Evolution of mobile web browsing
0. phoneArena posted on 22 Jan 2010, 06:54
Mobile web browsing has become a must-have feature for cell phones in the recent years. Thanks to the significant advancement in technologies, we have now reached a stage of ...
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2. tuminatr posted on 22 Jan 2010, 09:08 0 0
just a fyi NetHopper was released in August 1996 and Windows CE 1.0 was released in November 1996. I had a casio casiopea and a GSM aircard in 1996 I also figured out how to teather my Nokia 2190 in 1996. Also the HD2 and Iphone are closer than you think the HD2 uses a 1.0ghz snapdrragon and the 3GS uses a 600Mhz cpu. the HD2 can multitask so there are differences in the devices please a little less bias
5. mbelm64693 posted on 22 Jan 2010, 12:37 0 0
iPhone uses a 833Mhz samsung processor underclocked to 600Mhz
8. rhomaion posted on 23 Jan 2010, 00:05 0 0
@ mblem64693 I don't mean to be a jerk in any sense but I believe Samsung simply has the license to sell them but doesn't actually produce the chips themselves.
14. worldbfree4me posted on 09 Feb 2010, 12:24 0 0
@mbelm64693 The iPhone uses TI’s OMAP 3430 and combines a Cortex A8 CPU core with a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU via Anandtech.com This processor is the same one used in the venerable Palm Pre which like the iPhone maxes out 600mhz but is down clocked to try an preserve battery life...
3. idiotwind13 posted on 22 Jan 2010, 10:23 0 0
To me the browser on the newest Android devices, particularly the Droid and the Nexus One, are better than WebOS as it is on the Pre/Pixi. WebOS does give you multitouch, but so does the N1, and I have found the doubletap on the Droid to be an efficient way to zoom. The big killer for me though is that the Droid is much much faster at rendering pages than the Pre is.
7. Rhetoric posted on 22 Jan 2010, 14:59 0 0
A Huge point that the article fails to mention is that while HTML5 video is all well and good and supported by Chrome and Safari; it isn't and will not be supported by Firefox and Internet explorer. Those are the browsers that control the market and those are the ones that dictate the trickle-down technology handsets get. HTML5 video on youtube is encoded in h.264, and that is a patented/liscenced technology. Firefox will not pay the fees to use that codec, instead they will support Ogg Theora. On the other side, Microsoft will not sabotage its' own initiative with Silverlight by supporting HTML5.
9. KaisenSengen posted on 24 Jan 2010, 13:03 0 0
the article is about mobile browsers you know phones and stuff
11. Hlorri posted on 26 Jan 2010, 02:07 0 0
Rhetoric's huge point is still spon on. The Holy Grail for phone manufacturers and web content providers is precisely to eliminate the need for a separate "molbile" web space (think m.youtube.com), and have "the full web" available on your phone. With that in mind, as soon as a "open" standard such as HTML starts incorporating non-open (e.g. IP protected) elements, it ceases to be open. As such, the premise of HTML5 as an alternative to proprietary technologies (Flash, Silverlight) is significantly eroded, before it even has a chance. In fact, it seems that the XHTML track now has a better chance for becoming the "de facto" markup language than ever, also given its other advantages. For instance, the consistence of XHTML tags vs. HTML makes it a much better candidate for being auto-generated within a web application. (Written on my Nokia N97, using the native browser).
12. Rhetoric posted on 26 Jan 2010, 14:55 0 0
Thanks Hlorri, that's exactly the point i was trying to convey, i may have buried it too deep in my previous post, my apologies.
13. kvenderley posted on 04 Feb 2010, 15:54 0 0
i wish i could get a different browser on my verizon phone...i hate the browser that came on it...and none of the good mobile browsers run on the BREW or whatever that verizon has in their phones...sucks big time. if i can do it, someone tell me please. i have the lg chocolate touch.
