Ranting Kenya

For all you smartphone users that are forced to use Pocket IE (like me), this is a product to check out. I’ve tried installing minimoz, with no luck, and I don’t want to pay for Opera’s mobile browser. So I’ve been using Pocket IE exclusively for the last year. It’s pretty… meh..

Microsoft Deepfish however is another story. For those of your all excited iPhone’s web browsing ability, you should check out Deepfish. I remember seeing the video on the web for Deepfish before the iPhone announcment. So I don’t know if Apple or Microsoft came up with the idea for the method of web browsing.

Basically, rather than needing to load the whole page, and scroll left and right, up and down, it loads the entire web page in a zoomed-out view. Seems the rendering engine is FAR superior to pocket IE’s. The pages look like they should most of the time.

In the zoomed out view, you can then move a box around the page, and that is the area that you can zoom in on. Images look good, pages basically stream to you, but you save so much time not scrolling around trying to figure out where Pocket IE put the link you needed.

I’ve only been using it for a short time, but so far I’d give it a thumbs up. I’ll post again with further impressions in the near future.