Web Browsing smoothness

[Guest chingy1788]

My question is why is Android's web browser and the 3rd party ones are all... not as smooth as iPhone's safari web browser

The old G1, the Acer, even the Nexus one, browser scrolling is never as smooth as an iPhone 3GS, or even a 3G, even an iPod Touch

I believe Android trades page scrolling smoothness for the ability to load the page entirely and have no checkerboard pattern when scrolling. I noticed that even the G1 never got the checkerboard pattern (or even a blank page signifying "loading") that the iPhone 3GS gets when scrolling through pages really fast.

Why isnt there an Android browser that offers smooth scrolling over rendering the page completely?

I would take smoothness over seeing a checkerboard pattern for only a brief second any day.

Does Apple have a patent on web page rendering or something?

[Guest jayziac]

Not to be a fanboy, but everything is smoother on the iphone because it wasn't designed to multitask. Most of the CPU cycles go towards native code that renders the GUI smoothly. Whereas Android uses Java and allows other things to go on in the background. Hopefully Froyo and Just-In-Time compilers will solve this issue soon.