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Typing on Android phones harder than on iPhones

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MENLO PARK, USA: iPhone 5 trounces the competition with the most responsive touchscreen in the industry, according to Agawi's new TouchMarks benchmark that measures touchscreen latency of popular smartphones and tablets. Agawi has created the world's first benchmark that measures how fast a touchscreen responds to touch: as important a factor as display image quality.

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Agawi's TouchMarks measures the Minimum App Response Time (MART) scores, and the results are surprising. The iPhone 5, with a response time of only 54 milliseconds, is more responsive by a factor of more than 2X when compared to Microsoft's Lumia, Google's Moto X, Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other popular smartphones.

In fact even a two-year old iPhone 4 with a MART score of 74 milliseconds does better than the latest phones from the other manufacturers. "Minimum" in MART score is defined by the fact that the benchmark uses the lightest possible app that responds "immediately" to touch, without doing anything in the app.

"Smartphones with touchscreens that have lower MART scores feel snappier. This is probably why, to many users, the iPhone keyboard feels more responsive than an Android phone keyboard," said Rohan Relan, co-founder and CEO of Agawi.

Agawi specializes in providing technology that runs rich, interactive apps in the cloud and streams them to iOS, Android and WP8 mobile devices. In order to make sure that adding cloud based processing to a smartphone app is acceptable to an end user, Agawi's team had to build a device they call a Touchscope to measure the response times of touchscreens to an accuracy level of +/-4 ms to get the MART score of the device, and then add the cloud processing response time to calculate the end-to-end user perceived response time.

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