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Now I know that it's not final software/hardware, but does it not worry anyone that the WP7 browser doesn't render Google correctly?

Obviously they have time to fix it, but isn't that one of the first things they should have working?
 
My iphone doesnt checkerboard like that. In fact, only my old beaten to death ipod touch 2g does that. Plus those web pages were loading alot slower than normal.

The windows phone looks good if it was only a Zune. That UI looks terrible for a phone.
 
that win 7 UI is UGLY, I can't see how many people will want a phone with bright orange boxes instead of nicely drawn icons.
 
iOS shows the checkerboard pattern instead of rendering the page in some cases because of a design decision to make smooth scrolling as consistent as possible even if it means delaying the display of actual content.
 
These tests aren't particularly meaningful. They're usually more dependent on network speed. As far as actual rendering only the Android phone fared poorly because it wasn't smooth.

On my iPhone4 I tried Amazon and Gizmodo and could only get checkerboards when scrolling quickly down and even then they were brief flashes and not the longer times of checkerboard city I was getting with my old 3G. I'm guessing it's a memory management thing.

But more than anything, the WP7 browser UI seemed just awful. I hope they seriously improve it because having things like Windows style checkboxes and radio buttons on a phone is just poor UI design. The tab management didn't look good either. The thumbnails were tiny even with just one tab open and the close buttons were huge. I imagine you'd end up accidentally closing tabs a lot.

Another thing I worry about is rendering engine features. Is it based on IE9 tech or some old crap that won't support CSS3 or any other modern web features?

Now that the top smartphones are all roughly on the same level as far as performance goes, it comes down to usability. So far Apple is still the leader in that area IMO.
 
Another thing I worry about is rendering engine features. Is it based on IE9 tech or some old crap that won't support CSS3 or any other modern web features?

It's stuck halfway between IE7 and IE8, so it's really bad.

I've tried it out (in the emulator) and it struggles to render quite a few sites, not just Google as seen in the video.

The touch version of Facebook was a no-go for example - the phone defaults to the mobile version. The touch version rendered incorrectly.

It has no Flash (it will later), no Silverlight and of course - no HTML5. Technologies like SVG wont work either.

With the competition from WebKit in both iOS and Android (as well as just about every other mobile platform these days), MS would have been taking a gamble with IE9 - IE7 is a joke!
 
These tests aren't particularly meaningful. They're usually more dependent on network speed. As far as actual rendering only the Android phone fared poorly because it wasn't smooth.

Well if android showed checkerboxes like iphone then it would be smooth too.
 
I am impressed that iOS4 keeps up with Froyo in this test.
 
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