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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm at Google i/o google made the extremely bold claim that froyo android 2.2 as the fastest web browser of any other smartphone platform that is a very very bold claim and we have a google nexus one year with froyo on it naturally we want to test if this is true so let's do the test okay so before we get on with the comparison i just want to talk a little bit about the browser and show you some of the flash capability now i should mention if you want the flash capability you have to go to the android market and download flash player 10.1 beta as a separate component and this is good that it's separate because now adobe can push updates to android 2.2 devices without having to go through google and be included in an android update so it's a free download it's about five megabytes and you need that installed to get that flash content in the browser so let's jump into the browser and go to a few websites then we'll go into the comparison so now with 2.2 we have a quick link to the browser down here and here we are and let's go to pocket now calm just to start you can see how fast it loads were over Wi-Fi network right now so it's fast it's not ultra super mega fast but compared to other browsers it may be pretty good let's see screen rotation speed about the same as 2.1 sometimes it gets a little bit stuck but let's go to some websites that have a lot of rich flash content let's go to mini clips calm it's actually a site that has a lot of flash games so here we aren't mini clips and we get a variety of games let's go to this one press play and here we go flash content and what we're going to be able to do is interact with the flash content when you tap and hold it goes full screen and somebody wait to that goes away defend the base okay so cool pretty cool very smooth flash game here in Froyo so let's go back play another game real quick just click on anything and we'll go to flash video after this so again tap and hold to interact with the element it makes it full screen new game so this really changes the way you can use your device because you can experience all these flash websites like you couldn't before with flashlights and so I have no idea how this works ok so we're bowling and well that's enough for now so you get the point ok so let's go to youtube com we go to the desktop version of course there's a YouTube player on here that allows you to watch videos in the higher quality setting now here we are in the desktop version so we'll be able to click on let's just click on the super the Super Mario Galaxy lecture that took us to a website let's go back and click on to one of these videos will just choose this one here and we're going to use the browser not the YouTube player just so I can show you the embedded YouTube video what that is going to look like so we can see the little spinny thing start and if we tap and hold we can interact with the element and there you go video so it works pretty well it's not super duper smooth but it's it's quite good it's much better than we've ever seen before on a on a on a mobile device okay let's try the comparison if you got the iphone 3gs here and the HTC hd2 we're going to use opera mobile 10 for the hd2 probably makes the most sense to use this browser and not something like skyfire that uses server-side rendering so let's open up all the browsers here whoops and we'll go to pocketnow.com first and may be difficult to get them all to go at the exact same time but we will try alright let's do it so let's go they're off it's like the iphones ahead the iphone finished here comes the the nexus one hd2 is pretty far behind nexus one finished and followed by the hd2 right after it and what the at the nexus one actually did is loaded the Flash content here so you can see the animations and the advertisements and the problem with that and and this is probably why they call it flash 10.1 beta is because if you start scrolling down the page with these flash elements it's just really choppy compared to the hd2 super smooth and the iphone super smooth so let's zoom in on a particular area of the page and we're going to try to click on a permalink and see which one loads the fastest this permalink will actually open up into a page with an embedded video and we'll see how all of these different operating systems hand to handle the embedded video it's probably impossible to get these off the same time so I'm just going to go one two three one two three so the iphone should get done first since I tapped on it here they go ok so the iphone finished first followed by the hd2 what's happening here is that the the nexus ones trying to load the flash video that we can actually play within the page sort of like you would see on a desktop browser so if we go down a little bit you should see the flash element show up let me zoom in that you saw it pop up again it's a little bit buggy still this flash but here here we go sometimes if you get the wrong zoom level it won't work but of course over here on the iPhone this is the the new beta software for version four point oh you get the embedded right there and it will open up the YouTube player whereas here on the nexus one it'll play right within the browser so let's take a look so their cooks playing the flash video right within the browser you want to stop that okay let's go to another website let's real quick see how the hd2 did it didn't load anything it just has a big blank spot and as I video continues to play we're going to load up any educator on all these devices just to take a look at how fast they toured all right and they're off and we got the mobile version on this and probably all of them except for the for the iPhone there so we're going to scroll down to the bottom on the Nexus One and on the hd2 and click the full version here we'll see which one loads faster between these two let's go okay and it looks like the the nexus one is going to finish first perhaps it's probably trying to load some flash elements which we definitely slows it down in fact I may actually uninstall flash 10.1 beta because it's just it's not ready yet and it really slows down scrolling and the speed at which pages load okay so here we are we're here and I can tell that there is flash on this page because this the scrolling is just not like it is on these other devices here so let's get down to a permalink and we will try to get them to load at the same time pinch to zoom over here pinch to zoom over here super fast and zoom in over there let's try to do is the same time see with one loads fastest I mean something very interesting here I just got a notification I've never gotten before an Android let's look at it it says phone storage space is getting low I'm assuming this is because I am running well a lot of applications that I've been multitasking with today but also because this flash 10.1 is taking up a lot of system resources so if I tap on that will allow me to manage applications and so what I'm actually going to do is is reboot all of these phones we're going to come back and do another test alright and let's try this again so we're going to go into the browser the browser and of course the browser okay and this time we're going to go to amazon.com which will not have Flash content so we should be able to really see how they compare without you know this beta version of flash slowing things down okay and so we're just going to do one two three one two and three let's see what happens so writing at the mobile view will change over to the desktop view we already got the desktop view over there and so we're going to go down to view the full amazon.com full site there we go okay the nexus one finished before the iphone that's that's more like it I think that's more of the representative of the experience you'll have when you're not looking at Flash content so when scroll around quite smoothly on all three you can tap in zoom in there zoom in there and zoom in up here we'll tap on the Kindle page so and they're off it looks like the Nexus One finish first followed by the hd2 and the iphone is going a little bit slower let's tap on these elements see how they work look what's happening here we've got some flash content loading nicely but over here sorry you can't do that so if you tap in homewood we should be able to get some more control over the video so is the browser on the nexus one with froyo android 2.1 really the world's fastest browser well yes and no it seems to be faster significantly faster when you are not looking at Flash content but when you were on a website where there is flash the story entirely changes flash 10.1 beta is just not it's just not there yet and as I mentioned I think I'm probably going to uninstall about flash 10.1 beta and forget having flash on a mobile phone here for a while until they figure it out and let's just really quick let's go to the gizmodo page you'll see how how fast that that loads and we'll go into landscape so you can get another sense for how how this looks on froyo and yet another example of a page with some flash elements scrolling is a little bit slow and if you want to get android 2.2 froyo on your nexus 1 i'll put a link up in the sidebar that tells you how to do that step by step by step by step that's it for now