iphone Safari In 2.0 Is 1.7 Times Faster Than 1.1.4
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Those of you who haven’t installed the 2.0 firmware on your iPod touch or first-gen iPhone will be interested to know that 3G connectivity isn’t the only thing making the iPhone 3G faster than before. Despite being pretty buggy and prone to random crashes, the iPhone 2.0 software’s new version of the Safari browser is significantly faster than 1.1.4 or 1.1.5.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has compared an iPhone running software version 2.0 with the same tests from 1.0.1 and 1.1.4. Here are his results (the smaller the bar, the faster it was):
According to his tests, it was no less than 1.7 times as fast in most cases. You can get more of the nitty-gritty at Daring Fireball.