by
Devin Coldewey
on
December 13, 2007
There has been some dispute over the speed of the browsers on these next-gen phones. N95 users say that the 3G connection makes all the difference, iPhone users say EDGE is just fine when you’ve got a great app like Safari. As it turns out, they seem to go at about the same speed in their natural habitats, but when you throw a 3rd-party browser into the mix, it’s all over. Opera mashes them both; it seems that the “other” other browser is the king of the hill in the mobile arena. I can vouch for this as well - on my Helio Ocean, the built-in browser is better integrated with the UI, but for serious internet use, Opera’s the way to go.
iPhone vs Nokia N95: Browser Wars [tech.co.uk]
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The real comparision was with iPhone’s and N95’s native web browsers. Both products use the same WebKit-based browser and therefore it was an interesting comparision on faster-processor-EDGE -iPhone against slower-processor-UMTS N95. The result was pretty much a tie. The video shows nicely the browsinng experience differencies.
The CrunchGear’s headline’s 3rd party browser Opera Mini is based on totally different technology where all the traffic goes through Opera’s servers with servers compressing all data (graphics) for faster delivery and rendering. Some users might be concerned about the privacy in this approach. If you do not care about the Opera Mini’s man-in-the-middle approach, the performance is surely better than any non-optimized browsing solution.
they are not talking about operma mini here, but opera mobile, which does not compress any data, just renders 10x faster
i have a n95 8gb.
i tried to browse yahoo.com desktop mode and i could not.
i tried to browse tagged site and i could not surf comfortable.
i downloaded opera and it do not look as well.
in fact, surfing on my p990 is, in general terms, better.
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