IE6 on WM demoed, coming soon
We have heard promises that Internet Explorer 6 on Windows Mobile will be coming before the end of the year, but many people have been doubting that Microsoft could deliver.
Today Brighthand reports that Microsoft have done their part in the end, and have delivered the code to the OEM’s, who will hopefully deliver the software in new devices and as updates to existing devices soon.
According to a Microsoft spokesperson:
We recently gave Windows Mobile device makers the final updates to our new browser. It’s now up to our partners to roll out Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on their handsets; we’re expecting some of the first phones with IE6 to be available in Asia and Europe by the end of calendar year 2008, with U.S. offerings to follow.
The update will finally bring a native Web 2.0 compliant browser (even if it is IE6-based) to WindowsMobile, and in addition full support for Flash up to version 9 and also Silverlight.
The video below (from earlier this year) gives a preview of what we can look forward to. The browsing experience appears fast, and the browser appears to handle flash well, but compared to Opera Mobile 9.5 it does appear to lack the visual pizazz that is so essential these days.
Read more at Brighthand.com
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Personally I dont need visual pizazz at all, opera is definitely the best WM browser at the moment but can be frustrating at times as it sometimes crashes on big sites and is also a huge memory hog. As long as PIE6 renders sites comparable to the way opera does I wont miss Opera on my device.
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I dont know. A lot of the visual effects are useful, e.g. big finger friendly icons, auto-hiding of the toolbar, great zooming effects which make site navigation easier etc. It looks like 6on6 is going to miss a lot of that.
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I couldn’t care less about visuals. The iPhone’s browser is visual-heavy and it’s not exactly on the leading edge of things is it it? I think they should focus on function first and worry about visuals later. Yes the Opera browser has nice visuals, but it really doesn’t compare to the iPhone’s animations. However, the Opera browser isn’t rated as better than the iPhone browser because of visuals. It’s rated better because of it’s functionality. Functionality comes first, visuals come later.
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I just want the flash support!!!
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