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hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a three way web browser test for the iPhone 3GS the HTC Desire and the HTC hd2 all three of these devices are best-in-class for their operating system so of course we have Windows Mobile Android and of course the iPhone operating system so be very interesting to see how these very powerful very capable devices compete against one another I should also mention that I have set all of them to maximum screen brightness so that if you're shopping for any of these devices you can get a sense for how they compare in terms of color clarity and contrast and that kind of thing so I'm going to turn on the iPhone here and then here we go okay all right and we've quit clinks ready to go so let me see Mike and get these at the same time okay and obviously the HTC is going to struggle a little bit because looks like we have an advertisement here okay and it looks like the iPhone won in that round let's zoom in a little bit to this headline and pan around let's zoom in looks like it's still loading but there goes and over here we can't do a multi-touch because Opera Mobile 10 doesn't support it so we can tap once and it'll zoom in quickly so let's tap on this headline see if I can do it at the same time when we get a little bit closer okay let's try it there they go they're off that's like the hd2 is iPhone finished desire finished and the hd2 finished at the last second okay let's let's go in closer to another area and let's go on to the hd2 review that's a very big page and you can see that the multi-touch on the HTC Desire is very good but not as smooth as the iPhone so let's see if we can click on this HD to review at the exact same time okay try it good see which one gets it first lots of images on this page Wow desire finish first followed by the 3GS followed by the HD - very closely behind okay let's let's do one more test on pocket now then we'll load another page let's go to page 2 which has even more images in this HD to review so get it positioned here all right let's do it and they're off desire finished first again beat the 3GS up something up yet bit finished okay so it looked like the desire finish first followed by both of these devices at the same time they're all very very good web browsers let's flip down the page and see how they look they all have very smooth scrolling the desires a little bit faster than the iPhone let me zoom back out and the hd2 is about the same speed of the iPhone a little bit slower let's test screen rotation so we're gonna zoom out a little bit let's first test the desire with the iPhone 3GS okay at a desire one there let's do the other way the desire one again let's test the desire with the HD to see which one rotates faster okay go zyre one let's try it this way so it looks like the desire is the winner in terms of screen rotation speed test and it also beat the iphone two times two out of three times in page rendering I find that overall the the web performance of the HTC Desire for the most part Beach it beats the iPhone 3GS and the HD 2 on a regular basis let's go to another website let's go to Engadget here very fast really fantastic fidelity here get to see all the images just like they were intended it supports Flash most of the time a lot of advertisements come through just fine you get this nice full-screen view which you don't get on the iPhone because you have the top and bottom bar always present but on the HTC Desire the browser works fantastically well you don't get any checkerboard when you scroll down quickly it's very precise it's easy to zoom in the browsing on the desire is one of the best experiences that I've ever had on a mobile device and and that's saying something so that's it for the look at the web browsing experience on the HTC Desire I'd say that undoubtedly the HTC Desire is a fantastic internet browsing machine coming up in the full review on pocketnow.com we're going to talk about battery life more about performance and talk more about the overall experience in using this device compared to other devices to know exactly when the review hits be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com/randymckown