At Google's I/O event this year, the company spoke about the improvements made to the newest version of Android, 2.2. One of the biggest changes was made to the browser, which received an assortment of optimizations.  With the recent releases of both Android 2.2 and iOS 4 on iPhone 4, it's a great time to put them head to head to settle some fanboy arguments, right?  That's just what Ars Technica did, and the results were somewhat surprising.  Using both the SunSpider and V8 benchmarks to test the JavaScript performance of each platform's browser, Ars found that Froyo's browser was nearly three times faster than the previous versions of the OS.  When Froyo is comparing to iOS 4, we learn that the Android browser is significantly faster than Apple's mobile Safari, scoring twice as fast on the SunSpider test and over three times better on the V8 benchmark.

The news that Android's improved browser is faster than the iPhone's isn't terribly surprising when you consider all of the enhancements brought to Android 2.2.  What is surprising, however, is the disparity between the two in the testing.  Mobile Safari on the iPhone has been considered by many to be one of the fastest mobile browsers around, and Froyo absolutely smoked it.  Apple definitely has some work to do if it wants steal the mobile browsing crown from Google and it's little green robot.

Via Ars Technica