What mobile phone browser do you use?

#1 gazza

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Posted 18 May 2008 - 10:04 PM

Those of you regularly surfing on your iPod Touch, Blackberry, Nokia N95, etc will have experience of the provided browser or third party browser. How does it perform, what problems do you experience, what are its good features, etc?

You may be interested in the new mobile browser offering from Opera - Opera Mini 4.1. iTwire today has a first test report on this updated browser and leans very favourably to it:- "Available for almost any (but not all) of the world’s many and varied mobile phones, Opera Mini 4.1 is a true mobile browsing revolution that has just become a whole lot better....faster input of web addresses; ......letting you save web pages on your phone for later offline viewing; handles the downloading of images, ringtones and other content with aplomb; .......in terms of compatibility, Opera Mini has a fine heritage. 2007 saw strong demand for Opera’s embedded browser solution, with 59 handsets being announced with Opera Mini pre-installed........." AND it's free!!

Go to this site for the complete report.

I guess the new iPhone will use a mobile version of Safari, is that what is used on the current iPhone (and iPod Touch)?

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Posted 19 May 2008 - 07:04 PM

Yes Gazza - MobileSafari. It works really well on the iPhone. The way they have used multi-touch for zooming is great, but even better is the double-tap on an area of the screen and 95% of the time it intelligently zooms in on just that location.

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Posted 19 May 2008 - 08:01 PM

QUOTE (AppleConvert @ May 19 2008, 07:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes Gazza - MobileSafari. It works really well on the iPhone.

One difference is that the touch version of Safari doesn't support Flash at all.

Disclaimer: I don't have any mobile devices that have browsers (yet).

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 11:19 AM

Mobile Safari
Opera
Pocket IE
The default one on my N95

Of these, Safari offers the best user experience.

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:52 PM

QUOTE (Anthony Caruana @ May 21 2008, 11:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Mobile Safari
Opera
Pocket IE
The default one on my N95

Of these, Safari offers the best user experience.

Why do you bother having all three browsers if Safari is the "best?" Are there purposes that particular browsers are better at handling, or that others don't cope with at all?

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:55 PM

QUOTE (gazza @ May 21 2008, 01:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why do you bother having all three browsers if Safari is the "best?" Are there purposes that particular browsers are better at handling, or that others don't cope with at all?

gazza

Different devices. I use Opera mobile and the default Nokia one on my N95, Pocket IE on Windows Mobile devices and Safari on my iPod touch.

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Posted 21 May 2008 - 06:15 PM

QUOTE (Anthony Caruana @ May 21 2008, 01:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Different devices. I use Opera mobile and the default Nokia one on my N95, Pocket IE on Windows Mobile devices and Safari on my iPod touch.

Yeah, I knew that????!!!! Just checking!

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