It's been almost a year since
RIM picked up Torch Mobile and locked its newly acquired division in a closet, telling those coders to not come out until BlackBerry had a world-class browser. Early tests from Salomondrin, the self-described "007 of the Phone World," indicates that those tired engineers can now finally go home and get some sleep. The new WebKit-based browser, a part of
BlackBerry OS 6.0, managed a score of 208 on the
Acid HTML5 tests, measuring browser compliance and performance. Meanwhile the
iPhone 4 scored 185 and
HTC's Incredible pulled down 151. Mind you, benchmark performance doesn't always equate to real-world browser responsiveness, but regardless this is good news for CrackBerry addicts. The only question now is: when will they get their fix?
Update: The browsers were run through a suite of tests, and the above scores were actually from
The HTML5 Test!
posted July 20th 2010 12:44PM
NOW!! vote your in cast Engadget.
? Ranked high or ranked down be I will decide to you to up is now !!FIRST
@FrankDTank My bet is on down, although I really cant understand the rest of that...uh...well, we'll call it a sentence.
@FrankDTank
Go BlackBerry! I will dump the Curve and get some 3G now.
@FrankDTank
I'm sorry? The i-Door is right over there..
@FrankDTank
"Mind you, Acid performance doesn't always equate to real-world browser responsiveness"
Wow so now after Internet Explorer being ridicule for its sad Acid Test performance, Engadget makes it sound like it's no longer important because their God's baby has been trump? It's a shame such a display of fanboism on a gadget blog.
Oh well it's Engadget afterall...
@angelusp
You could basically say Apple started the Webkit project backi in early 2002 I believe.
@angelusp
All you really have to know is that the motherland APPLE made it popular.
Who cares about the kde software libarry or konqueror pssst thats linux crap. only 0.2% of the population care about it.
HAIL APPLE!!
False. Webkit was part of the KDE project before apple ever even heard of it. Apple just decided to rename it to webkit from khtml and be big douches about sharing their source code.
@reuvenb Like I said who cares about KDE, KDE LIBRARY SOFTWARE,KHTML?
What the world cares about NOW is webkit. And who made it popular?
You got it.
Just like does the world care about the true origins of mac os x?
Geeks we know it all. We know how apple works. They did it with their OS and they did it with webkit. But the majority of the world dont know KDE or just dont care. Is all about apple!
@nickcraze
It's a standards test, not a speed test.
A good score merely indicates that a browser supports a lot of HTML5 features. It could do so yet also be very slow.
However, a browser doing very badly at this test would be a good reason to ridicule it, especially if it's a browser like IE that's also just not very fast.
@nickcraze Dude, I use a Droid. If anything my "baby" came in last here.
@treats
This was the video that RIM pulled from YouTube because it inadvertently showed the "death grip" issue.
http://theurbangeek.com/2010/07/20/rim-pulls-death-grip-videos-from-youtube/
@reuvenb right, by that you mean made it good.
@FrankDTank
KDE is a resource hog even windows vista worked/installed better/faster on my pc. It took like 5 hours to install OpenSuSe 11.3 with KDE4.4.4. And after that it didn't even recognize my internet-connection. Gnome FTW! :P
But ontopic:
I had already seen that blackberries web-browser was better than the competitors.
@FrankDTank
Did you really just say HAIL APPLE?
I hope you work for these guy's or their stock price is making you lots of $.
@nickcraze
You could stop reading it..
@SIGS49 Stock price in @ 78.45 :)
@Ceyran
i'm running OpenSUSE 11.3 just fine on my tiny netbook. Your pc must be some piece of crap.
@Rwilson
no, what I mean is that they took open source software and were dicks about following the license. Big surprise coming from Apple.
@nickcraze
Haven't you heard?
This isn't Engadget anymore...
This is iEngadget.
@angelusp
Webkit was developed and open sourced by Apple.
@Nolano
that explains why the IE6 on my desktop scored a 15......
@nickcraze Seeing how IE only won their own tests, and failed badly at HTML5 compatibility, errrrr Yes, that is correct.
@Sean Connery
Why was I downranked for excusing the Troll? Its a game of catch 22, it seems.
@nickcraze
I am interested how it performs against the N900's default browser which is pretty much the best mobile browser out there right now.
@inspiron41
Disturbingly, IE in WP7 only scored 12....so Windows Phone is worse than IE6, browser-wise. Eugh.
@Sean Connery Clearly a fanboy downranking due to your misuse of their "i". Way too far away from the D. I imagine they smelt you coming before you clicked the submit button.
I still hate Blackberry for killing the best hope of Webkit for Windows Mobile. I know that the browser on the BBs was so bad that they pretty much had to buy a company to fix it, but still.
@FrankDTank I like how Blackberry is comparing a browser that isn't yet available to browsers that are, even though they could test against the new Android browser which may or may not be available before BBOS6 is.
Awesome!! Hope my friends can rejoice about their bbs!
It better be pretty good; the current browser is okay, butt he OS really makes it a pain to use, especially when you want to fill out simple forms.
In your face Jobs ! I wanna get a BB just to support them , they have almost DOUBLE Apple`s market share. And I like Canada/hockey.
What`s a good BB to get ?
@bufbarnaby WTF! does hockey and market share have to do with a smartphone?
If your decision to buy a BB is based on those two factors you are going about it the WRONG way pal!!
@bufbarnaby
Canada = America's Hat
@bufbarnaby
I'm going to wait for the Proidberry portrait slider. It's a hair thicker than the current Bold, but I don't wear skinny jeans so it's okay.
If you need one now, the Bold is the current top of the line BB.
@mopey
Canada = America's Thinking Hat
@mopey
oh no you didn't!
@bufbarnaby Wait for the Storm 3 (not the Storm refresh shown here recently) or the incoming BB Slider.
OS 6 is very nice, and in many ways I'm more impressed by it than Windows Phone 7. I'm considering returning back to BB and leaving my Droid in the future, BB's just work and it's a horrible reason but the constant updates and update schedule drama and the so-so music player and messy UI on Android have my eyes wandering.
@bufbarnaby
Engadget is full of people saying they're gonna do this, they're gonna do that.
Let's be honest, you wouldn't know what to do with a BB anyway
@bufbarnaby
There are no good Blackberries.
@bufbarnaby You want to get a Blackberry running a webkit browser to spite Steve Jobs whose company made webkit? M'kay.
My guess is you are 14 in high school and can't afford either in which case your fictional dollar vote goes uncounted.
@E30 Kid
Only the edible ones.
@TinWard
Just the other day he was saying he was getting a Windows 7 phone. Pathetic. These kids jump on any bandwagon going to try get a bit of popularity.
@pukerocket
Its out of impulse that we 'want' it. We say we're getting it, we usually dont, but thats only because we are excited about technology.
@mopey
"Canada = America's Hat"
Are you calling Canada an asshat?
@TinWard apple did not make webkit. Geez. Another brainwashed fanboy.
@hitdog042
I take it you're gonna tell us who did create it?
Naaah
@uckApple
AKA jumping on whatever the latest bandwagon is
@Opinionated Canadians have better manners and are not braggarts for the most part.
Plus , I just love French-Canadian girls , slender , cute. Not like our American porkers.
Sent from So Cal USA.
@TinWard
Made popular != made.
I'm so sick of apple getting / stealing credit from stolen ideas, when the same fanbois will bash other for 'copying' and honestly admitting. Ah Cupertino, the land of 'me too'... or is it. ..iToo.