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Windows Mobile Browsers War!

mobiletechbykevin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:46:34 +0000

Introduction

Since the release of the Apple iPhone, the Window Mobile world has been trying to release a competitive browser to Apple’s Safari. Pocket Internet Explorer, first introduced in Windows CE 1.0 around November 1996. Up until the shocking new Safari browsers, surfing the internet through mobile devices had issues. It never display full HTML website correctly.

Now in 2009, there are several new exciting browsers that could compete with Apple Safari.

Iris Browser – http://www.torchmobile.com/

This baby is based upon the same engine as Apple’s Safari. How will it hold up on Windows Mobile?

See it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpX5JZWtu-g

Opera Mini – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455655&highlight=Opera+Mini

A lighten fast browser, but limited support for Flash and other stuff. http://www.opera.com/mini/features/

Opera Mobile – http://www.opera.com/mobile/

The big brother of Opera Mini with flexing power, still in beta but has great potential. Some popular devices such as Samsung Omnia and HTC Diamond comes with this built in and was developed specifically for those devices.

There is a thread on XDA stick hoping to track the latest version / build of Opera Mobile (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486502). Several builds are available out there with slight variation from each other. These had been extracted from the latest ROM released on popular phones, such as Samsung Omnia, HTC Diamond, HTC Touch HD, etc.,

SkyFire – http://www.skyfire.com/

Great potential and support actual Flash pages

See it in action: http://www.skyfire.com/product/demo

Bolt – http://boltbrowser.com/

The latest addition to the WM family. In actual, group behind bolt was in the browser business on WM before others. They had a version pre WM2003!

Fennec – https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile

How can we have a browser war without Mozilla involvement? The team that brought us Firefox on the desktop is working heavily on a Windows Mobile version, code name Fennec. More information to be release soon. They just release their initial pre-alpha (http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/new-firefox-fen.html)

Which one will is the best? Why don’t you try them out and decide. My personal favorite has been the original Pocket Internet Explorer and Iris Browser.

There several flavor of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile port available for Windows Mobile devices. You could find them on http://www.xda-developers.com

Various Opera Mobile Build Versions

NOTE: There are several version of these between QVGA and VGA. Make sure you use the correct one for your device. For example HTC Touch Pro uses VGA version, not QVGA. Samsung Omnia uses QVGA version. Also read the thread and their detail, some version are not unistallable and does require hard reset on your device if you want the original Opera back!

Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 2392 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401643)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 2745 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442252)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15086 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=458542)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15200 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3042791)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15233 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401643)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15316 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467852)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15445 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477179)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15529 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=476447)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15613 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3352911)
Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15746 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3229267)

From the Omina ROM i900XXIB5

Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15895 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486380)

This version is the same as Opera Mobile 9.5 b2 w/ Gear currently found on Opera website. It is not an actual build that was extract from other phones, similar these other builds listed.

Opera Mobile 9.5 Build 15954 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486799)

Speed Tweaks / Tips / Interesting Info

Twelve Opera 9.5 Speed Tweaks (http://namchangkorpa.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/twelve-opera-95-speed-tweaks/)
Browers Performance Smackdown (http://www.pocketables.net/2007/09/browser-perform.html)

Additional Notes / Updates

EDIT 02/26/09: I came across a really good thread from Mennisys @ XDA on browsers for WM devices. Check it out! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467173)

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Verizon Data Plan for Smartphone

mobiletechbykevin — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:32:00 +0000

About a month ago, the BIG RED (Verizon) released a new competitive data plan for personal usage. They call it “Email & Web for Smartphone”. At the moment, only 3 smartphones qualify for this plan, but more will be included down the road.

Unlike the traditional 44.99 unlimited data plan previously, this plan is only 29.99 a month. You won’t have access to verizon push email functionality and it is not intended to work with Outlook Exchange Server. Neitherless it is a cheaper plan with the same limit of data as the more expensive plan.

You can see more detail on it on the Verizon sheet.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/Documents/VZWSmartphone.pdf

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Verizon XV6900 – aka HTC Touch CDMA (HTC Vogue)

mobiletechbykevin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:23:00 +0000

Finally after a long delay, many speculations, and endless sleep for a lot of people, the HTC Touch has been officially released to Verizon as XV6900. It had been launched via http://www.vzw.com website as of 04/16/2008 and might show up in stores around 04/30/2008.

The Verizon XV6900 is the cousin of the HTC Touch released in GSM for T-Mobile in the past. The CDMA version had been released to Sprint as Spring Touch in 2007 with a black rubber cover. Verizon, as always wants to be special and different, decided to release this in an all white shinny plastic cover. It comes standard with Windows Mobile Professional 6.0 (also known as Windows Pocket PC version)

This phone tout a nice 65000 color LCD screen, EVDO Rev A ready (not active), and a nice thin design. It would be nice to have wi-fi on this as well, for poor soul who can’t afford to pay the unlimited data plan. A common comments you will find about this device is the fact why Verizon went with the white shinny cover instead of the nice rubber version Sprint had released. Another comment would be the lack of multimedia offering on this device. Sprint came with Sprint TV. VZ Navigation isn’t available on this device yet.

To make this phone even better is the fact Verizon annouced a new data plan for Smartphone. The Web and Email data plan for Smartphone is only 29.99 unlimited per month. While it currently cover the XV6800 and other smartphones at the moment, it is only time until the XV6900 gets added to the eligiblity list.

Below are some reviews and information on this new device.

HTC Touch Specification
http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=362

Compare XV6900 vs XV6800
http://www.xv6900.com/Compare-the-XV6900-to-the-SMT5800-and-XV6800-Verizon-Phones

User Interface Screenshot
http://www.xv6900.com/XV6900-User-Interface-Screenshots

Interactive E-Learning
http://www.htc.com/uploadedFiles/Common/Training_Guides/HTC_Touch/e-Learning/htctouch.htm

User Guide / Manual
http://www.htc.com/uploadedFiles/Common/Training_Guides/HTC_Touch/Manual/HTC_Touch_English_Manual.pdf
HTC Touch CDMA FAQ
http://www.htc.com/www/FAQ_Detail.aspx?p_id=1&act=faq

HTC Touch CDMA Read Me First Doc
http://www.htc.com/uploadedFiles/Common/Training_Guides/HTC_Touch/QSG/HTC_Touch_English_RMF.pdf
XV6900 Unbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpfWy6tXM0

Verizon XV6900 Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhcWVLdbITo

Sling Player Mobile on XV6900
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o56Oaf4-BmA

Verizon Wireless XV-6900
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXNUK9q6o8

Verizon Wireless XV6900 Browsing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPN6XlG_6U

HTC Commerical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLZiwzNsFQ