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CommentSunday, November 25, 2007

Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure

10 Comments

By Guest (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/26/2009 - 13:49

small remark

The author wrote:

"Even the iPhone’s browser can disappoint. It has a version of the Apple Safari browser that doesn’t support Flash, a programming language widely used on Web sites, so users are limited in what they can see on the Web.

And, you pay a lot to experience the pain of surfing the mobile Web. Lewis Ward, an analyst at the International Data Corporation, compares the mobile Web today to AOL before it went with flat-rate pricing in the early 1990s. Most people surf on a pay-per-kilobyte model, which encourages them to surf as fast as they can, he says."

I have two comments:

1. If your provider charges you per kb you should be thankful that iPhone ignores Flash. It saves you a lot of money!

2. The amount of money you pay for the service has nothing to do with the iPhone design its features and usability.

--Alik

By Guest (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/26/2009 - 13:37

In my opinion iPhone

In my opinion iPhone provides the best mobile web browser available today. All other mobile web browsers that I've tried are just toys.

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Sat, 11/08/2008 - 22:26

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By lowongan kerja 2009 (WPN reader) - Sun, 11/02/2008 - 06:07

thanks for its article..

thanks for its article.. very helpful.. :)

By James (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/19/2008 - 02:25

that's funny... you can

that's funny... you can surf the web, including flash pages flawlessly, with any old smartphone post 2003. I can even download files directly off of webpages, check gmail.com, or even transfer/play/open/stream files directly off of my home network shares via wi-fi.

By anonymous coward (WPN reader) - Tue, 12/11/2007 - 13:32

seriously

so the first gripe you have for the iphone is that it doesn't support flash, ok lets talk about this for a second. have you BEEN to websites lately that USE flash? no wonder all the ISP's try to upsale their services, its so your beloved FLASH BLOATED webpages load faster. sure, flash is nice. flash is pretty. but in reality all its good for is shooting the ducks or slapping the fat guys belly or creating a PHOTO library.

Once you finished your moaning about flash, you focused your attention on complaining about the EDGE network. obviously, your more of a photographer than you are a technology guru. wireless web, on ANY carrier, is slow. its the nature of the beast. sure, they use buzz words liks broadband speeds and whatnot, but in reality its only a bit faster than dial up.

being the studious persion i am, i decided to run a test of some sorts and time how long it took to load THIS article on my iPhone, my Vz Blackberry and my PC. Funny thing, it wouldn't load on my blackberry. IE just sat there for a long time and then suddenly everything showed up at once on my PC and my iPhone, well took about the same amount of time to load as my PC did, except it rendered parts of the page as they were finished. but hey, maybe its just this site.. or article.

yes, it is true that you can use wifi. but its "too much work?" Really, its ASKS you to join a network. If its secure, it ASKS you for the password. Oh and guess what, it REMEMBERS the password for future use. imagine that. since wifi isn't free apparently anywhere in San Francisco i can see how much easier it is to use your macbook.. oh, wait.. mac book PRO. since obviously you like to throw your weight around. i mean, since it ways of joining wifi networks are.. well.. the same.

so, i guess we're all entitled to our opinions, but unfortunetly your opinion is poorly slated, ill-informed and about three months to late to be taken seriously. go back to what your good at and take a picture of the iphone and tell us whats wrong with the picture instead of the subject.

By Sluggo (WPN reader) - Wed, 11/28/2007 - 15:57

Seriously?

You're disappointed in web browsing on your iPhone? YOU'RE FRICKIN' UNDERGROUND!

Maybe you should keep your perspective and not only take into account your selfish little world before you write an article like that.

Do you get paid for journalism like that? Hope not.

By twr (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/26/2007 - 10:00

sorry

I am sorry you are having such a poor experience with your iPhone. Mine works fine with the web. Speeds not nearly as slow as you describe.

By 910-715-5388 (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/26/2007 - 09:13

So one sided

Apparently you've never used any other 'mobile' browser as you did not discuss comparisons. I have had a Blackberry for years now and am a certified Crackberry user. However, this article describes THAT device's web surfing not the iPhones!

My wife, still mad at me for even buying the iPhone, spent the entire 4 hours driving to Charleston 'surfing' the web down the highway and she NEVER complained - and now she has her OWN iPhone.

And no, she is no longer mad at me for buying my own.

By you suck (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/26/2007 - 00:49