Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks

Posted on July 7th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Google’s Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android’s Dalvik runtime environment and the browser got some very deep optimizations. These enhancements make Android’s performance more competitive than ever.

In our recent review of Android 2.2, we conducted some tests on the Nexus One to measure the extent of the JavaScript performance improvements. SunSpider and V8 benchmarks show that JavaScript execution in Froyo’s Web browser is almost three times faster than in the previous version of the platform.

We compared these findings with that of our tests of Apple’s mobile Safari browser on the iPhone 4. The results show that the Android device delivers significantly faster JavaScript execution than the iPhone, scoring over three times better on V8 and almost twice as fast on SunSpider. Apple has some work to do it if wants mobile Safari to retake the crown as the fastest mobile browser.

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Week in tech: Windows 8 details, bad capacitors, and Android 3.0

Posted on July 4th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Is there ever a dull week in tech? The last seven days saw nothing less than our first serious leaks about Windows 8 features, the launch of Hulu Plus, Android 3.0 details, and damning allegations about Dell and its failure-prone hardware.

Windows 8 leak: an App Store for Windows, IE9 beta in August: Slides describing Microsoft’s plans and ambitions for the Windows 8 hardware and software ecosystem have been leaked. In the documents, the company outlines its plans for performance improvements and a Windows Store for third-party software sales.

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Android 2.2 Screenshots: My Favorite Features in Froyo

Posted on June 2nd, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Android 2.2 (code-named “Froyo,” the next alphabetical installment of dessert-named releases after Cupcake, Donut, and Eclair) is now rolling out to Nexus One handsets. If you’re tired of tapping and re-tapping the System Update menu item and getting nothing, you can update your N1 to 2.2 manually. Lifehacker runs down how. This method worked [...]

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Introducing Todo.txt Touch: An Experimental Android App

Posted on May 13th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Yesterday’s post generated some interest in an Android application that manages a todo.txt file, and I’ve got an itch to try my hand at a mobile app. So, I’ve just created a skeleton Java-based Android app called Todo.txt Touch. The source code is located on GitHub, and it literally does nothing right now, except list [...]

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