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hey guys i'm jon rettinger I'm a guest editor here at pocketnow.com with a browser comparison for you on the blackberry storm and the HTC touch pro or in this case the AT&T fuze so let's go ahead and get started tilt the camera down here to you guys can see I've got the backlight turned down pretty far on both and they are queued up to everyone's favorite pocketnow.com so let's start right here with the HTC touch pro so this uses a resistive screen meaning it's makes the connection from two layers pushing together kind of like that so you feel a little bit squishy but let's take a look notice it rendered the website in full HTML just as it will look on your computer and get the ability to scroll around nice and easily with your finger find something that you want to see can double tap and you'll zoom right in and I said it's scaled itself right for the window which is really nice automatically will just text and very easy to pan around double-click will zoom you right back out most your navigation is done from this little arrow right here it looks like in a jet button almost if you go ahead and click that pulls up all your menu you can go back there's a star push it again right there stars are your favorites it is full tab browsing that right they will show you where you are and pull up your main menu bar up top and this right here will go to your settings downloads page info history saved pages and help I really do like the tab browsing experience I think it's really very helpful you can scroll around here again on any page at your app and it really is a very seamless experience and the HTML rendering is quite fantastic so let's take a look now at the blackberry storm and here we are again now on the pocket now homepage you know it's sort of gaming the ability to scroll around but not by much and actually didn't render the website correctly which is uh quite surprising see it one more shot let's refresh it one more time here will go to pocket now calm this is actually a pretty common problem with the blackberry storm the browser does render pages in full HTML and it's supposed to be just as fully capable as the HTC touch pro which I should mention is running opera mobile 9.5 it does ship with pocket internet explorer but it does not use as a primary browser fortunately opera mobile is far superior so we're going to give the blackberry storm another shot to load paw canal and there it goes so it is now letting me scroll around which is very nice and it's showing everything in one column now just like the touch pro if you want to zoom in you can double tap the screen and I didn't push the screen actually in like I did right there I just double-tapped on the outside of it using its capacitive touchscreen which means it's use it makes its reactions from transfer of electrons on the glass surface now notice it zoomed in but it did not scale itself like the touch pro did you have to pan around to read the text a little bit on the annoying side this much to my chagrin does not have tabbed browsing you've got a menu right here which pulls up your website you most viewed and which ones you want to go to this right here will change your view from column to full web pages this little arrow here will replace almost your finger with a little bit of cursors you probably can't see it there's a curse you're falling around my finger helps me select items and you can zoom in and out like I mentioned with your finger or you can use these little plus and minus arrows right there to make your zoom in just a little bit easier I find tapping to be much easier if that's what I'm used to but you may prefer something different and you can find a format that works really nice for you you can see panning is relatively easy this is definitely the most fully featured browser that BlackBerry's ever put out even more fully future than that found on the blackberry bold so I did give them credit for moving forward with their browser it certainly is a step in the right direction and a step forward from I suppose where they where they were so let's go ahead and compare the two now and I'll give you guys my take on it so I'm loading up pocket now again here on the touch pro and there it is and just looking at the two even back on the homes in here zooming out is sometimes a pain it does always register double taps go back here even just looking at both pages you can see that the HTC touch pro and opera mobile 9.5 really make it much easier to use mobile browsing experience I've really enjoyed using actually opera mobile 9.5 and recommend anybody who has a windows mobile phone go ahead and give it a download certainly worth it it does handle javascript perfectly and it does handle some flash content but you cannot view youtube videos unfortunately on either devices although the HTC touch pro does come with a integrated YouTube player low it is a little bit hidden flick scrolling on each can certainly do find your finger keep scrolling on the blackberry storm it'll scroll as long as your fingers on the page so it really is a personal preference there move the camera back up here so if I had to choose one that browse that I prefer hands down has to be Opera Mobile 9.5 especially optimized for the touch pro everything works perfectly at the accelerometer to you can rotate it it's all right there everything works turn it back recognize everything really quickly and easily and it makes for a seamless PC like browsing experience so in conclusion if you have to pick a 2 when browsing experiences your big determinant stick with Windows Mobile stick with opera mobile 9.5 you will not be disappointed so guys i'm jon rettinger and guest editor here for pocketnow.com hope you enjoy it i'll see you the next video goodbye