#mobile browser

We got the chance to put three mobile browsers from three different phone OSes this afternoon. TJ suggested we compare how fast the browsers are. In the left corner, we have Safari Mobile running on the iPhone 4 and IE Mobile running on the HTC 7 Trophy on the far right. In the middle is the native Android Browser on the HTC Desire. The Safari browser on the iPhone 4 went ahead with a decisive lead, followed by IE on the HTC 7 Trophy with the Browser on the HTC Desire coming in at a close 3rd. There's a catch though -- you will notice that the Android Browser on the HTC Desire loaded that skyscraper banner ad which is a Flash file. That gave Safari on the iPhone 4 a good lead in terms of total amount of data downloaded and rendered by the browser. The much-awaited Firefox Mobile browser (codenamed Fennec) is now out in Alpha 1 release. Read more in our articles including "Mobile Browser: Android vs. iOS vs. WP7" and "Fennec M9: Firefox Mobile Browser Alpha Release".