PC Magazine: Hands-On with New Windows Mobile Browsers
"It's been a while since we've seen some new browser action on Windows Mobile handsets. But everything changed at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as three separate vendors – Opera, Skyfire Labs, and Torch Mobile – showed off slick new browsers, while a fourth – ACCESS – did a technology demo of their own browser. ... Opera Mobile 9.5 significantly pumps up the existing Opera Mobile 8.6 browser. You can now zoom in and out of Web pages, looking at a zoomed-out overview to decide what part of the page you want to focus on. Nokia's and Apple's mobile browsers already do this – not to mention Opera Mini 4.0, Opera's other handset browser – but not on Windows Mobile devices. Opera's UI is sleeker, with attractive, gray menus and a full-screen mode where the menus disappear completely. If you click on an image in a Web page, you get various options to send or save the picture. You can open multiple tabs for Web pages. There's a password manager and a better URL auto-complete function, so you have to type as little as possible. You can save pages offline." 
Windows Mobile users have been suffering the mobile Internet Explorer for a long time. Now a bunch of software companies, some new and some old, are offering alternative solutions. Unfortunately most of them are in Beta stage. I am eagerly waiting for the launch of Opera Mobile 9.5 and Skyfire. Which browser are you waiting for? If you want to learn more about the choices, check out the PC Magazine article.
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