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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and if you remember in the last video where we compared upper mobile 9.52 skyfire skyfire was much faster now we're going to compare skyfire to probably a more close competitor opera mini both skyfire and opera mini render the the web web site on the server of the company and then sends it down to your device whereas opera mobile renders everything right on your device so let's see which of these two is faster we're trying to find the fastest mobile browser that you can have in Windows Mobile so here I've got the HTC touch pro again and I'm going to time launching both programs and we're going to go to different websites let's start with skyfire and see how long it takes to launch and then we'll compare it to opera mini go okay that was about eight seconds and let's go to the wall street journal com so wsj.com and when a click go and start and there it is it was about six seconds and next we're going to go to adobe com which I know has some flash content there okay let's hide the keyboard and go and it's done at about six seconds again and there comes the Flash content coming up on the screen so we'll call it about seven seconds okay so let's take a look at opera mini now now in order to launch opera mini you have to first go into the java java application and launch it from there so i'm going to include that in the time that it takes to open the program remember skyfire opened in about six seven seconds so let me start upper mini okay that was about five seconds so faster than skyfire and let's go to Wall Street Journal now so we're going to go up to the address bar and this is what how you enter an address in opera mini Wall Street Journal calm and ok and start whoops it always asks you this when you start the application so let's reset the clock and do okay and start and there goes and it's done at about 11 seconds now just like skyfire or not for mobile to double to zoom in on a part of this page you DoubleTap and it will resize not as well as opera mobile opera mobile still the best and resizing to fit the screen but it does a pretty good job at letting you get an overview of the web page and then zoom in and then let's do adobe com now so I'm going to go to menu enter address whoops it's kind of hard to tap on these very small buttons that's one of the problems with upper mini so we're going to go to Adobe and get our time already and it's done at about three seconds much faster than skyfire but as you can see here there is no flash content because opera mini doesn't do flash unfortunately and that's one big leg up on opera mini that skyfire has that it does support flash content now like skyfire Opera Mini is free in the way that you get it is you go to opera mini calm on your mobile device and you can download it right from there one thing that I do like about opera mini that skyfire doesn't do is give you more control over settings image sizes so if we go down here to menu and we go to tools and settings we can actually specify how big the font sizes we can change how large the image or how the image quality is so low medium and high and of course high will slow down page loads and things like this skyfire just doesn't have this level of control but that said this is a speed test and skyfire did get the fastest page loads compared to opera mobile and now a closer to competitor opera mini so I think in the end so far skyfire is the best the fastest mobile browser that you can get on your windows mobile device and that's it for now