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N95 bests iPhone in mobile browsing stats by 6 to 1?

34 replies · 6,904 views · Started 08 March 2008

Unregistered wrote:Well I am surprised about this list. I have a N95 and I do a great deal of mobile browsing during my daily commute to work everyday. It works fine and has 3.5 but after using an iPhone over wi-fi I think it is absolutely mandatory for Nokia to follow through the web experience that you can have with an iPhone, and guess what for that I hate the N96!. Of course I haven't bought and will never buy a mobile that does not support 3g or higher so iPhone has to improve there too. Please nokia make a 3G N810 I implore you!!!

The N96 isn't a follow-up device to the N95 (it lacks for example 3D acceleration), so, you don't need to be angry - I'm pretty sure Nokia will release a brand new, touchsceen-based model later this year.

ramzez wrote:LOL, blackberry should be quite embarrassing as well then

You mean you can't use the BB as a one-hand device? Strange, I, most of the time, use it (model 8800) with one hand only - perfectly usable. It's only when entering text that I use both hands to make it faster.

Unregistered wrote:The other factor here for mobile web access is that iPhone is restricted to WiFi, doesn't have 3G so isn't as truly mobile as other devices, for instance a normal phone sold on a network with an inclusive data plan wil browse websites anywhere practically as fast as WiFi. An iPhone restricted to a poor EDGE infrastructure is actually a pretty awful browsing experience I can vouch. In all the places I have Wi-Fi I have 17 Inch screens and qwerty.

Sun has just announced they'd write a MIDlet manager for the iPhone (I've just published an article on my blog on this). This means Opera Mini will also run, which, in turn, means FAR better speed over EDGE.

All that Mac hate is distracting you guys from the bigger picture that most likely often evades you. You all know that Symbian is total s**t right? Even Sony, part owners of Symbian as you well know, has started making smartphones with Microsoft's mobile OS instead!!

In addition, I'm sure that not one of you has left your closed-minded geek cave long enough to even be allowed near an iPhone, let alone spent any real time with one.

I can't believe that someone could be retarded enough to draw conclusions about iphone usage from the PC Pro mobile website stats!! Hahahaha.

Gimps!