6-Plus Mobile Web Browsers For Business On The Go


More people are working on the road these days than ever, relying as much on their mobile devices as they do on their desktop computers. But doing work on mobile phones can be challenging: mobile browsers render information on a much smaller screen than a standard computer and have less memory and bandwidth. Here are the pros -- and cons -- of some of the more popular mobile Web browsers.



Google Android

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Google Android

The Web browser on Google's Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, is not Chrome but rather is like Chrome in that it's based on the open-source WebKit application framework, which also powers Safari and Nokia's S60 browser. Since the phone was released in October, Android has been available as open source.

The full HTML browser can display rich Web sites and has a zoom feature and a touch-screen interface. You can view in landscape or portrait orientation. (Hint: If you use the landscape mode, you can use your right thumb to scroll around the page.) It doesn't have Flash support and is known to be slow by some, yet at least faster than the iPhone by others. And therein lies a problem -- being a touch-screen phone aimed at consumers (the G1 does not feature Microsoft Exchange), it's endured comparisons to the iPhone since even before its release. The phone's screen is a smidgen larger, yet even though it has a touch screen, it doesn't allow the "pinch" capability so beloved by iPhone users.

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