iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari Using Nitro Engine for Ultra-Fast Web Browsing?
We so fondly remember Palm’s Roger McNamee stating the Pre would be a million times faster on the web than the iPhone (now retracted), and even our sister-site PreCentral.net jumped on that band wagon, saying the Pre looked to be 4x faster than the iPhone.
Of course, we mentioned that on Sprint, lacking simultaneous voice and data, even a million times zero is still zero. Less flippantly, however, when Safari 4 Beta shipped for the desktop with its new ultra-fast Nitro (formerly SquirrelFish) rendering engine, we figured it would only be a matter of time before that scaled down to the iPhone’s version of Safari (based on the same WebKit foundations as desktop Safari, as is the Palm Pre browser and Android Chrome Lite).
Now Daring Fireball and Wayne Pan posit that turbo boost might have already happened in iPhone OS 3.0:
Wayne Pan has braved the NDA waters and published JavaScript benchmarks for iPhone OS 3.0, and they are impressive — with results ranging between 3× and 10× faster than iPhone OS 2.2. And I’ll confirm that MobileSafari on iPhone OS 3.0 passes my simple “could be Nitro” recursion depth test.
From what we’ve seen of 3.0, it seems that way to us as well. Along with HTML5, CSS, 2D and 3D animation, anti-phishing, AutoFill, etc., it will be interesting to see what Apple and the WebKit team can pull of by the time iPhone 3.0 launches this summer…
March 26th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
the last episode of life on nbc (aired 3-25-2009) had a detective that was asked if she had a camera on her phone. she answered yes 5 megapixels. they kinda made a whole deal about it. i thought this was odd until she pulled out what looked exactly like an iphone. There was a leather protecting case over the back but the front looked just like an iphone. perhaps hinting at 5 mp camera on upcoming iphone?
March 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Is there rumars of two different iPhone and iprod.
What I’m concerned is ARM is saying they have two chips mili 200 coming out in late 09 then mili 400 in 2010.
It would suck if people buy one then 5 months later “hey we got a better one!”
March 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
iPhone 2.1 and iPhone 3.1
I wand 3.1 if it’s better!!!