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What happens when you take an iPhone 4, Nexus S and HTC Windows Phone 7 to the web? The HTC Windows Phone 7 device walks away a winner. In a video captured at Microsoft’s MIX conference this morning, the company showed off the progress they’ve made with their mobile IE9 browser and hardware acceleration.
Using a HTML5 speed reading demo, Windows Phone VP Joe Belfiore gave the iPhone 4 a head start and then (nearly) simultaneous opened the same page on the Nexus S and HTC Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Granted, this is not a reflection of every browsing scenario, but it is still quite impressive. It appears HTML5 standards based native browsing with hardware acceleration is the way to go.
Now that you’ve seen the video evidence has your opinion of Windows Phone 7 changed? For me the IE9 hardware acceleration looks promising, but I’ll need to see a Windows Phone update roll out without a hiccup before I retire my iOS and Android smartphones.
YouTube [via AndroidandMe]
