The Nokia Lumia 900 review

The Nokia Lumia 900 has the weight of two technology behemoths and Windows Phone fans on its polycarbonate shoulders. Ars sees if the flagship smartphone can do them all proud.

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[StormyParis]

"The browser is, unfortunately, one of the phone's weaker points, relatively speaking. This is one of the few aspects of the phone we are able to benchmark. "

No actually you're really just measuring the hardware. You put a dual core against a single core on a javascript benchmark which is really just number crunching.

No, javascript is more about OS then hardware:

http://www.talkandroid.com/102771-htc-v ... d/chart_3/

A faster CPU helps too, but not nearly so much as a smart browser.

So Chrome on a 10mhz cpu would beat IE8 on a Corei7 2.6ghz?

When browsers are similar in software efficiency then CPU becomes everything.

The only way to test a browser is against another browser on similar hardware. You sure as hell don't give one browser an extra core and determine it to be better because it performed the test faster.

Except we're not testing a browser, we're testing a sartphone. The browser comes bundled with it, I'm not even sure there's a choice. So testing browsing on the Nokia vs browsing an the Samsung seems fair.