Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Nov 2008 21:47 UTC, submitted by Hakime
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless "Before 2007, using the internet on your phone would make you want to kill yourself, if you were dumb enough to believe the crap splattered across that tiny screen even was the "internet." But the combination of increased bandwidth and better mobile software means that more phones really are promising to deliver the real internet, in living color. We tested eight different browsers, and while some put smiles on our faces, others proved that rendering HTML correctly is a far cry from actually giving you an awesome web experience. And what about 3G vs. Wi-Fi? Everything the carriers have told you is a lie. This is the true state of mobile web."
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RE: Bitching about iPhone
by linumax on Thu 27th Nov 2008 23:58 UTC in reply to "Bitching about iPhone"
linumax
Member since:
2007-02-07

I have no complaints about speed, but it does suck because it keeps crashing. I have to restart the iPhone two or three times a day to make Safari usable.

An Apple rep (as well as many fanboys) recommended turning off Javascript!! It's already missing flash and Java, why don't they just port Links to iPhone and have it all plain text then?!

Edited 2008-11-28 00:01 UTC

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RE[2]: Bitching about iPhone
by sbergman27 on Fri 28th Nov 2008 00:17 in reply to "RE: Bitching about iPhone"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

why don't they just port Links to iPhone and have it all plain text then?!

I think App Store rejected their application. ;-)

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RE[2]: Bitching about iPhone
by Hakime on Fri 28th Nov 2008 02:05 in reply to "RE: Bitching about iPhone"
Hakime Member since:
2005-11-16

"I have no complaints about speed, but it does suck because it keeps crashing. I have to restart the iPhone two or three times a day to make Safari usable. "

I don't have such experience with my iPhone, it crashed i think two or three times since i bought it (3 months ago) and that's it, no way that it has the behavior that you are describing, I suspect that you are over exaggerating.....

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RE[3]: Bitching about iPhone
by Johann Chua on Fri 28th Nov 2008 02:53 in reply to "RE[2]: Bitching about iPhone"
Johann Chua Member since:
2005-07-22

Or maybe he goes to Javascript-heavier sites than you do?

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RE[3]: Bitching about iPhone
by sultanqasim on Sun 30th Nov 2008 17:20 in reply to "RE[2]: Bitching about iPhone"
sultanqasim Member since:
2006-10-28

Same here, I've only experience a few crashes in the past few months (once or twice a month is OK with me). If it did crash daily though I would be very pissed. But contrary to those cool, popular Apple-bashers, for the majority of people, it rarely crashes. I used to use IE7 on Vista and it crashed nearly daily. That is on the world's most popular browser..

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RE[2]: Bitching about iPhone
by eggs on Sun 30th Nov 2008 01:54 in reply to "RE: Bitching about iPhone"
eggs Member since:
2006-01-23

It works fine for me. Safari crashes very rarely. I'm typeing this reply on my iPhone now. The whole reason I bought the iPhone was because the browser is so much better than any other phone browser I have ever used.

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