iPhone and Windows Phone 7 Browser comparisons

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 07:34 PM

Yes yes, we know this is a slightly unfair battle. This is an iPhone 3GS versus the Samsung Windows Phone 7 prototype. There's also someone moving the 3GS pages after they've loaded - I presume that the Windows Phone 7 browser will move while loading too.. but... it does seem to take quite a bit longer to load pages. At first glance I'd say that this isn't a totally fair test - we can't figure out if rendering is the issue or just the size of the data pipe, but heck.. it's worth watching someone actually using the browser.

We can't wait to try this out for real when the actual finished phones are ready later this year. Until then, if you've got 10 minutes, have a look at all of the videos over at Newsgeek - there's some excellent hands-on videos of the new OS from the Marketplace, Office Hub, Xbox Live Hub, Music Hub, People Hub and a lot more.

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Posted 30 July 2010 - 09:28 AM

Not a particularly favourable side by side, but then I guess it is early(ish) code.

It seemed to render the text only sites at the same speed or quicker, which I guess is fine as I'm not interested in full mobile internet, the mobile specific flavours are good enough for me.