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BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Storm 9550 Browser Comparisons Posted in Devices on 13 Sep 2009 12:01 by Kevin Michaluk | 
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Our pal sal is back for his the cool guy report, and this time around he's putting his pre-release BlackBerry Storm 9550 and Bold 9700s' web browsers to work with some head to head comparisons. It pains me to watch these vids as the browser is still just too dang slow (granted the full version of CrackBerry is a heavy site - visit m.crackberry.com on your berry faster loading and stay tuned... better mobile site coming in the near future). The video above puts the Bold 9700's browser against the Storm 9550's over WiFi, while the video below takes two 9700s and compares WiFi vs. 3G. Take a look! Bookmark/Search this post with:
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wow...thats slow as hell
jay z is the man!
That browser is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
I know it was the full site and not the mobile version but its horribly slow.
I also understand he mentioned at the end its not the most updated OS. If if its 50% faster with a updated OS, its still slow.
agreed. he must have shitty wifi, thats the only explanation.
I think I would throw both those phones away, that is ridiculous.
Thats way too Slow. I really dont think a updated OS will change the speed of the WiFi that much.
what a joke. i tested it against my storm 1 speed,mine was way faster. im stayin with the storm 1 with the sweet leaked os i have. guaranteed alotta ppl are gonna be pissed when they pay 500.00 bucks for this storm 2.
Did you also take into account if you already had some info from Crackberry cached? Or did you clear all of your data first?
Holy jesus that was slow. I have a 8900 and ran a test where I went to crackberry.com as i normally would and one where i cleared all my cached data and my browser blew both out the 9700's 3G and Wifi out the water! I do however understand that these are pre-released softwares but damn, if Sal says thats close to the final OS for the 9700 (and I'd assume we could expect the Storm 2's browser to be on par with the 9700 since they're both running OS 5.0), then I may just wait till they release that broswer thats on par with the Iphone next summer before i buy another BlackBerry. This video made me love my 8900 even more lol.
I swear, my Tour on 3G doesn't take that long to load.
I just tested a 2007 original Iphone on 2g. It was 37 seconds faster than the Storm 2 on Wifi.
Sorry...but I just wasn't impressed by either phones wi-fi. I loaded my Storm 1 at the same time and had the site up before both of those phones (I based my speed on the blue bar at the bottom of the screen finishing the load and am using L's hybrid 6v10 OS). The flick scrolling was nicely shown but neither is enough for me to want to swap at this point. I guess I'm one of the few that likes what I get out of the S1. Functionality is everything for me, and I'm able to tweek mine to my needs so I'm happy. I really was expecting more, but as Sal said...maybe in a later comparison when he gets a newer OS
This merely goes to show just how bloated this site really is. Unnecessary JS, 180 IMAGES ON EVERY PAGE!!!! Come on, even a 3 year old can code better than this!!!
this site takes sooooooo long to load it's ridiculous!!! I mean c'mon...this is a site geared toward mobile browsing...you would think at least that the mobile version of the site would have significantly less JS and not nearly as many ads...speeding up loading time.
i know ads are revenue...but save that part for the pc...and take it off the mobile site...jeeeesh!!!
my S1 takes forever on this site...cache cleared or not cleared. i never goto this part of the site on my phone...only on my Mac
I was in pain waiting for this browser to come up. Horrible as always. Skyfire please hurry up. i'm using BOLT for now. This is the reason I tried to avoid using the BB browser. OUCH!!!
And to all those doing their own comparisons, clear your cache first. My storm on EDGE loads faster than either of those too, until I clear the cache. BB Browser is nasteee.
Wow, that was painfully long....how does RIM find that acceptable?
Blackberry should be a shame of themself, for selling phones with such shitty browsers and wifi, as customers we feel very dissapointed and pissed off with blackberry, wake up RIM it's 2009.
My Bold 9000 loads twice as fast as those even on 3g. Thats sloooooooooww!
That was painful to watch. Way to slow.
On my "2G" tmobile 8900 I constantly outperform my friend's 3G iphone's safari browser with Opera mini.
Efectivamente este navegador es un desastre, esperemos que no salga asi en su versión final porque deja muy mal parado a BlackBerry. El tiempo de carga del mismo sitio de CrackBerry.com en su versÃon completa en el browser de mi Bold en 3G con Telcel México fue de 25 segundos, es decir, mucho mas rapido que el tiempo de este video.
I just tried this myself with my Bold on AT&T in the Pittsburgh area. We usually have lousy connection speeds here, and with a cleared cache and history (no preloaded stuff!) and on 3G to boot, my Bold loaded crackberry.com 10 seconds faster than the 9700. I hope this is not indicative of the new Bold's performance, because I was looking forward to upgrading to it when it hits. Fingers crossed!!!
Both phones were over half loaded when I decided to check my phone against the videos Sal did. I grabbed it, Opened Opera, clicked my shortcut to the full CB website and it completed loading LONG before either of those two phones. I average about 7 seconds to load the full website over 3G. Definately faster!
my bb bold running on edge kills both of them loading faster on edge than on wifi or 3g
My storm's browser loaded up cb on 1XEV on 2 bars faster than those, I really hope that the browser speed is "AT LEAST" three times as fast on wi-fi as those when the storm 2 drops.
is a pretty big site with alot going on so thats why they both load pretty slow
First off, good video. Secondly, I loaded Crackberry via my Storm 1 using obviously just 3G and beat both of those phones loading via wifi. Weird Any thoughts
it seems as tho the wifi is slower than my storm with just using 3g. I know for a fact when i open crackberry on my storm it loads much faster than that.
Just for kicks, I tried downloading www.crackberry.com over 3G on my iPhone 3Gs in eastern Massachusetts and it took just under 30 seconds. That is without having been to this site before on my phone. How in the world does it take around 2 minutes on wifi?
put the iphone up against them god that is sooooo slow(had to say it)
the internet on my blackberry tour is so slow i never use it but of course VZW makes you pay for it
My Tour running .191 had the page loaded at the 2:46 mark on the video with the default browser. Operamini loaded it at the 37 second mark.
I love the default browser for mobile sites but it just takes too long to get a full page through RIMs servers or something. When it runs that slow it doesnt matter if you are on wifi, 3G, or edge.
My Verizon Pearl loads the full Crackberry site using Bolt in less than 15 seconds. Is this a browser issue or a phone issue? Either way it's a pathetic showing for these two phones.
There is no comparison. Both browsers suck.
It started ok then the music......
thats stupid fast
Iphone users---eat your heart out..dont be jealous you dont have the Storm
Is he on dial-up? This can't be right. That was crazy slow... I'm sure RIM is very excited about these "demos."
wooooooooooooooooooow..... 56k wifi? BB browsers are garbage...
This can't be right?! Going by what this video is showing, both of those browsers are slower than my 8320 and that's just not possible! What would be the point in upgrading then?
i did my 8900 @ the same time on wifi and it loaded crackberry faster. Any reason?
now how is that suppose to compete with an iphone's browser?
is easily 4-5 times faster...
My Ipod Touch loaded faster than both of those!!!
most blackberries on the planet
this video is messed
Something's funky - the crackberry site took just 35sec to fully load on my T-mobile Curve.
I would like to see a Competing vs Like Storm 2 vs storm 1 vs iphone vs tour and palm pre
It took me 5 seconds to load crackberry.com using opera mini. RIM your browser blows! Give us a way to change the default browser and stop wasting time on your browser!!!
Wow...It must be his wifi. It took 30 seconds for me to load the crackberry site on my 8900 using wifi
Did you clear cache? cuz that might be why urs loaded quickly
gawdddd!!! y so slow!! i loaded crackberry.com on my bold a min into his loading and mine loaded much much faster! i was running wifi too at a local starbucks