05-22-2002, 02:47 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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ThunderHawk Finally Lands!
http://www.bitstream.com./wireless/info.html
A few weeks ago, Jason announced the imminent release of the new ThunderHawk Web browser. Well, it's finally here!
The reason so many of us are excited about this release is the beautiful way that ThunderHawk renders Web pages.
"ThunderHawk gives you the same browsing experience on a Pocket PC as you are used to on the desktop. You can view the full text and images of any Web page without excessive scrolling. Because it does not rely on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) or cHTML (Compact HyperText Markup Language), ThunderHawk does not require Web content providers to repurpose their content � or build one Web site for the desktop and another for the wireless world."
What this means is that with ThunderHawk Web pages look about the same on your Pocket PC as they do on your desktop PC. The only part of this that will be kind of hard to swallow is the price: $49.95 PER YEAR (and the Bitstream site calls that an "introductory price"). I know it's so expensive because you're actually accessing Bitstream's proprietary proxy server, but I've got to really love a service before I'm willing to pony up fifty smackers every year.
Somebody who's used this please tell me if it's worth the money...
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05-22-2002, 02:59 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 111
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$49.95 per year!!! 8O geez, what are they thinking? I mean, it's cool, but not that cool.
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05-22-2002, 04:37 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 255
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Will NOT Install
Am I the only person that has downloaded this and can't get it to finish the install ???
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05-22-2002, 05:19 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 513
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This ThunderHawk browser technology on a 4" VGA screen would be pretty cool 
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05-22-2002, 02:40 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 7
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I use it on my 3870 and has no problems so far. The screen displays beautifully and compression works nice. As a test, I browsed to www.news2web.com with PIE and Thunderhawk. PIE downloaded 39K of data, where as Thunderhawk used only 31K. Their compression looks ok, I believe they are utilizing HTTP 1.1 gzip compression.
Keep in mind it is not only the ability to fit all into screen, but also it supports CSS, HTML 4.0, Javascript 1.5 and others (they are all listed on their site)
Cheers,
Sems
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05-22-2002, 02:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 68
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Re: Will NOT Install
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Originally Posted by jdhill
Am I the only person that has downloaded this and can't get it to finish the install ???
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I had this problem also until I realised that I still had the previous version installed on my computer (not PPC). Once I removed the previous version, the new version installed perfectly; it even kept my login/registration information.
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05-22-2002, 03:23 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 1
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Useability Thunderhawk
Tried it for a day now and yes, most sites look much better than with PIE. It's also a bit faster than PIE when using a gsm-phone. It is still very immature though: no bookmarks, no decent history-list, Outlook Web Access doesn't seem to work, scrolling a page is slow and no options/settings to experiment with.
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05-22-2002, 03:47 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 57
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ThunderHawk
Tried the software yesterday and it seems to work OK. Too bad Microsoft has not improved the Pocket IE browser to do the same as Thunderhawk. Will WinCE.net address this issue??
Thunderhawk to me seems pricey when translated to CDN $. Doesn't support external keyboards or favourites folder that I know of. New software is great to try and use, now if only the Pocket PC would come with 256MB or 512MB of RAM standard so that we can run all these nifty programs and still have room for storage.
8O 8O
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05-22-2002, 04:01 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 248
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Somehow I don't trust any vendor with fake screenshots.
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05-22-2002, 04:12 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 64
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Fake?
I'm not sure they're actually fake... granted, the scrollbars aren't PocketPC scrollbars, btu that could just be because they were taken using the PocketPC emulator that comes with the developers kit...
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Linear Mode
