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PC Magazine: Hands-on with new Windows Mobile browsers

Published February 13th, 2008 4:43 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

PC Magazine today posted a run-down of some of the new Web browsers for Windows Mobile. They reviewed Opera Mobile 9.5, Torch Mobile, ACCESS, and Skyfire.

Overall, they had some pretty nice things to say about the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 browser.

“Opera Mobile 9.5 significantly pumps up the existing Opera Mobile 8.6 browser.”

“Opera’s UI is sleeker, with attractive, gray menus and a full-screen mode where the menus disappear completely.”

“Most powerfully, though, Opera Mobile 9.5 supports Web widgets, which are little applications developed in AJAX and HTML that display various chunks of information, like sports scores or weather. Opera’s widgets are similar to Google’s, Yahoo’s, Apple’s and Windows Vista’s on the desktop.”

(Read the PC Magazine article)


(The menu on Opera Mobile 9.5)

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  1. 1 WildEnte Feb 13th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows XP

    what engine does skyfire use? webkit?

  2. 2 nilsson Feb 13th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows Windows XP

    Skyfire is Gecko-based, like Firefox. Basically it’s a VNC client running the browser on a server, so they are able to show anything that is rendered in the real browser.

  3. 3 WildEnte Feb 13th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows XP

    which will help it show most sites as intended. Interesting concept.

  4. 4 Cyro Feb 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    @nilsson: Interesting concept indeed. Is it a real vnc server or something look-a-like?

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