nathanjb
05-01-2010, 07:57 AM
This is a great browser with a few annoyances, and one glaring frustration. First the good: It is plenty fast. Others are faster(Opera and Steel) but not by much. It has true tabs, unlike Opera and Skyfire that use windows like the iPhone Safari browser. The swipe to next tab feature is essential (come on Opera and Skyfire, no tab swipe?! Major fail) and I use it constantly. The long press link to open in new tab is nice as well. Almost never crashes on me (It will freeze with low battery or when my signal drops). Scrolling menu and tabs is pretty cool too. Long press picture or video to download, or play if available, makes it easy to save things. Now the Bad: Favorites is kinda wonky (When you tap favorites, it opens a new page instead of just a list I can choose from. Pretty lame but still usable) Copy and paste is pretty useless, though I never really use it. I don't need a task manager (I use Advanced Task Killer), they could have left that out. The glaring frustration? The zoom is terrible. Now this may be user error, but the "pin" zoom is wicked dumb. I am on a Sprint Hero so no pinch zoom yet(Would you update already Sprint...Jeez!!), so I am relegated to Pin zoom because double tap zoom is very limited. Pin zoom is essentially a double tap but you keep it pressed on the second tap. Unfortunately I am constantly tapping a link or picture(that is a Link) and opening it instead of zooming. And, when it does work, it is way too sensitive. I have learned to live with it but I can't wait for pinch zoom or they could add long press to zoom like Dolphin and Steel. Opera, Dolphin, and Skyfire are more polished in looks, but they lack certain core features, which keeps me coming back to x Scope as my go to browser.