iOS 4 vs iOS 5 Browser on iPhone 4

iOS 4 vs iOS 5 Browser on iPhone 4

Apple always said that on each update, Their products always be faster and faster.

A5 chip is claimed to have the computing capability 2x faster than the A4 and graphics rendering speed 7x faster, and so far, Apple's claims proved true after the benchmark test. Of course not the only hardware, but also its software in this case is the IOS 5.

iOS 4 vs iOS 5 Browser on iPhone 4


Apple said that IOS 5 has been installed in more than 25 million devices in the first week of release. IOS 5 Brings many fixes and performance improvements for users of iPhone and iPad, one of the which was on Safari.

IOS 4 using Safari 5.0 and IOS 5 using Safari 5.1, but although the version number did not experience much improvement, the reality in the use indicates the opposite. New Relic have Measuring the velocity in open the web on devices with iOS 4 and iOS in tests that Involve 3.000 web pages being compared in this test.

According to these tests, IOS 5 with Safari 5.1 is not only faster, but much faster than its predecessor. IOS 4 takes an average time of 9.6 seconds to fully open the web page, while the IOS 5 only takes 4.1 seconds. Devices that run IOS 4 (possible iPhone 4) in the other control tests, takes 6:34 seconds to open full web pages, compared with 1.88 seconds on the IOS 5 device.

To see these changes directly, I will try to compare the speed of opening a web the between IOS 4 and IOS 5 by using the iPhone 4 and run on the same WiFi connection. Video comparison can be seen below.


Seen clearly that the IOS 5 is able to open web much faster than the IOS 4 on the iPhone 4. Have you upgraded your device to IOS 5?

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