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hey guys it's brandon minimum from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to compare the internet browsing experience of the zune HD the microsoft product obviously with that of windows mobile 6.5 which is also a microsoft product you're going to see that they're very very very different although we may get a glimpse of what's in store for say windows mobile seven through the zune HD they've done an awesome job at at designing this interface to be awesome for a mobile device so let's take a look we're in a drill into internet and the amazing part of the browser on the zune HD is it so minimal yet it works so for example i'm going to stop it from loading right now and I just do that by hitting the X this is all the controls you have to work with and yet from this area you can do everything so I can enter new URL by tapping on the URL down here and I get this keyboard and we can go into list I thought we'd go into landscape I guess we can't to enter in a new address we can tap and hold on this button to delete the address and go to another site such as you know pocket now calm and now it's gone into landscape and by default it brings up the mobile page of the site you're trying to load unfortunately I couldn't find a setting to allow your device to only show the full site let's go back now let's say you want to add this to a favorite you'd press the star down here you press add and it's added very quick and easy and let's say you want to call up a favorite you press this button and here are all my favorites I can tap and hold on any of them kind of like windows mobile and do delete from favorites again this was achieved without any buttons of course there is a learning curve to discover these functions but it's amazing how they were able to pack so much functionality and tote into so few buttons and in such an elegant interface so let's take a look at sort of how this compares to the browser experience that we have coming up in windows mobile 6.5 with ie6 mobile so we are going to go to Amazon on both of these devices and see which one is faster they're both on the same Wi-Fi connection let's do it zune HD looks like it's going first although the status bar is a long way to go and zune HD is done and I think the windows mobile 6.5 is pretty much done here of course this is not a final build of windows mobile 6.5 that you're witnessing here this is a beta actually of windows mobile 6.5 point one so that may explain the slowness I'm going to stop it there and show you how they kind of compare in terms of rendering fidelity so of course the zune HD is multi-touch so you can kind of pinch like so like you do on the iPhone or other devices like the g1 or HTC Hero double tap to zoom in resizes the column beautifully you can scroll around you don't get a checkerboard pattern on the screen very very nice rendering a very pleasant browsing experience let's take a look at it on windows mobile 6.5 also pretty smooth I'm not as good of course it doesn't have multitouch and I just did a Miss press there I was trying to double tap on a column and it tried to load it so you get the point there and also notice how in windows mobile 6.5 microsoft has put the address bar at the top and if you press this button you get a bunch of buttons and yet the functionality of this browser is about the same as this browser but this browser does it with much fewer buttons and a real maximization of screen space anyway this is a beta so you get the point with that so a very refreshing internet browser in in the zune HD let's kind of click around and see what else we can do it doesn't have flash support and let's go to any one of these pages this one's taking kind of a while to load here it is so we can zoom in of course and it's not done rendering there it is move around on the screen got some blank spots so it's not perfect but it's quite good for a multimedia player especially quite good out of micros we didn't think that they could build an amazing mobile browser but here it is on the zune HD we're really hoping that we're going to get something like this or even better with flash support and some more functionality in windows mobile seven now what's interesting about the zune HD is that all of the settings occur outside of the programs or as in Windows Mobile a lot of the settings for a particular program are in that program so there are calendar options and the calendar app there are internet options in the internet app but what I think is a really good paradigm and I think hopefully Microsoft welled up for windows mobile seven is to clean up the interface make it more mobile-friendly they put all the settings out in sort of a system wide area it's going quite slow right now as you can see okay and it's over here in settings now obviously the internet option has very few settings you can delete history clear cookies and disable script but that's pretty much it but a very interesting idea of putting all of the settings outside of the program to really save on screen space and have a great mobile experience so that's it for the internet experience on the zune HD very good not perfect it doesn't have flash support which is a big problem it's not the fastest browser but it's very nice to see something that's quite usable and even even a little bit cutting edge out of Microsoft we hope this is a sign of things to come in windows mobile and that's it for now