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raye
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A reasonable browser would help

I preface this by saying I have a Windows Mobile Smartphone. The degree of "suck" is unparalled. It is not all Microsoft;s fault, but even if phone providers opened up and allowed freedom for development IMHO Microsoft Windows is not the OS to build a mobile platform. Even though there are reasonably good browsers available (i.e. Opera Mini) my telco provider will not support them. Opera Mini needs java to work; I think Microsoft also has an offering (I forget the name).

Internet connectivity on Sprint 3G is quite good. Phone technology has not yet caught up. iPhone looks promising; however no 3G or Exchange ActiveSync supports mean I will wait.
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Combat Chuck
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said by raye See Profile :

Phone technology has not yet caught up.
As far as I can tell phone technology is fine as it is, the problem is mobile web is expensive and providers give us sucky browsers.

I can't think of any reason why my Samsung SCH-u740 can't view many of the pages I can't view; it's got a decent sized screen, a full keyboard, plenty of memory, and the thing can play video so processing power shouldn't be a problem; the problem seems to be the crappy web browser Verizon stuck me with doesn't like large pictures and copes with pretty much any error by just not displaying the page at all (rather than falling back to text).
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A reasonable mobile browser exists ... It's called an iPhone. You don't even need "lo fi" BBR when browsing with it. I used windows mobile for years and just can't beleive how much more usable the Internet is on mobile safari with the pinch and stretch action.

(and yes, I posted this from my iPhone)
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