Windows Phone 7 hasn’t hit the shelves yet but it’s already scored a win in a showdown against the newly arrived Blackberry Torch 9800. Pitted in a battle of the browsers, a Windows Phone 7 prototype outclassed the freshly picked Blackberry and the new Blackberry 6 OS. Is it just a one off or a real worry for RIM?
On the Engadget Show, Joshua Topolsky put the Windows Phone 7 prototype against the new Blackberry Torch to test the smarts of Internet Explorer on the unfinished OS against the skills of the new Blackberry 6 browser. The Windows Phone 7 handset scored a surprise win.
We were reasonably impressed with the Blackberry browser during our Blackberry Torch 9800 hands-on but in its clash with Windows 7 Phone it came off worst. Viewers report that IE on Windows Phone 7 appeared fast and responsive while the Blackberry browser struggled.
We recently saw a similar upset when Android 2.2 Froyo beat iOS 4 in a browser face-off but we can’t be sure that Windows Phone 7 will really outgun Blackberry until we get both phones side-by-side. We know the Blackberry Torch 9800 will have at least one thing over IE on Windows Phone 7 – support for HTML5 out of the box.
From what you’ve seen of Windows Phone 7 and the Blackberry Torch 9800 so far, which would you favour if we could magic a mobile into your hands right now?
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