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hey guys it's brandon in a min from pocket now calm and this is an exclusive look at the web browsing experience on windows phone 7 we're going to compare to the iphone 4 and to the google nexus one running froyo should be a lot of fun let's get to it Oh now before getting started it's very important to mention that what you're about to see is not final hardware or software it's not a representation of a device you're going to be able to get so keep that in mind it's an LG Panther development device which you've seen many many times at a lot of different tech blogs around the internet so just keep that in mind we're doing this just for fun and the performance results you see here are not an accurate representation of what you'll be able to expect when you get a windows phone 7 device coming up this fall I should mention that this is running build 64 14 of Windows Phone 7 the same build that we shown you on the emulator the same bill that you can get right now in an emulator to run on your computer so the software is going to look very familiar that's why we wanted to do a comparison between multiple devices something you really can't do at home so let's get to it we're first going to talk about Internet Explorer mobile in a more general fashion here before doing the comparison so this is going to look very familiar with ferd for those of you that have used the emulator so we have these buttons along the bottom we can manage multiple tabs one of the unique parts of Windows Phone 7 is that you can actually load tabs while looking at other tabs so I'm going to load a bunch of tabs you're going to get a sense for how fast the browser is here so I'm going to load pocket now calm and I'm going to jump back into the tabbed interface here and I'm going to load another website let's launch amazon let's go back we're just going to keep going fill up the six tabs you can have a total of six tabs let's load the new york times and y times by the way this on-screen keyboard is quite good but this video is not about the on-screen keyboard let's keep going let's load say you know gizmodo and finally let's finish up just on Google okay so as promised while we were loading all of these tabs the other ones we're loading in the background so pocket now calm here it is we can jump out amazoncom has finished loading and let's move around on the page to get a general sense for performance so we can flick scroll obviously we can pinch to zoom which is buttery smooth a mega huge improvement over the stock Internet Explorer that came on Windows Mobile legacy we can move around on the screen of course there is screen rotation it's a little bit slow in this build but again this is not final software so it's very likely that that will be faster when you actually get a device you can jump to other tabs very quickly has very good tab management we can also close them quite easily by just tapping on the X so we can go to a particular website mess around with the page there is no flash or html5 support right now microsoft says there may or may not have that in the future we don't know the answer to that but it does compromise a few web pages because not all of the elements get loaded so what we can do here from the bottom was we can add this as a favorite very simple clean Metro interface allows you to do that we can jump down into here to the other settings and not many things you can change you can delete history allow cookies to load and so on and so forth again not many settings you can change at this point but that may change you can share page you can find something on a page or you can pin to the start page like you can do with an iphone or even android so you can actually have the pocket now calm tile on your start page if you go to that website a lot or the gizmodo tile or the engadget I'll whatever website you visit on a regular basis you can help to customize your Start screen with internet favorites which is always a nice feature so what I'm gonna do now is close all of these tabs which you can do very quickly although it would be nice if there was a close all button but they close fast enough and we are going to bring out the other two devices and compare the internet browsing experience with iPhone and Android let's do it okay here we aren't we have Windows Phone 7 in the center about android 2.2 on the nexus one on the right and iOS 4.1 on the on the iphone 4 here so we're going to go to the same website and try to time it so that they all go at the same time see which browser is faster although again keep in mind this is not final software we're doing this just for fun so let's try to do this at the same time it's always a little tricky okay and they're all perfect the same time looks like the nexus one is ahead okay windows phone 7 actually finished first they're very impressive followed by the iphone 4 followed by the nexus one by the way i've turned off plugins so it's not trying to avoid a flash content and taking a while on the nexus one here so windows phone 7 one there and let's take a look at how they feel scrolling down the page so the iphone okay it skipped a little bit checkerboard windows phone 7 no checkerboard no checkerboard on android either you can see that the actual kinetic scrolling is probably the smoothest on the iphone followed by Windows Phone 7 which is also quite smooth and finally android 2.2 once in a while can get a little bit choppy if it's loading and intense website so let's zoom in a little bit see if we can compare how smooth the zoom is on all these devices all are pretty smooth androids a little bit choppy in this case let's try to tap on this link at the same exact time and we'll do another take it which device is fastest so you can do this okay and they're off okay iphone finish first here followed by Android followed by windows phone 7 last by about point five seconds still quite impressive move down on the page we're getting some checker boards over here on the iphone 4 let's stop the nexus one here from loading let's go to a different website this time let's hit up engadget com and see which device gets there the fastest okay let's try to do this at the same time okay and they're off the same exact time let's see which gets to engadget first hopefully they'll all go to the desktop view and not the mobile site which it looks like they are okay iphone 4 finish first followed by the nexus one looks like Windows Phone 7 is going to come and last again in this case so so far windows phone 7 came in first one time came in last two times but is still very very much faster than the pocket Internet Explorer that we remember from windows mobile so huge advancements in that respect get some checkerboard over there nexus one really doesn't provide any checkerboard and if we click really fast on windows phone seven here we don't get checkerboard we actually just get some blank spots and I can't even get that to happen so pretty impressive on that front let's check screen rotation speeds across all these three devices go to the top go go iphone to Windows Phone 7 first okay windows 17 beat the iphone their iPhone one there let's do one more time exactly the same time okay iphone one there it's trying to load a page so kind of inconclusive there let's take a look at the nexus one next to Windows Phone 7 okay nexus one was faster and screen rotation I think that's helped because android 2.2 doesn't really have a fancy animation when when going over into landscape or portrait just happens so screen rotation is faster in android 2.2 compared to windows phone 7 and let's go to one more website before we wrap up this video let's just jump in to amazon.com to see how that looks there we go and they're off okay so we got the mobile site on two of these and on the Windows Phone 7 device we did not so let's go to the full site so we can be on the same exact page take a look at how the double tap to zoom feature behaves differently on these devices so double tap double tap double tap so a little bit choppy on the the nexus one there it's not responding too well on the iPhone very strange so we'll tap on this kindle story here okay looks like the nexus one finished first followed by the iphone 4 and then witness when someone's going to come last year so what we learned from doing this experiment is that Windows Phone 7 browsers on track to be among the fastest web browsers that are available on smartphone operating systems now of course again this is not final hardware or software so it's impossible to make a final determination about the browser performance but we can say that Microsoft is absolutely on the right track to make a browser that is comparable to the best mobile browsers out there which is extremely important for the success of any smartphone operating system so pretty good marks here for windows phone 7 at least the beta here and now please subscribe to our channel for more videos on smartphones and 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