{"id":15548,"date":"2011-10-25T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=15548"},"modified":"2011-11-06T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:36:13","slug":"the-nokia-n9-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/15548\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia N9 Browser Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n The Web browser \u00a0is the first thing I check out on any new phone. I’ve been using the browser on the N9 quite heavily for the last week. \u00a0Read on for my extensive review including a video of the browser in action.<\/p>\n The N9 Browser User Interface:\u00a0<\/strong>Like just about everything in the Swipe UI, the browser’s interface is\u00a0minimalistic\u00a0but\u00a0highly\u00a0usable. There is a narrow, unmovable docked panel at the top of the screen (image above, left) that contains a combined address\/search field and a menu button. Back, forward, stop and refresh buttons appear when applicable and disappear when they aren’t. \u00a0The rest of the screen is devoted to the current web page with no scroll bars, transparent buttons or other browser chrome to get in the way.<\/p>\n Tapping the menu button causes a touch friendly menu to appear at the bottom of the screen (image above, center). It offers the following choices:<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n The browser displays context menus when you do a long press on a link or image.<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n The link<\/em><\/strong> context menu (image above, left) lets you:<\/p>\n The image<\/em><\/strong> context menu (image above, right) provides the following choices:<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n Performance:\u00a0<\/strong>Page loading and JavaScript execution performance seem very fast. At least that’s the\u00a0impression\u00a0I got from casual use.<\/p>\n Javascript benchmarks<\/strong> \u00a0confirm that the JS parser is speedy. I ran Google’s V8 Version 6<\/a> and Webkit.org’s Sunspider v. 0.91<\/a> benchmarks on the N9 and on the only other relatively modern devices I had available, a Nokia N8 running Symbian Anna and an HTC EVO running Android Froyo. Results are shown in the table below. \u00a0The N9 outperformed both the other browsers (The N8 browser crashed without completing the V8 test).<\/p>\n\n
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