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What you say is very different from the release announcement of GDR1 which is "includes hundreds of enhancements for the mobile web".

When it comes to mobile IE performing poorly, I don't think you need to look further than the software itself.

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The biggest 'improvement' they did to IE in GDR1 is faking user agents so mobile sites think it's an Android browser so the site appears correctly. At the moment, IE on WP does 100/100 in ACID3. It does not support HTML5 as well as Chrome on Android though - but I really doubt that that's the main reason why Google stuff does not work well on it (as the previous example shows it as well).

Not really true, and Google stopped blocking Windows Phone after the outrage.

See "Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7RiMCrZFw

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