As I waited (and waited), for my upgrade to finish yesterday, I was visiting websites to see if anyone was having any issues, (there were a few, but looked to be few and far between) I completed the upgrade and must say I was pleased, with folders. This was my favorite pare of IOS 4. Multi-tasking will not work currently as the app must support the function and not just the OS.
I am sure as time goes on the multi-tasking will become viable as more vendors update their applications to take advantage of the multi-tasking, but it’s not there yet.
The update to mail is cool too. I like the unified inbox. (I wish they would put this ability into the desktop mail app.) I am running an iPhone 3GS and I’m not sure if it is an optical illusion, but my phone seems to be running MUCH faster. Now I do have some friends that upgraded their iPhone 3g and had more issues. it took much longer to install, also they got the mail fix and the folders, but were disappointed with the inability to set the wall paper.
What is your favorite part of the IOS 4 update. Leave it in the comments.
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Here are the numbers for the browser benchmark article. The numbers for Safari 5 and webkit were identical.
SPEED WARS.
With the browser speed wars escalating almost daily I hate to say that I had given up hope on the Opera browser. The Opera releases are always touted as being the “fastest on earth”, when in reality they limped doggedly at the hind end of the pack. Recently I had read about the newest offering of the 10.6 beta, with a claimed 50% increase in certain java tests I figured that it was just another claim that would not live up to my expectations.
I was wrong.
I used the PeaceKeeper benchmark on my iMac duo core 2 gig machine. I tested Safari 5, WebKit, Chrome, and Opera. (Sorry to all of the FireFox fans, but the Mozilla browser never seems to come close to the others in the speed tests, so I didn’t test it this time.)
Opera won. Let me repeat that OPERA WON. It smoked both of the Safari offerings by 1,000 points, and slid past Chrome by 190 or so. It seems the the folks over at the Opera lab have finally got something going on. Other than that they have always been the top of the heap when it comes to rendering engines. Opera has consistently lead the way in the rendering tests, but used to fall woefully short in many of the other arenas. Not this time. Evidently the 50% increase was targeting at the correct areas and now the browser screams. If you like the speed of Chrome, but are looking for something different, try the Beta offering of Opera. You won’t be disappointed.
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