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hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocket now calm the samsung galaxy s2 has a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core Exynos processor we're thinking that it's going to have the best web browsing experience the fastest pinch-to-zoom the fastest scrolling the fastest page load times and we're going to test that out in this video we're going to compare it to Windows Phone 7 on the Samsung Focus the iphone 4 and the HTC Thunderbolt it's going to be fun let's do it and starting things off we've got the HTC Thunderbolt and the galaxy s2 obviously both are on the same Wi-Fi network both have had cash cleared we're starting off on Google here we're going to go to engadget we might not land on the same webpage actually on engadget sometimes it goes to mobile sometimes it doesn't let's see what happens and let's see okay we've got the mobile on the galaxy s2 we're probably going to get the full version here on the on the HTC Thunderbolt we're going to put them both on desktop view so that we can move around the page see how planning and scrolling compares so okay that's loading and while the galaxy s2 is loading but finished very quickly we can flip down the page put down the page on the Thunderbolt it's obviously a little bit more choppy there but as the web page gets into memory it becomes smoother right off the bat the galaxy s was extremely smooth let's check out pinch-to-zoom very smooth there a little bit smoother on the galaxy s2 we're going to click click on this link at the same time see which device loads it faster okay let's see who finishes first or which okay galaxy s2 finished so we can move around on the page the galaxy s2 is an interesting feature you can put two fingers on the screen and move the device towards your face this is kind of cool when you are doing it in landscape you could kind of go like that kind of a weird feature so let's check screen rotation speed as the Thunderbolt continues to load the page it hasn't finished yet and looked about the same there looks like the galaxy s2 is a little bit faster there we're going to stop it from loading right hit the back button on both of these devices and have them both go back to the home page of engadget we like using engadget because it's a very long webpage with a lot of text and flash content and by the way both of these devices have plugins turn to ask so it's not actually loading the flash content so again in terms of web browsing speed speed between the Qualcomm Snapdragon one gigahertz processor what you find on the Thunderbolt and the Exynos processor on the galaxy s2 galaxy s2 beats the Thunderbolt so let's move that off to the side now let's bring in the iphone and see which one will get two pages faster which one's smoother we're going to kind of get it loaded here here on engadget let's actually zoom in a little bit so we can see what we're doing scroll to the bottom the iphone kind of invented pinch to zoom and really smooth scrolling desktop like browsing so it's interesting to see how the galaxy s2 measures up against that so of course we've got the single core about 1 gigahertz processor the a4 chip on the iphone 4 let's check screen rotation speed before we click on any links give galaxy s2 is faster the galaxy s2 was a little bit faster there let's move down the page and see what it's like the iphone is a scroll as quickly but that's just sort of how the operating system is built and we can go to the top like so just do a quick little flip to get that let's zoom in on something let's compare the pinch to zoom obviously very very smooth on both and let's go to this headline and we'll click them at the same time and see which gets to the page first boom go and let's see cave galaxy s2 finished first so we'll move around on the page here kind of scroll down the iphone is still going the galaxy s2 is just really remarkable in how fast it can load pages again we're hit the back button and have them both go back to the engadget home page see which gets there first okay the samsung galaxy s to beat the iphone and we can move around on the page and do some reading while the iphone is loading the iphone 4 screen is looking very small nowadays and you know we're likely to see it bumped to 4 inches for the iphone 5 but it's just it's very much noticeable because you have so much space to work with on a 4.3 inch display or even a 4-inch display to pinch to zoom whereas on the iPhone you almost feel like you have to you know you wish your fingers were a little bit smaller so you can get in there to be more precise ok so the galaxy s2 won against the iphone let's bring in the Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 has extremely fast web browsing faster than the iphone in most cases and when mango hits with ie9 it's going to be even faster so again we're going to do what we did with the other two devices let's drill into engadget com get the desktop view loaded okay we're back we got any gadget loaded here on the samsung focus running Windows Phone 7 let's do a screen rotation speed test okay we've got the galaxy s2 is faster there galaxy s2 is faster there you've got that animation the kind of fight I'm in Windows Phone 7 by the way forgot to mention that all of these devices that we were testing had no other windows open so no windows there if we do a little pinch gesture here you can zoom out to see that there are no open windows so let's move down the page witness 17 is very good at not having checkerboards when you go quickly down a page once in a while you'll get a white spot implying if we go really fast you can probably see it's trying to keep up but pretty good in Windows Phone 7 especially compared to the iphone we're even on the iphone four you get checkerboards all the time so let's test out pinch-to-zoom very very smooth comparatively let's move down to a certain story let's go to the Microsoft story they're buying skype and we'll click on the links at the same time if I can actually find it there it is so we'll zoom in on both make a really big target so it's impossible to miss and let's tap it at the same time and let's see which gets there first it's amazing it seems that the galaxy s2 is almost loading the pages before they show up because as soon as you click the link you're at the page the galaxy s2 browser is smoking every other browser that we are testing right now and so here comes the Samsung Focus loading the page probably 10 to 20 seconds later the browser on the galaxy s2 believe us when we say this is probably the fastest browser that exists it's incredibly fast let's go to pocketnow.com desktop will go into landscape view and we'll see it just just pop up it's it's really incredible how fast this browser is and of course we'll get some other dual-core devices in here to test because you know certainly this isn't the only dual core smartphone out there we've got the HTC Sensation 4G coming out soon which is going to have a really fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2 gigahertz processor but we are thoroughly thoroughly impressed with the capability here of the samsung galaxy s2 and again it has this feature where you can put two fingers on the screen bring it closer to your face and the text will zoom it's not working ideally here but you can actually tilt it this way to make it happen better kind of a novelty feature doesn't really help very much but it's a nice thing to have the double tap to zoom in works very well it reflows the column double tapping again will zoom all the way out let's dive into setting up while we're taking a look at the browser on the galaxy s2 you saw that gesture previously if you pinched you can zoom out to your window view and you can add new windows here and then it makes it really easy to manage multiple tabs sometimes it takes a little practice you can easily flip between two tabs we're okay let's see how much memory the browser is using right now we've pocket now open in just Google we're using about 86 megabytes of RAM considering that we have a full gig or so to work with that's not too bad and let's take a look at the options that we have here so with the windows we can change browser brightness independently of the rest of the operating system you can go into more you can add a shortcut to home which is cool kind of an iOS like feature you can do this anyway in android but most browsers don't put the option actually in the browser it puts it on the home screen we can share the page we can print let's go to settings here we can change the default zoom we can open the pages in overview mode and block pop-ups I mean these are kind of standard gingerbread options actually most of these change your home page clear cache accept cookies enable plugins is somewhere around here so that you can view flash content on that on this in fact performance of flash content is very very good in fact let us go to youtube and take a look at what it's like to look at youtube videos and of course this has the YouTube application on it but we're going to do it through the web let's search for pocket now real quick pokemon that's interesting pocket now where we go and let's take a look at this let's try to play it in the browser here should be able to and check out performance it's actually loading it in the sort of web player but very good performance and if you were to load this video in line in a page the performance would also be quite fantastic in fact let's uh let's do that because that's something really you should really should take a look at so here's one the great thing about the galaxy has two browsers you don't have to wait for the page to finish to start working with it so I'm just kind of ignoring the status bar up there here's a video I want to see I tap on it and it's going to load the video right in the browser just like you're used to on other android phones but performance is especially good here on the galaxy s2 so that we're playing a video scroll down awesome inline video it looks awesome so yeah the browser on the samsung galaxy s2 is is quite possibly the best mobile browser that's out there right now I'm sure that in the near future that will be outdone by another device maybe the HTC Sensation maybe something else coming up soon or now before of you on pocketnow.com we're going to talk more about battery life benchmarks in hand field day to day usability a lot of other things as you probably have guessed by now we're in love with the galaxy s2 we think Samsung did a stellar job on this device and it's a very well rounded smartphone that gives you performance in every app and really in every aspect of the operating system so if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and watch out for that review on pocket now thanks for watching and that's it for now you