Evaluating mobile Web performance just became much easier.

Vellamo™ is an Android benchmark app, developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), that tests the most important aspects of your mobile Web experience and generates a numeric score you can use to compare your Android device performance with others.

Download the Vellamo app and start evaluating your device’s mobile Web performance now!

How Vellamo works
When you download the Vellamo app from the Android Market and run it, you’ll see it launch 11 different tests –across four categories– through your device’s default browser:

Rendering – designed to measure the browser’s use of the HTML5 display processing subsystem, including handling of the <canvas> element

  • See the Sun Canvas
  • Deep Sea Canvas
  • Aquarium Canvas
  • Pixel Bender

JavaScript – designed to measure the overall speed and efficiency of the JavaScript virtual machine (VM) and the efficiency between this engine and the core browser

  • SunSpider
  • V8 Benchmark Suite
  • Surf Wax Binder

User Experience – designed to measure responsiveness of panning, zooming, and scrolling of text, images, and standard web page objects

  • Ocean Flinger
  • Image Flinger
  • Text Flinger

Networking – designed to measure the performance of the browser’s HTTP and IP networking stack

  • Networking Loader

Vellamo runs the full series of tests mentioned above (usually in less than three minutes, depending on device), then displays an aggregate score. It also gives you the option of comparing your score with other Android devices that have been tested, so you can see how your smartphone or tablet stacks up.

How to get Vellamo
Vellamo is available for free* from the Android Market. You’ll need to have an Android-based device for these tests to run.

We’ve made Vellamo easy to download and run for a full range of users–whether you’re a wireless operator evaluating preloaded software, a developer testing browser performance or an individual consumer comparing phones before you make your purchasing decision.

Start evaluating your own mobile Web performance with Vellamo now. If you have questions or comments, please write a review in the Android Market, or contact us here.

* There is no charge for the rights granted under the Vellamo download agreement on Android Market