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I've been messing around with Impact on my Dell Streak and I've discovered that performance all falls to the browser ( in my case anyway ).

As a test, I opened up http://www.playbiolab.com/ in the default browser and got quite a bit of lag and no multi-touch support. Sucks right? Since I use Opera on my desktop due to the HTML5 performance, I downloaded Opera Mobile and the results were shocking.

On the mobile version of the game I got full FPS, multi touch input and was able to complete the game. I got full FPS on the ending animation which is a first for me. What was also interesting is if I change the user-agent in Opera to 'Desktop', the game loads perfectly with sound, but because of a lack of a keyboard, I can't progress to test the rest of it.

I just thought this was quite interesting, especially if you were, like me, having issues with the Android default browser.

quite a number of threads on mobile browser performance, especially on Android. feel free to make a search.

What was also interesting is if I change the user-agent in Opera to 'Desktop', the game loads perfectly with sound

Not really, sound is disabled as standard on the web version because most of the web browsers on mobile perform badly and most can only play one sound at a time, rendering the idea of music and effects somewhat moot.

@fugufish To be honest, I didn't search. Didn't think of that.

@Arantor Ah, that makes sense. I just found this interesting in itself, plus I really like Opera. :)