Upgrade Suggestions???

[DavidinCT]

As the OP went with, there is (sad to say), nothing wrong with a iPhone 4. It may be a gloified app launcher in my eyes, it does what is it made to do very well. It's fast, smooth and has a awsome display in a mac design "sort of" way. For the most part, if you are not a fanboi of another phone or anything, you would enjoy it and would become a fanboi. I've used a few and no question, it is a very nice phone, just not for me.

IE9 is a major upgrade for the Internet Explorer Line up, will be it become the #1 browser, not sure but, it has a chance. In the WMC Balmer keynote, they showed IE9 against Firefox (new beta) side by side and it was a major(night and day) difference.

Hardware acceration for a browser is a new thing (Why it was not done years ago is beyond me)but, it is shaping to be the trend and it's looking good. Windows Phone 7 getting a mobile Version of IE9 with hardware acceration, it will be a great combo and it might just make "THE BEST" mobile phone browser out there, but time will tell tho.

Verizon will get a WP7 very soon, I would be shocked if we did not see one sometime next month (March), with the Microsoft Program (claiming early 2011), The Copy paste/CDMA update, the noted phones here and there. Same for Sprint but, I don't have sprint, so I don't watch it like vzw

WP7 is still new (4 months now ) compaired to everying else that has had well over a year and 3-4 updates, WP7 is about to release their first. THe reviews say it's great and give it time it will be great. Maybe not number one but, it will take the 2 or 3 spot within a few years (MS has the means and $$ to wait it out).

OP good luck with your iPhone and I would buy your TP2 if I had the $$, my display broke on mine

[gTen]

Originally Posted by DavidinCT

As the OP went with, there is (sad to say), nothing wrong with a iPhone 4. It may be a gloified app launcher in my eyes, it does what is it made to do very well. It's fast, smooth and has a awsome display in a mac design "sort of" way. For the most part, if you are not a fanboi of another phone or anything, you would enjoy it and would become a fanboi. I've used a few and no question, it is a very nice phone, just not for me.

iphones are evil :P

IE9 is a major upgrade for the Internet Explorer Line up, will be it become the #1 browser, not sure but, it has a chance. In the WMC Balmer keynote, they showed IE9 against Firefox (new beta) side by side and it was a major(night and day) difference.

IE9 has come a long way yes..for ONCE they are at least following some standards..always hated that IE made up their own stuff rather then sticked to standards...as for Firefox I hear they are going to pick up the development speed aka it will be 7.0 by the time its 2012...yup 4 versions of firefox this year...that said Firefox 4 beats IE9 in some stuff and looses in other..its improving with every beta build on both IE and Firefox..we will see..

Hardware acceration for a browser is a new thing (Why it was not done years ago is beyond me)but, it is shaping to be the trend and it's looking good. Windows Phone 7 getting a mobile Version of IE9 with hardware acceration, it will be a great combo and it might just make "THE BEST" mobile phone browser out there, but time will tell tho.

Because before the GPUs were not that good..Also Mac for example didnt even allow 3rd parties to do hardware acceleration..Windows XP doesnt have support for full hardware acceleration either..so the bottleneck has been the platforms and hardware, not the browsers..