I downloaded the Storm emulator to see how the browser compares with mobile Safari. NOT impressed.
The Storm is supposedly based on WebKit, but that doesn't mean it's automatically good.
A real usability problem I had was that SmartText mode (where the "keyboard" has two letters per key) was terrible at predicting URLs because they aren't proper nouns. Also missing: you know the little ".com" button that appears on an iPhone when it knows you're entering text in the URL bar? Never knew how much I needed it until it was gone. I also really miss the iPhone's "add to homepage/bookmark" button, integrated Google search, and tabbed browsing.
BlackBerry HTML/CSS rendering is better than it used to be, but the iPhone still renders them much better. I'm not sure if Storm is handling javascript properly, though I'm still experimenting.
So far Storm's browsing looks better than previous BlackBerries, but it still has a long way to go.
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I downloaded the Storm emulator to see how the browser compares with mobile Safari. NOT impressed.
The Storm is supposedly based on WebKit, but that doesn't mean it's automatically good.
A real usability problem I had was that SmartText mode (where the "keyboard" has two letters per key) was terrible at predicting URLs because they aren't proper nouns. Also missing: you know the little ".com" button that appears on an iPhone when it knows you're entering text in the URL bar? Never knew how much I needed it until it was gone. I also really miss the iPhone's "add to homepage/bookmark" button, integrated Google search, and tabbed browsing.
BlackBerry HTML/CSS rendering is better than it used to be, but the iPhone still renders them much better. I'm not sure if Storm is handling javascript properly, though I'm still experimenting.
So far Storm's browsing looks better than previous BlackBerries, but it still has a long way to go.