[alese]

Well I flashed new ROM on my Advantage.
And I can say that IE 6 Mobile works on current hardware (well technically previous generation as I have a year old X7500).
So how does it work - OK, I'm actually posting this in IE 6 Mobile and the whole experience is not all that bad.
Pages load roughly on par with latest Opera Mobile 9.5 beta2, and for the most part they render exactly as on desktop (normal version of Google Reader didn't load, but while it does load in Opera it doesn't work so OK.
Rendering is actually a problem, as it doesn't squeeze the page to the width of thej screen and you have to scroll left and right in order to see the whole page. Unless of course if you use zoom out. In general zoom works OK, but it's not nearly as intuitive as in Opera or Safari. There is no double tap to zoom in/out you havbe to do it old fasion way, with menues. And this old fasion way is really how the whole application feels, the look and feel is old fasion, you have (old fasion) scrool bars visible, full screen is not automatic or default...
Basically application feels exactly the same as desktop version of IE6 including the fact that it doesn't have tabs.
But it does play YouTube videos - slowly of course.
You get an impression that they basically recompiled the desktop version on Windows CE and ARM...

I guess it's a huge step forward for Microsoft and in some ways it's great, but I would say that in general it still lags the modern mobile browsers in regads to UI and whole user experience.

[alese]

Well I flashed new ROM on my Advantage.
And I can say that IE 6 Mobile works on current hardware (well technically previous generation as I have a year old X7500).
So how does it work - OK, I'm actually posting this in IE 6 Mobile and the whole experience is not all that bad.
Pages load roughly on par with latest Opera Mobile 9.5 beta2, and for the most part they render exactly as on desktop (normal version of Google Reader didn't load, but while it does load in Opera it doesn't work so OK.
Rendering is actually a problem, as it doesn't squeeze the page to the width of thej screen and you have to scroll left and right in order to see the whole page. Unless of course if you use zoom out. In general zoom works OK, but it's not nearly as intuitive as in Opera or Safari. There is no double tap to zoom in/out you havbe to do it old fasion way, with menues. And this old fasion way is really how the whole application feels, the look and feel is old fasion, you have (old fasion) scrool bars visible, full screen is not automatic or default...
Basically application feels exactly the same as desktop version of IE6 including the fact that it doesn't have tabs.
But it does play YouTube videos - slowly of course.
You get an impression that they basically recompiled the desktop version on Windows CE and ARM...

I guess it's a huge step forward for Microsoft and in some ways it's great, but I would say that in general it still lags the modern mobile browsers in regads to UI and whole user experience.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Xentrax

I beleive that the real issue with bringing new IE to current devices is that it should be separate download. I cannot remember much separate downloads from Microsoft for CE devices that replace exisiting functionality.

I recall a few downloads. At one point early in the Pocket PC history, I think you could download a later version of Windows Media Player (without the garish colors). I believe there were also downloadable versions of Messenger (after a fix broke logging in) and Microsoft Reader. I also recall being able to download most (if not all) of the differences between Pocket PC 2002 Premium and Pocket PC 2002 Professional.

In general, though, downloading should only be a temporary fix until a ROM update is available. Those programs will take up storage memory and disappear if you do a hard reset, so you really want them in ROM.

Steve

[hursto75]

I really don't care if they get rid of Explorer, I haven't used it since I got the phone. After finding out all the stuff Explorer didn't do it was easy to switch to Skyfire. Plus what is the reason to have 3g if you can't watch flash video once in a while.

Thanks,

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by hursto75

Plus what is the reason to have 3g if you can't watch flash video once in a while.

Slingbox

Steve