Holy **** this thing is fast.
I mean seriously, they must be rendering most of the stuff on their servers (a la Opera 9.7) and then uploading the page to us as an image file or something.
For example, the time it takes to
FULLY load a couple of the websites is as follows:
Nytimes.com:
Iris Browser (1.1.6) = 1 min 20 secs
Opera Mobile (9.5) = 1 min 13 secs
Bolt = 9 secs
Just for kicks: Desktop (Opera 10.00 1) = 2 secs
9 seconds!
Engadget.com:
Iris Browser (1.1.6) = 1 min 45 secs
Opera Mobile (9.5) = 1 min 30 secs
Bolt = 9 secs
Just for kicks: Desktop (Opera 10.00 1) = 2 secs
9 seconds, again.
Seriously, this thing is almost as fast as my laptop/desktop
Plus, scrolling throughout a page/site is silky smooth.
No choppiness whatsoever, and also no more checkerboard backgrounds.
They need to tweak the UI to make it more finger-friendly, and allow you to run flash-based videos directly within the browser instead of saving it then playing it with your media player, but aside from that, this is my new browser of choice.
Amazingly fast and renders impeccably well.
Running an HTC Touch Pro on Sprint EVDO-Rev A