Tablet Internet Browser Comparison Round Up & Review iPad 2 Blackberry Playbook ASUS Transformer
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so you guys I'm here on the NCIX here we go actually I'll Zoom these
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out and then so I'm here on the NCI homepage I want to do a quick browser
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test between the iPad 2 the Android 3.0
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ASUS Transformer and then the Blackberry
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playbook running their own OS so here we
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go what I'm going to do is I'm loading only Pages here that I have not preached
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okay so bear that in mind guys and I'm going to get cameraman to help me press
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all three at the same time so on one 3 2
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1 and we're going to see who manages to load up the forums the fastest and what
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the uh drawing on the screen is like so
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the Playbook is uh pretty strong as well as the iPad 2 now let's just do some
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quick zooming so I'm going to go show you guys one at a time so let's do the
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Android 3.0 platform first let's zoom in on the NC Easter sale let's have a look
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at that side banner up close okay and
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then let's zoom out here okay now let's do the iPad
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2 Easter sale and zoom out and now let's have a
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look at the Playbook so for that one because of the wide screen and small
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screen form factor we actually have to uh scroll down a little bit there we go
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so smoothing is quite quite smooth on the BlackBerry I was very very impressed
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by that aspect of its operation now I have loaded up the hardware conu
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homepage and this is something that I cannot complain about enough when it
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comes to iPad 2 so here's how you switch between tabs on all three devices I
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guess I just showed you how to do that so true tabed browsing here on the uh
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Android 3.0 platform with the tabs up at the top much like Chrome whereas with
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the other two you actually have to access them through an additional button
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here which I I don't mind especially on this one um and then you can just click
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back to your app to get rid of that and then on the iPad it uh brings you to
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like kind of an index of all your different tabs that you have open
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okay so let's try going to the forums which I have not done yet the only page
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I've loaded is the main homepage on Hardware connects Hardware canu is my
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favorite uh tech review site actually since it's all about reviews why don't
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we go ahead and uh load up the reviews section of the website so cameraman if
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you please 3 2 1 okay the Playbook was
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pressed a little bit slower so bear that in mind also I think we pressed it wrong
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all we did was highlight it so let's go back and let's go to articles this time
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instead okay ready uh hold on we wait
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till those pages areow okay ready okay 3 two
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1 here we go okay so Android 3.0 has a
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clear win now any speed Advantage you see on the iPad 2 may be deceptive
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because you can see it doesn't have to load any of the flash content like this
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sniper gaming memory bit this Rampage 3 Black Edition these are flash-based
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banners and and so those are just not being loaded by the iPad 2 so uh let's
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go ahead and uh why don't we just fire up the forums as well as one last one
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last test I know this is not like a proper browser test by any stretch of
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the imagination but it should give you guys at least a little quick rough idea
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of what it's like to navigate to 3 2 1
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web pages on these three different
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platforms I think you pressed it wrong again
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you moved when you pressed it okay okay last one then last one guys I promise
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this time uh we'll go to news which we have not been to
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yet okay this time cameraman's going to try cameraman's going to operate the
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iPad too since that's clearly what he's most comfortable with okay ready 3 2
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1 apparently they're all slow for this
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page and evidence I screwed up on the Playbook that time well whatever you
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guys see how long it takes thank you for checking out our little browser test
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