iPhone Browser

[Fear No Evil]

Recently had dinner with a friend who had an iPhone 4.. at least I think it was a 4, it had the metal band all around it? I assume that means its the 4? Anyways.. He pulled up a webpage on it and handed it to me, I immediately lost all signal on the phone..

Just kidding..

Anyways, I started scrolling on the web page and I got a lot of the checkerboard pattern as I scrolled, much like I did on my old Palm Pre. Is that normal? I would have figured browsing would have been faster. On my EVO I don't get the checkboard, the webpage seems to be all loaded into memory already.

I guess I was surprised that the browsing experience didn't seem very smooth to me at all. I assumed the Pre did it because of lack of memory or processing speed.

 

[TheStu]

It might have been due to signal in the area. If it is was a slower or weaker signal then that might explain the checkerboarding. Also, how quick were you scrolling and how big was the page?

 

[Kmax82]

The checkerboard is a result of pages that haven't fully loaded. Once they're loaded, you won't see that when scrolling pages.

 

[zacharace]

The checkerboard is a result of pages that haven't fully loaded. Once they're loaded, you won't see that when scrolling pages.

...and the speed of this depends on the signal type/strength (eg, 3G vs EDGE) and the complexity of the Web page itself

 

[Fear No Evil]

Ok, it might have just been AT&T then. I forget which page it was but was larger and probably took a bit to load.

 

[gorcorps]

I browse AT all the time and it loads pretty quick on my iphone 4. You might not have been in a 3G area, or a very solid 3G area, or he has something else going on that may be causing the phone to run slower than normal. Or I might just be used to it... I mean it still takes 3-4 seconds once you click a link on AT for it to load fully w/out checkerboard (for me at least)

 

[ViRGE]

I can make the AT frontpage go checkerboard after it's loaded even on my iPhone 4 by scrolling very fast, so the OP isn't the only person seeing this. I think it's an aggressive memory optimization on Apple's part (as opposed to only being processing limited), but I could be wrong.

 

[Kmax82]

I can make the AT frontpage go checkerboard after it's loaded even on my iPhone 4 by scrolling very fast, so the OP isn't the only person seeing this. I think it's an aggressive memory optimization on Apple's part (as opposed to only being processing limited), but I could be wrong.

Ah.. you're right. I've never noticed it. Guess I'm a slow scroller.