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Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part six: win an HTC HD2! {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2009 4:39PM Well, I hope that with all that I've done lately has scored me enough karma to have a chance at winning the most coveted (at least to me) device of 2009! /Drool
Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned {Engadget}
Nov 21st 2009 1:50AM LOL.
Doc: It works?! It works! I finally invent something that works!
'Unique' Bluetooth banana has truly limited applications {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 23rd 2009 1:31AM Best. Review. Evar.
HTC's redemption song: 3.5mm jacks coming to 'vast majority' of post-Hero devices {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 12th 2009 5:18AM You can fix the vast majority of those problems if you spent about one hour at ppc geeks or xda. Search for the problems you've listed, or install a new rom; voila.
White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white {Engadget}
Jun 28th 2009 1:47AM I think you got it backwards, you feel shitty when it turns brown :-p
Joost testing PlayStation 3 specific browser interface {Engadget HD}
Jun 20th 2009 12:28AM You using wireless? Maybe you wifi is slowing you down? I've read about that, but idk if the posts are old by mine sucks with wireless too.
SciPhone shocker! N12 handset features 'genuine' Android OS {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 19th 2009 2:00PM The shadow does match pretty much exactly
iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 12th 2009 3:05PM Just get windows mobile and be done with it... If you get a Touch Pro or Omnia it's much better than everyone makes it out to be.
Touch pro 2 and Omnia HD are coming soon as well...
Iris Browser escapes beta at MWC, now ready for WinMo devices {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 19th 2009 10:17PM Very snazzy looking browser on the HTC touch pro.
The page renders are the best I've seen yet in VGA, and the navigation uses an interesting approach. You can pan using your finger, or after a second or two of panning, a little box pops up (typically in the corner of the screen opposite your finger) and it represents the web page. If you access the box, it gives you an outlive of where your screen is relative to the page. Impressively nifty for jumping around large pages.
Another merit badge for iris is the menus. The best part of the menus are the sheer amount of options; some not yet seen in other browsers, and they are easy to get to... However, they use the windows mobile menu system, which is both good and bad. It's good because its snappy, but bad because it takes up a lot of screen real estate while navigating, and you can't hide the bottom menu bar while in "Full Screen" mode.
Navigation is somewhat similar to opera mobile, double click for zooms, but it's craps shoot to predict which level of zoom it transfers you to. You can access the zoom menu from the menu bar, but it feels a little clunky to use in that manner. it'd be nice to see them offer qwerty shortcuts to enabled devices.
The visual history is decent, but hard to see, and the renders are just decent (probably to manage file cache). The bookmarks are easy enough to use, but the menu isn't very finger friendly, but this could also be due to my touch pro's VGA resolution.
Large page loads do take a while for Iris, and feel like they might be a little behind opera mobile on larger pages, but the caching is much better. You'll only see quick glimpses of the all too familiar checkerboard caching system. Small and easy to render pages load fast and without issue.
Iris is a great mobile browser, and on par with Opera mobile, but not as polished. Depending on how you browse, Iris might leapfrog it's way to be your main mobile internet experience, but with the sad omission of flash support, there's still no one definitive browser to streamline your mobile browsing needs.
