Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to talk about the software and web browser on the HTC legend we're also going to do a speed test against the HTC hd2 and the iphone 3gs so let's get started let's go through some of these programs that are included on the device zoom into the screen we already talked about a lot of these things and really the stuff that we haven't talked about will cover in full in the review but I just want to give you a preview of what we're dealing with here so there's an FM radio application which is quite nice you plug in headphones you get FM radio let's take a look at the YouTube application so a lot of people are very interested in that and here it is and let's see we can search by really anything up here we can go to most viewed most discussed let's just click on say the one at the top or yeah let's go the one the top and Grover Wi-Fi right now so let's see how it looks by the way everything on the AMOLED screen looks so good very clear very very good audio smooth video posters very well on the in the YouTube application which is quite nice to see and let's go back and of course it flips over into the landscape orientation when you change the devices orientation which is nice let's go back and let's launch the web browser it's a typical Android Browser it does support flash which is a nice and let's go to say engadget com and a note on the keyboard which by the way can go into landscape to get a nicer angle the keyboard is quite nice it has vibration feedback the trouble with the keyboard is that it's kind of small on the screen and that's just because the screen itself is only 3.2 inches so you really don't get that much screen real estate to work with when the desire comes out it will have a much larger screen it will have the same experience with the sense interface that the legend does but like I said in a bigger package with a larger screen higher resolution screen so here it comes in is loading right now and we'll give it a second to load let's go into landscape for a better view it's not the fastest web browser it seems to always have some trouble towards the end here so we can scroll down it does have multitouch which is a nice very responsive multi-touch you can also double tap to zoom into a column and if you wait a second eventually it will resize it to fit nicely but sometimes it just gets stuck the the legend could absolutely benefit from a faster processor perhaps more RAM or you should just get the desire which has more ram and a faster processor so scrolling is very smooth we don't really get the checkerboard pattern even if we go very fast let's zoom in on a headline and tap on it to open it so whoops so you can kind of jumps around this is another indication that it's not performing really as it should be so I'm trying to get to a permalink okay there we go let's see how long that takes all right here it comes and again it kind of gets stuck at the end at times and we can double tap to zoom in and there it reflow the column looks pretty good very capable web browser we can also jump to other windows we can go to the windows button here and we can add a new window for some tabbed browsing so here HTC com / us is loading and it's actually going to load some flash content there it goes flash on a phone what an idea it's not super smooth it's a little bit choppy but it's better than nothing let's go back to menya we go to Windows we can quickly flip over to the previous page and you can keep opening windows until you run out of memory which I have not yet done although it gets very slow okay so let's go back into a portrait here I'm going to close the other window we're going to do a speedtest between the hd2 and the iphone 3gs i'm going to zoom out at the hd2 here the iphone 3gs here let's open turn these on so they will connect to my Wi-Fi network already done on both and let me stop it here and I'm gonna go to pocketnow.com on all of these devices and let's see which will load the fastest I have to type the entire address on the legend here alright so let's see if I can do this at and one time okay there we go so this is going to be challenged we'd have to position my fingers and so I'm going to go here here and here one two three the hd2 was a little bit behind so even though the hd2 is a little behind you can still tell that it's taking a little while to load for some reason and there it comes and the iphone 3gs actually was the slowest that's kind of strange so let's look at the browsing experience compared to these okay here we can very well see the difference in screen contrast the AMOLED screen has a much wider white darker blacks the iphone 3gs is kind of washed out and a little bit gray looking and the hd2 with the large screen looks quite nice but not as nice as the AMOLED screen on the on the legend so let's go into a permalink so I'm going to find a store here double tap to zoom in tap once to zoom in all of these have different controls and I'll double tap over here and let's get ready to tap on all of these headlines together okay pretty good there and let's see which loads the fastest okay the hd2 finished and the legend was next and the 3gs was last surprisingly let's see how they fare when we turn them over in into landscape mode so first we'll test these two devices together let's flip it ok so the hd2 is faster hd2 is faster and the legend next to the 3gs let's do a flip hear about already went over ok and flip ok so the the legend has a little bit of a problem in going into portrait as we can see it was beat by both the iphone 3gs and by the hd2 but overall the web browsing on the legend is pleasant not as good as some other devices I think that's in part because of the lack of high-powered processor and also the slight deficiency of RAM that we're not going to get on the desire which comes out next and really builds on what the legend has brought to the table so we've got a lot more coming up in terms of battery life talking about performance and also call quality in the full review coming up on pocketnow.com be sure to follow us on twitter to see exactly when it hits twitter.com slash pocket now tweets that's it for now