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Posted by Frank2029 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

wow...thats slow as hell

 
 
Posted by jay ferrison Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

jay z is the man!

 
 
Posted by sportboy Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by Frank2029 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

agreed. he must have shitty wifi, thats the only explanation.

 
 
Posted by gambier82 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

I think I would throw both those phones away, that is ridiculous.

 
 
Posted by usernam9102 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Thats way too Slow. I really dont think a updated OS will change the speed of the WiFi that much.

 
 
Posted by dweasel36 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by SOADFreak1989 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Did you also take into account if you already had some info from Crackberry cached? Or did you clear all of your data first?

 
 
Posted by Rello Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by Jonezed7 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

I swear, my Tour on 3G doesn't take that long to load.

 
 
Posted by sportboy Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

I just tested a 2007 original Iphone on 2g. It was 37 seconds faster than the Storm 2 on Wifi.

 
 
Posted by rayzryd266 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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

 
 
Posted by xandermac Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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!!!

 
 
Posted by RedBank Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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

 
 
Posted by storm83 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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!!!

 
 
Posted by xandermac Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by snowthedirtbub Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Wow, that was painfully long....how does RIM find that acceptable?

 
 
Posted by goodleader Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by jlh73 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

My Bold 9000 loads twice as fast as those even on 3g. Thats sloooooooooww!

 
 
Posted by avt123 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

That was painful to watch. Way to slow.

 
 
Posted by ksc6000 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

On my "2G" tmobile 8900 I constantly outperform my friend's 3G iphone's safari browser with Opera mini.

 
 
Posted by Rob Laguna Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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 versíon 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.

 
 
Posted by BuddyX Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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!!!

 
 
Posted by SuperableZeus Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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!

 
 
Posted by adio Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

my bb bold running on edge kills both of them loading faster on edge than on wifi or 3g

 
 
Posted by 07thking Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by tight_grip Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

is a pretty big site with alot going on so thats why they both load pretty slow

 
 
Posted by MCAP Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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

 
 
Posted by muneton17 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by j7469 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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?

 
 
Posted by dairyman Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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

 
 
Posted by skyboxer Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by lazydogrex Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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.

 
 
Posted by Username00089 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

There is no comparison. Both browsers suck.

 
 
Posted by artie Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

It started ok then the music......

 
 
Posted by kigs Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

thats stupid fast

Iphone users---eat your heart out..dont be jealous you dont have the Storm

 
 
Posted by tommykid999 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Is he on dial-up? This can't be right. That was crazy slow... I'm sure RIM is very excited about these "demos."

 
 
Posted by LoloBond Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

wooooooooooooooooooow..... 56k wifi? BB browsers are garbage...

 
 
Posted by jcrediford Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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?

 
 
Posted by shownuff Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

i did my 8900 @ the same time on wifi and it loaded crackberry faster. Any reason?

 
 
Posted by yorkkid11 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

now how is that suppose to compete with an iphone's browser?

 
 
Posted by Esco23 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

is easily 4-5 times faster...

 
 
Posted by mched Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

My Ipod Touch loaded faster than both of those!!!

 
 
Posted by kinggeoff Monday, Sep 14, 2009 882 days ago

most blackberries on the planet

this video is messed

 
 
Posted by alexihnen Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Something's funky - the crackberry site took just 35sec to fully load on my T-mobile Curve.

 
 
Posted by rudybikerpunk Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

I would like to see a Competing vs Like Storm 2 vs storm 1 vs iphone vs tour and palm pre

 
 
Posted by LoloBond Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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!!!

 
 
Posted by ohembe Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Wow...It must be his wifi. It took 30 seconds for me to load the crackberry site on my 8900 using wifi

 
 
Posted by leroypinto123 Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

Did you clear cache? cuz that might be why urs loaded quickly

 
 
Posted by wcihlu Sunday, Sep 13, 2009 883 days ago

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