tekhna
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At this point, I would like to note that the iPhone IS powerful smartphone and arguably the fastest on the market.
Android Phones are, in fact, significantly slower than comparable Apple counterparts because of an poorly written operating system. When benchmarking, the single core iPhone 4 phone performs better than a number of Android dual cores. Despite being an 800 mhz ARM Cortex-A9 dual core, iPhone 4s blows away all the Android dual core ARM Cortex A9 competition!
Tests show iPhone 4S as fastest phone on the market
If trends persist, the iPhone 4s should only be slightly slower than Android quad cores and dual-core ARM Cortex A15s. When the next iPhone launches, it WILL be the fastest device on the market. Let me make it clear now that every iPhone ever launched has been the fastest smartphone on the market when launched, even if it had inferior specs.
Android owners are frequently afraid to admit that their devices are actually significantly slower than the iPhone despite better specs. It is a myth that Android is a power user OS. Android is NOT and will never be a power user OS because it is startlingly inefficient. (Windows Phones do not benchmark well like the iPhone; however.)
FWIW, those tests were all conducted pre-ICS, so Android is being punished in those benchmarks for not being hardware accelerated at the time. I think 3.1 was, so that's why you see the Galaxy Tab keeping pace with the iPhone.