iPhone 3GS vs. HTC Hero

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Part 1 of a series comparing the 2 phones. This round, it's browser & keyboard.

[Chaddledee]

BTW, the Hero is not opening it in a youtube player. It just automatically makes it go into full screen. If it were in the youtube player, it would not have the youtube watermark.

[BeccaBasilisk]

I love how on the HTC you can have a bunch of live apps on the screen ready, but Iphones you need to search for the app, open it, and it takes a lot longer.

[thebook]

The iPhone also has the special keys feature, you just need to hold the key a little longer than the hero.

[joshley]

you can also get numbers and other symbols on the HTC Hero by pressing and holding each of the keyboard buttons !

[brewnomars]

yeah, Jon your hand keeps covering the screen (ie when u're zooming in and out the phones' screen)

[fourdoormafia]

the hero only has adobe flash 9 as of now

flash 10 will be available in october

thats why videos wont work

you can play games and watch flash 9 videos though.

also the reason why the zooming is that way on hero is because it adjusts the text when you zoom so you dont have to pan left and right to view all text

[JEFF]

Good video, some good tests also. Although I would have been interested to see a browser speed comparison when not using Wifi just to see whether it's the HTC's wifi adapter that's slower than the iPhone or whether it's the HTC's browser in general.

Personally I find Wifi with some hubs can be painfully slow on my iPhone and often 3G data is even faster.

I'm torn between just getting a 3GS or trying out something with Android as my next phone.

[crazedfreak]

I think the cutting edge software and overall impressiveness of such a radical new phone is what made the iphone what it is when it first came out, but i think the app store is what will keep the iphone what it is as other companies catch up such as htc and palm

[arron]

yes what about the flash games and the so many flash contents with informations on the htc hero ???

[wezternator]

the browser test wasn't a fair test.
1. the iPhone had been to that site before and cached it (I don't own an iPhone but I know people who do and it doesn't load pages that quick - although its still very quick mind).

2. The Hero obviously hadn't been there and it had to download everything (Style sheets, Images etc)

3. The iPhone skips flash elements - of what there were a lot of on the pages you chose, the Hero downloads them all and then renders them so it will take slightly longer.

my 2p

[Harpreet]

turns out apple has copyrighted that feature in the browser when it bounces bak after u scroll up while at the top. thats prob y htc hasnt got it.

[erinkpgh]

How do I get rid of the pop-up ad in the top left corner (link to another video)?

[haticK]

Put your mouse over the up arrow on the bottom of the video and click the button that says turn off annotations.

[marcoantoniomirandar]

iPhone's web browser is quicker and more fluid as you said but it lacks of the ability to play Flash content, which really ruins it with the browser. Now, the keyboard on the iPhone, i don't know if it's just me but i often have problems typing long and/or complex words with it. I would really recommend Apple (if I could of course.) To fix that bloody keyboard by making the keys bigger or something else.

[brianvntura]

the iphone broswer is quicker and smoother beacuse there is a lot of things running in the background of the hero's broswer. like flash content. and plus whenever you zoom in and zoom out on hero.. it actually renders text to where u can read everything with just going up and down. on iphone u have to scroll left to right and down and up.

and pluz optimization is needed on heros htc sense ui and i have noticed before is that hero tend to lag a bit whenever on wifi.

[grandandtoyrocks]

a qwerty keyboard is a qwerty keyboard once you get used to one you can pretty much type the same speed on any phone with a qwerty keyboard

[EliasJensn]

Well the hero is a Mid-range and the 3gs is a high-end device so not a fair test at all try a pro touch 2. they are in the same price class.

[Ezlo-Faron]

There is a program called 'hotspot shield' which can be used for watching hulu outside the US

[djLynchy]

i have a htc hero my mates got an iphone he keeps breaking screens every time he drops his but on the htc hero it is slightly angled at the bottom meaning if its dropped the screen wll not be in contact with the floor also i found the htc screen feels more robust than the iphone

[gordoncjx]

I am a symbian and an iPhone user! But I was wondering whether should I switch to an andriod phone..