Browsing the Web on Windows Mobile
Posted by Chris Leckness on 01/4/09 in Browsers
Menneisyys has posted another one of his famous comparisons in the forums. This time it’s an in depth look at Mobile Browsers for Windows Mobile. Right now his images are missing, but you can still read the review.
After purchasing an iPhone 3G, I immediately fell in love with Safari, its Web browser. Granted, it’s somewhat less capable as the best, comparable Windows Mobile titles (no Flash, no page saving, no copy/paste, no Opera Link, no explicit text size settings, no caching etc.) and, from time to time, it crashes even with the last, 2.2 firmware version, but it’s still much better usable and much faster than anything on Windows Mobile.
Needless to say, seeing the immense success and popularity of iPhone’s Safari, Windows Mobile software developers followed suit and, for quite some time now, have been trying to simulate the interface and easy controllability of Safari. Sure, they can’t circumvent the problems caused by the hardware (namely, the resistive touchscreen, which, in cases, require a lot of pressure, unlike on the capacitive iPhone); nevertheless, the Windows Mobile developers have indeed managed to come up with some really decent alternatives.
In this roundup, I mostly explain how current Windows Mobile Web browsers are able to provide the same user experience as Safari on the iPhone (again, apart from the much inferior hardware, touchscreen-wise). There have been several shots of providing the same; see for example THIS and, most importantly, THIS articles. The latter article, unfortunately, severely lacks in that it only compares Internet Explorer Mobile and Opera Mobile 9.5 – read: no SkyFire, no Iris, no NetFront, no Opera Mini. In addition, the date of the article also shows that it doesn’t test the latest Explorer Mobile 6 and the latest, further enhanced builds of Opera Mobile.
Read on to read the rest of his review…
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![[Post to Yahoo Buzz]](http://mobilitysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-buzz-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Delicious]](http://mobilitysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-delicious-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Digg]](http://mobilitysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-digg-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to Ping.fm]](http://mobilitysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-ping-micro3.png){kind=icon}
![[Post to StumbleUpon]](http://mobilitysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-su-micro3.png){kind=icon}
Written by Chris Leckness · Filed Under Browsers
Tagged: Menneisyys, Mobile Browsers
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