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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to talk about the all-important internet experience on the HTC hd2 we now have pinch to zoom in opera mobile and it really works quite well and with the Snapdragon processor things are quite fast uncharacteristically fast of windows mobile so let's start off let's go to the internet tab and spend a second there and as we talked about in previous videos when you save a favorite to this screen you'll get a little thumbnail which is really fantastic so let's start off by launching the browser you're going to see help pretty darn fast it comes up this is using opera mobile 9.7 not 9.5 so they've added some features to this here we are on google but it's not very fancy let's go to pocket now that common and take a look at sort of how fast things load better yet I'm just going to go through my favorites that makes a lot more sense doesn't it and here it comes right now we're over a Wi-Fi network coming through extremely fast actually we're probably going to be under 10 seconds and and there comes it was about 10 seconds of course we have the screen rotation which is extremely fast and let's look at that pinch to zoom here we go it works great and it reads the column so that you can see the text very nicely in the column let's move around on the screen kind of quickly and see if we get any checkerboard pattern so far we don't maybe a little bit over there that was one of the problems with a lot of devices running Opera Mobile is that they have the checkerboard pattern but because we're running with such a fast processor you really don't get that that much in this browser of course you can still do the double tap to zoom in if you want to resize a column that way or as I mentioned a second ago you can do the pinch to zoom to do the same thing okay so let's go to another website and see how it looks let's go to say amazon com okay that was about four seconds extremely fast and we can browse around the web page as if it were a desktop page let's go click on something let's click on looks like i already did let's see what we're taking now okay we are on the kindle page now comes they're very very fast i want to go somewhere else let's go to all departments here we are already of course it's just a text page let's go to their laptops and netbooks page I'm just flying through these pages it's an extremely fast browser the fastest i've seen on windows mobile perhaps faster than the iphone we're going to do a comparison of the speed test in just a minute let's go to one more webpage something a little bit more complex let's go to engadget because they have a really long page and let's see how this device does there and we're going to go back into portrait because engadget is more so formatted for portrait screen and again the screen rotation when you tilt it enough just wrap it fast i know it's hard to see that but it's very very fast okay here we are Engadget's already loaded no flash support in Opera Mobile 99.7 still we're actually going to demonstrate skyfire in just a sec so here we are an engadget and we can flick quite easily scroll in with a little pinch and zoom and we do get a little bit of checkerboard when we try to go extremely fast but it's it's definitely much better than than other devices out there and let's just click on a headline so we're taken to another story to zoom in a little bit there it goes all right here we are and let's go to landscape fullscreen browsing full desktop fidelity this is beautiful and it's it's it's really great to see on a windows mobile device just a fantastic web browsing experience okay before we do a speedtest with the iphone and we're also going to do it with another windows mobile device let's take a look at skyfire because this device will only run on edge in the united states so skyfire having that extra speed is really a really good thing to have so let's go to the start menu and go all the way what a little choppy here and let's get down to sky fire and it loads skyfire extremely fast and let's just take a look how this will render pages let's go this time to New York Times calm okay it's kind of awkward typing like this New York Times calm and go looks didn't actually it go there we go and it'll probably come up in about five seconds knowing sky fire okay there was a little bit longer than I thought of course skyfire won't do landscape because it's not really a native program but here you can see skyfire performs extremely well we can't pinch to zoom unfortunately because again this is not a native application but we can zoom in through this little you know plus button here and here we are and it's not as smooth as opera mobile flick scrolling wise but it's definitely tolerable and if you're running this over edge you're going to want to use skyfire to get those faster web page load times so let's do a comparison between this device and the iphone 3gs everyone's got to compare it to the iphone 3gs so we'll do it here right now okay so here we are with the iphone 3gs and the hd2 both of them are on the same Wi-Fi network and let's see how fast they launch the web browser I know the 3gs is going to be faster with the initial lunch but let's see how it does with the page load time so the tap here and I'm going to actually tap the G it's going to go right to google com and so is opera mobile 9.7 let's do it okay as suspected the the iphone was much faster it looks like the hd2 wasn't too far behind you really get a sense for the the difference in screen size here it's really quite fantastic let's go into landscape real quick so you can get a better sense for that okay so there we go so let's go to a website and see which device gets there first okay so we're going to do TechnoBuffalo on both of these and I'm going to speed the camera up so that you don't have to sit there and wait okay so ready set and go Wow up it looked like the hd2 finished but is it he had finished although it still has yet finished it beat the iphone 3gs that is great let's try it again with another website or actually let us looks like they're showing different content here that's kind of weird let's click on the same headline and let's pinch to zoom pinch to zoom all right ready set go and you really really get to see how the massive screen resolution of the hd2 has a much a great effect on the viewing experience right now the hd2 is kind of lagging although I think I actually missed the link I didn't actually hit it so let's do a different test let's go to a different website so here we are on the same site and I kind of want to give you an idea of the viewing experience because I think you're going to find that the viewing experience on the hd2 kills the iphone so I'm just going to move around at the same time can you get a lot more on the screen everything looks actually a little bit smaller here because you don't get full screen there's still the notification bar and this bar at the bottom and we can go to the right although this actually automatically fits to the width but this stays zoomed in a little bit and if we go to the bottom of the page to gaming and we pinch to zoom pinch to zoom and let's tap on a link see which one gets there faster looks like the hd2 actually won again so let's move around a little bit we can double tap here double tap here what actually hit the device in the upper left corner double tap here moves very fast we can double tap again to zoom out again and likewise on the iphone let's get to another product and zoom in zoom in zoom in and it looks like the hd2 zooms in faster now finally let's compare the flick scrolling of a really long website again we're going to go to a tech website this time gizmodo and I'm going to have to get to thee alright so we've got gizmodo loaded on both these devices take a look at the screen rotation speed I'm going to tilt the camera up just a little bit these papers out of the way and let's see what we have looks like the hd2 is faster let's try this again iphone was faster there and one more time I know it looks about the same there's that screen rotation on the iphone that kind of buys it a little bit of time so let's get a little bit closer and let's kind of flick quickly down the page and see sort of which device has it best so we try to do this at the same time they have a little different screen feels let's do it really fast ok so the browsing experience is very similar we're getting a little bit more checkerboard on the hd2 but I'm really enjoying having a extremely full screen experience on here compared to the iphone where you really need to get in closer in order to to see any text at all so you know it's really hard to determine which browser is better Safari on the iphone 3gs or upper mobile 9.7 on the hd2 i'm going to say that the hd2 browser is as good as the iphones browser which is crazy to say because for so long the iphone has had the best web browser of any mobile device page load times are sometimes faster sometimes slower on the hd2 flipping down the page is sometimes faster sometimes not I think the hd2 gets a lot of points for this gorgeous full screen web experience on this massive display but the iphone you can't beat it in terms of loading speed and in terms of jumping from site to site really quickly so if web browsing is of a concern for you know that the hd2 has a really incredible web browsing experience that absolutely rivals the iphone and in some respects is even better so that's it for the internet test will be back soon with more