Guest keef319 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I didn't realise just how slow it was!! Last week I got an iPod Touch to replace my old mp3 player. I thought I'd have a go with the Wireless Tethering from the Hero. All working ok, and WOW Safari was loading pages SO quickly I was :D Then went back to surfing on the Hero and it was worse than flippin' dial-up!!! What's that all about!? Any replacement browsers that are close to being as quick as Safari on an iPod/iPhone? I briefly tried Dolphin but wasn't uber-impressed to be honest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jay8ee Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I didn't realise just how slow it was!! Last week I got an iPod Touch to replace my old mp3 player. I thought I'd have a go with the Wireless Tethering from the Hero. All working ok, and WOW Safari was loading pages SO quickly I was :D Then went back to surfing on the Hero and it was worse than flippin' dial-up!!! What's that all about!? Any replacement browsers that are close to being as quick as Safari on an iPod/iPhone? I briefly tried Dolphin but wasn't uber-impressed to be honest... I dont know a lot about it really. But when I was using the vanilla 2.1 rom, I preferred the non HTC browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ymhr Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I've been using Dolphin Browser. On top of having some nice features, it's very, very fast in comparison with the default browser, which I thought was unbearably slow too :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rubber Ducky Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Only, it does not support flash (I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soaa- Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 The iPod Touch uses the same Cortex A8 processor as the iPhone 3GS. I guess that explains a whole lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheAshMan Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 The 2.1 browser is supposed to be faster but only time will tell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sinnadyr Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 dolphin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Villarous Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 In speed, dolphin is just as fast as the default one. At least from my speedtests.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevenz Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 The latest (v2.5?) Dolphin feels a fair bit quicker than the previous version, afaik they both share the same rendering engine though. Using a Hero and an iPod Touch on the same wireless network is no contest though, the iPod blows it away for speed. Even with the Hero on HSPA it's still significantly slower. Pretty sure that the Hero browser is webkit based, and so is Safari so there shouldn't be _that_ much difference I would've thought. It's still quite usable, but not as snappy as it could be compared to a 2-year old ipod touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paulsmith Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 My old phone was an iPhone 2G I think the hero browser is a lot quicker on BBC news low graphics (about the only site I use). Im just grateful my phone doesn't need to make love every 5mins to iTunes anymore I did try a 2.1 ROM - it was quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest redcow Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 dolphin is at the moment the best u can get for android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Naruc Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 is it default HTC browser or Default android browser.... not shure if this is HTC... but android'scrap we are eating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D I Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 (edited) is it default HTC browser or Default android browser.... not shure if this is HTC... but android'scrap we are eating I agree, my iPod Touch's browser is way faster than the Hero's browser. But that's because we have a 2-year old 528 MHz Qualcomm processor (*barfs*) on our hands. It's the same CPU they had for the Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch HD, Dream and Magic! Rehash after rehash. In terms of other Android browsers, Opera Mini blows the pants off any other mobile browser in the world in terms of speed. But, the version available for Android is only Opera Mini 4.2, and it is very buggy and inconvenient to use. Hopefully they will come out with version 5 soon, as they had said they were working on it when version 5 Beta 2 had come out. I was using 5 beta 2 on my WinMo phone and it was awesome. Doesn't have Flash but it does the job otherwise. I would wait for the official Android 2.1 ROM to come to the Hero, as well as for Opera Mini 5, and then we can make another comparison to the iPhone/Touch. Edited February 17, 2010 by D I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ibanez33 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Will the android version of opera mini render pages before they get to phone like the iphone version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest D I Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 (edited) Will the android version of opera mini render pages before they get to phone like the iphone version? Yes, Opera Mini renders pages on their servers... it does a lot of proprietary compression so that you save up to 90% of data usage. You mean iPhone does server-side rendering too?? You could try out Opera Mini 4.2 from the market, but it kinda sucks... Speed is amzing though. On the Hero you can only type in landscape mode, and you have to press the Menu hard button to select Ok/Cancel after entering text :D Edited February 17, 2010 by D I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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