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hey guys it's Brandon evan from TechnoBuffalo and in this video we're going to compare the internet browsing experience of the HTC hd2 with that of the iPhone 3GS as a recap the hd2 is running on Windows Mobile has the largest touch screen of any smartphone available on the market right now at 4.3 inches and it has a 1 gigahertz quad com Snapdragon processor which really makes us wonder how much faster or even if it is faster than the iPhone 3GS and rendering webpages and launching the browser and doing other things like that of course the iPhone 3GS has Safari but the HD 2 has a modified version of opera mobile version 9.7 to help work with the capacitive touchscreen so let's take a look let's start off by launching the browsers and I'm going to tap Opera browser here in Safari on the iPhone and see which one opens faster I think it's no surprise that Safari launches in less than a second in most cases and it's about 2 or 3 seconds on the HD 2 so definitely in terms of opening the browser for the first time the 3GS wins now let's launch a website from a thumbnail like the iPhone 3GS on the HD 2 you can place little thumbnails of websites that you visit on a regular basis so I have the TechnoBuffalo thumbnail here and here let's see which wins I'm assuming the 3GS is going to win because it has that headstart since the browser loads so fast love it let's do it on a count of three one two three okay here they are here they are off ok the iPhones nope not done yep now it's done and Wow about a half a second later the hd2 finished very close even though the 3GS had a head start let's turn them into landscape see which one kind of rotates into landscape faster okay so the 3GS one there and let's do it the other way okay 3GS is a little bit faster now what you get to notice an at least how much more of the website you get to see or at least how much bigger it is on the hd2 because of this large high-resolution touchscreen let's sort of stack them so it's even easier to see and it'll move around at the same time and you can get a better sense of how things look we're gonna flick down the flick scrolling on the hd2 is a little bit faster which is not necessarily a good thing because it's technically less precise when it's faster but you can see sort of how both of these render pages differently the the browser on the hd2 doesn't have flash support just like the iphone 3gs although you don't get nice links to the YouTube videos as you do on the 3GS so very nice browsing experience on the hd2 it really makes good use of screen real estate on the 3GS you still have this top bar here in the bottom bar but on the hd2 you only have a little button in the bottom right corner which will launch all of the buttons associated with the controls of the browser so let's go to another website and do a speed test now that they are open and ready to go we're going to try pocketnow.com so we give this a nice big on-screen landscape keyboard and we're gonna do likewise here okay that's ready to go so I'm going to click here and here at the same time and we'll see which one loads it faster ready set go and they're off okay about even right now okay the hd2 just finished the 3GS about a second afterward it's quite amazing that the hd2 can keep up with the iPhone 3GS so we can move around on the page and again we get a nice massive view thanks to all of the screen real estate on the hd2 we can move around we can pinch to zoom in on the HD - just like we can do on the iPhone 3GS so we can pinch like so and let's go to the same story and pinch and we can flick down double tap to zoom out move down double tap to zoom in and then zoom zap to show the whole website in its entirety so very smooth on both devices let's go to another website and which loads faster we're gonna go to webmd.com this time and over here okay and ready set go they're off okay three GS won by about two seconds there and we can move around on the page everything looks bigger on the hd2 when in reality actually in terms of what is fitting on the screen you can see that if we start at the top and start at the top over here although let's move it down just to be fair we get down to cholesterol here and down here we get a little beyond cholesterol so actually the hd2 starts zoomed in a little bit more the iPhone is really good at showing you an overview of the page but the hd2 is everything quite a bit bigger so it can flick down of course we can double tap on the side to zoom in I'd say the zoom capability the iPhone 3GS a little bit more smooth so we can move around double tap again double tap and this is a little bit more choppy as you can see but it's quite smooth especially for a windows mobile device and the multi-touch works quite well okay let's talk about multiple tabbed browsing so that you can have more than website open flip between them and see how kind of smooth it is on both of these devices so on this device I am going to launch a new tab and I'm going to go to say Gizmodo I'm gonna have that load and I'm going to go over here they already have a tab open here I'm going to close that and I'm going to click on new page and do the same thing over here and of course we get the mobile version of Gizmodo and there it comes and so to access the tabs and the iphone 3gs obviously you tap in the bottom right corner and you go like that you can go very fast between them up to about eight or so pages you can load on the hd2 let's see how how easy it is to get to other pages pretty fast it's not as visual which is in my opinion not as good but you still can bounce between two websites or three websites or however many can fit in this list pretty quickly which is nice to be able to do if you're trying to be productive so overall we're quite impressed by the internet experience on HTC hd2 in most cases it can keep up with the iPhone 3GS in terms of speed and definitely getting around on pages I think is a little bit more enjoyable on hd2 because you have such a larger screen to work with screen rotation is fast the multi-touch works quite well the only weakness of the hd2 is that the browser takes about two or three times longer to launch than it does on the iPhone 3GS we'll be back soon with more comparisons of the HTC hd2 with the iPhone 3GS that's it for now