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 (WinMo for short) 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 article. The latter one, 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.

more at:
http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blo...cl-iem6-review

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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
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