wins at that, even when the browsermark and sunspider benchmarks favor the iPhone. Reality beats artificial tests.

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26. infernal88 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:33 1 0

well i didnt say that the iphone score is wrong just that in browsermark a 103 000 for S3 is way off "atleast fo I9300" .had one to toy with for a while and in 4 tries it was between 140 000-180 000

i get around 110 000 in my S2 "i9100"

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52. jlbrazil posted on 04 Oct 2012, 18:19 0 0

It's incredible how people can't accept how the iPhone 5 is faster than the S III. They pretend that the S3 is faster (Because in they're mind, an iPhone can NEVER be faster than the sacred S3), and when someone says the truth they give lots of thumbs down.

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53. ae4ever posted on 04 Oct 2012, 21:06 0 0

WOW!! a 4 month old phone gets beat by a brand new phone!! No way!!

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27. -box- posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:46 0 0

Considering it is the only single-core phone of the bunch, and doesn't have WiFi enhancements like the ip5 (or new Kindles, for that matter), I think it held its own pretty well. It's also $50-150 cheaper on contract that the basic variants of the other phones.

Looking forward to Lumia 920 v GS4 (or Note2) v HTC One X(whatever the new one announced earlier this week was) v LG Optimus G v iph v ATIV S v WP8X. Battle Royale!

36. denied911 (banned) posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:40 0 0

sensation xl with cpu from l900 is faster
internet explorer simply sucks on pc and mobile
on my 1 year i5 laptop i have results in IE worse than Gnote!!!
firefox opera or chrome are easy 4 times faster

29. -box- posted on 04 Oct 2012, 07:50 0 0

I tried the Xpress browser last night, and while it is crazy-fast, it also isn't high-resolution, so it's good for text, but not photos (granted, it is still in beta).
That said, IE on my 900 is the most satisfying browser I have yet used. Not the fastest, but most satisfactory. Never crashes (though Facebook in its infinite wisdom sure seems determined to try with their stupid special coding), very quick, and the address bar on the bottom is very comfortable, no reaching to the top of the screen to surf elsewhere.

Using it right now to post this, in fact.

37. denied911 (banned) posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:42 1 1

Opera Mini FTW
ops i forget that it isn't available on wp ;D

38. darac posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:43 0 0

does it have a text reflow?

34. true1984 posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:29 0 0

i'm guessing they used the AT&T version

55. tha.fox posted on 04 Oct 2012, 22:28 0 0

thats the #1 thing i hate most on the iphone u have to scroll like 5 times to get to the bottom of pages. You the first person to ever notice that other than me I feel lol

39. darac posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:45 0 0

..and make that a quadcore one

40. denied911 (banned) posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:45 0 0

international has 180.000 us has less

41. denied911 (banned) posted on 04 Oct 2012, 08:47 0 1

funny, xperia tipo with cpu from L610 can beat L900

51. bucky posted on 04 Oct 2012, 15:36 0 0

How long do you think they would have to wait for those handsets to get JB?? Lol

56. tha.fox posted on 04 Oct 2012, 22:32 0 0

If someone fails to get a JB update and its a big deal to them they obviously picked the wrong phone! Anyone who cares enough about these updating to new operating systems would most likely buy a flagship phone. fragmentation affects only those who buy low end androids. Apple has almost no fragmentation because they keep giving ppl the same phone in disguise.