New 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook vs Old 9.7-inch iPad: Browser Speed Test

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The main iPad adversary right now is the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android tablet that has just been launched by T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint in the USA with the AT&T version hitting stores too this week.

The tablet has also started selling in other markets, and the first reviews have started popping all over the web, but since our own review of the Tab is coming out soon, we won’t spoil it for you. What we’re going to show you today is a video comparison between the iPad, and another hot, potential iPad- and, why not, Tab-killer, the BlackBerry PlayBook.

RIM’s tablet is also a 7-inch device, just like the Tab and the device is coming out at some point next year. But, as you can see in the video below, the tablet is still being worked on, although from where we’re standing the device already looks great.

The video clearly shows how the PlayBook’s WebKit-based browser loads web pages a lot faster than the iPad’s default, also WebKit-based, mobile Safari browser does. It looks like RIM is putting some serious elbow grease into making sure that its first tablet is going to support various web standards such as Flash, HTML5 or Java in order to offer you the full web. In fact RIM shows us an Acid3 test followed by a Java script test and the PlayBook is again, the winner.

The comparison is pretty interesting and I am sure that Apple will not necessarily agree with RIM here as it could always remind us why it’s not offering Flash support and how that does wonders for the battery life. Moreover we’ll keep in mind that there’s a chance that by the time RIM sends the PlayBook to stores, the iPad 2 gets announced, and the next-gen 9.7-inch tablet will surely bring us better features which apparently should include faster web-browsing.

Anyone waiting for the PlayBook yet?