Android 2.2 Is 450 Percent Faster Than Android 2.1

The guys over at Android Police have got their hands on the latest version of Google’s Android OS, Android 2.2 (Froyo), and decided to run a few benchmarks on it to see how it compared to the current release Android 2.1.

Some of the benchmark result are interesting, with some being 450% faster than Android 2.1, and the tests were conducted using Linpack which calculates how fast your phone can operate.

The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power. Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense N by N system of linear equations Ax = b, which is a common task in engineering. The solution is obtained by Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting, with 2/3*N3 + 2*N2  floating point operations. The result is reported in Millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second (MFLOP/s, sometimes simply called FLOPS).

The tests were done on a Nexus One, you can check out full details over at Android Police. Have a look and our article on Android vs iPhone to see which smartphone and mobile platform is best for you.