Gadgetory

hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here during my review of the nexus one I gave in very high marks and really praised it as being one of the best overall smartphones available however I did take a little bit of umbrage with the lack of native multi-touch support in the browser multi-touch is quite important to me I'm an iphone user and I'll become quite accustomed to it I felt that if then next is one or Android as a whole had multi-touch capabilities that were utilized meaning pinch and zoom would probably be close to the perfect device well the native browser found on the droid or the nexus one does not support multitouch right out of the box however enter the android marketplace and the dolphin browser which you can see right there it is a free browser that supports multi-touch and does just support multitouch a little bit it's a full supports multi-touch very well so nothing me talking about it let me give you a demonstration so here I've got TechnoBuffalo loaded up and do the main motion that I do quite a bit the pinch in the zoom and it is extremely fluid and it works really well there's no lag or delay and that may be due to the browser being optimized or the credibly fast processor the nexus one but it works very well it renders pages as well if not as fast as the native browser and Android I mean it just worked it very quickly there's no ghosting at the bottom none of that checkerboard pattern it just works and the multi-touch very quick and as you can see works quite well and of course you've got your zoom now the dolphin browser actually has a few tricks up its sleeve more than just a really effective implementation of multi-touch first thing that you may notice here are tabs Tim's got technobuffalo right there then I've got YouTube and you can manage your tabs all the way across and an X shows up when you want to close it so I'll go ahead and close the YouTube tab now I'm right back here on TechnoBuffalo and you can browse just like you would normally but there are a few downsides the first is even though this is a free browser you may see a few google ads it show up at the bottom you don't see them very often but they definitely do show up so let me take you through setting other features of the device go ahead hit the plus sign right there now you get sort of the menu system that the dolphin browser uses so here's your most visited you can star the sites if you want in the upper right hand corner notice that very familiar-looking microphone that will activate your voice search like you can in any other text entry field so you can say ww technobuffalo com it'll take you there or Google search whatever you'd like moving right down you've got your stars so you've got your bookmarks we've got a ton of Google services here so you've got search Gmail maps talkin so I'll just take you to the web portal for all of these I google photos calendar reader earth docs and it's a ton of other things they're just really nice shortcuts nothing you couldn't just type your own URL into but it's nice to sort of have them all laid out here for you next you've gotta read it later if you want to set a web page to read later you've got delicious if you want to send something right to it we'll go back cancel and then you've just got about the dolphin browser I give feedback share with friends and a few other things now this supports some gestures but nothing that i found terribly useful the real big selling point here is multi touch and i gotta say it works it very well this may make android the next one particular probably the perfect phone out there i'm really impressed the speed of the device for a third party browser it's one of the best out there now I can't praise it enough supposedly it only works with android 2.1 higher devices although reports are saying that if you've got a 1.5 1.6 advise that the dolphin browser will still work for you so flows you may be on a non firmware updated g1's or my touches definitely go ahead and give this a shot it's a free download from the android marketplace you got nothing to lose and if you see an ad or to just be thankful it again multi-touch i suppose anyway just want to let you guys know this was out there because i really had no idea it was brought to my attention after my nexus one review spaten revised my nexus one review i would probably have to give this a perfect five stars the phone is now fast it's got every feature i could have asked for Google HTC and android really a come into their own on the dolphin browser takes it to the next level so go ahead and get downloading I will see you guys in the next video and the shorty awards are still going on I mentioned this a few videos back it's a video contest for short video producers if you like what I do when you know you have the time I really appreciate your vote in a tech category I'll put a link to it in the sidebar hope you guys enjoy it and I will see you in the next video