I just finished catching up on today's PA articles and saw Jennifer's post about the Ars Technica review of the Nokia 770. What really jumped out at me was the comment about web browsing being slow and some sites being painfully slow to load up. This was the exact same opinion I had of browsing the web from my OQO... some sites were fine, but many were slow and if using Firefox and multiple tabs, I needed to be prepared to wait. My testing showed it was most AJAX, javascript, java, and flash sites, but also sites that had lots of images or advertisers including links to offsite domains. I had thought it was an OQO thing or perhaps the Transmeta processor, but the Nokia 770 has an entirely different CPU and seems to suffer the same issues. This makes me think its either Firefox (which doesn't sound right as it performs just fine on my desktops) or just the way newer sites are designed in the age of broadband everywhere. Or perhaps its an x86 emulation thing... neither the OQO nor the Nokia 770 has a true Intel processor.
Related, I received quite a few emails asking me if I could put the entire three-part review into a single page. I've done so and it can be viewed here.
-Andrew Davis, Associate Writer (Somewhere, CA)
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