Portion of "satisfied" Palm Pre owners
Of 40 Palm Pre users polled in August, 2009, 87 percent termed themselves "satisfied," with 45 percent saying they were "very satisfied."
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Thanks for the review!
I agree, great review! A lot of other reviews seem to give lipservice if any mention at all about the browser. What good is an internet enabled phone without a decent browser?
It looks like RIM has been resting on its figurative laurels, collecting profit this whole time and hasn't learned anything about how important a webkit or even somewhat decent in-house browser is for selling a phone. That kind of performance and incompatibility was sub par and unacceptable at best. Almost makes you wonder whether they actually had anyone test it, considering how common engadget is.
The BB browser IS decent. Consider the following things that haven't been said:
1) The guy in the video uses Shift+m to type the period into the URL instead of the Space key. Obviously, someone who is not familiar with Blackberrys.
2) Everything loads a lot faster in "single-column" mode, which the reviewer is not using. I seriously question the intelligence of people who insist on viewing sites in desktop layout on a two-inch screen. Yes, the iPhone does that and it also sucks.
3) Turn off Javascript support. You rarely ever need it. The browser will be A LOT faster with JS off.
4) I noticed the browser trying to load and run scripts even in the mobile version of Engadget. What kind of DUMB ASS writes client-side scripts into a "mobile" site? Whatever Engadget are paying their Web designers, it's more than they deserve.
@Luc: As a former BB user I understand where you're coming from, but as a current G1 user (and web developer) I've gotta say that it's Webkit or the highway for mobile web browsing from here on out. Blackberry's browser is tied with Windows Mobile's browser and they're both light years away from acceptable rendering of non-mobile-optimized websites (which is the majority of sites out there.)