Apple iTouch & iPhone’s safari browser test

Apple iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.

According to a the testing conducted by Apple in November 2007 on a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 with 256MB of VRAM. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings.

Testing conducted with a beta version of Safari; all other browsers were shipping versions. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection, and other factors.

And the result is Safari executes JavaScript up to 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 2 times faster than Firefox 2.