|
|
 Mobile Windows News |  Podcasts |  Videos |  Store | Search | Forums | Site News |
|
First non-Microsoft web browser for MS Smartphone available but is it really a web browser? October 22, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. This "web browser" works only in combination with a service subcription and connection to the special proxy server. It is not working separetely like Pocket Internet Explorer or like Opera. 
(on picture above: ThunderHawk running in MS Smartphone 2002 in a Split Screen Mode) ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition is Bitstream´s first Web browser for smart phones. It relies on a server infrastructure combined with a small piece of thin-client code on the actual handheld device. Full info follows. * * * * * Bitstream Introduces Alpha Version of ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition Latest version of client-server technology for wireless Web browsing brings its robust feature set to cell phones Bitstream Inc. today previews the alpha version of ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition, its wireless Web browsing technology for cell phones. ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition uses a server infrastructure combined with a small piece of client code on the handheld device. The server converts Web content into a compact format and sends it to the client on the handheld device, making fast and full-featured wireless Web browsing possible even with the wireless industry’s current slow data speeds. This release brings to cell phones the display power ThunderHawk has already demonstrated on Pocket PCs. ThunderHawk speeds the reading of columns of Web text by eliminating left-right scrolling to finish a line and move to the next. And ThunderHawk makes it easy to find information because it maintains the layout already familiar to the viewer without re-flowing pages into one-dimensional structures. Besides its full-screen mode, ThunderHawk also offers a convenient split-screen mode, with the entire page in the upper half to orient the viewer and a highlighted area at full reading size in the lower window. With its support for key HTML standards like CSS and DHTML and security protocols like SSL and 128-bit encryption, ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition enables wireless carriers to provide complete Web browsing to their customers. ThunderHawk removes the need for operators to build a limited number of specialized or streamlined websites for end users. The ThunderHawk thin-client solution is economically appealing because of shared hardware resources, allowing for a low financial investment over time. “We’ve now focused the time-tested Bitstream font rendering skills on the cell-phone screen, enabling clear and easy display of a Web page on a 176-by-220-pixel SmartPhone viewer,” explains Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. “Wireless carriers can offer ThunderHawk to differentiate themselves from other carriers who deliver only text-based pages or WAP- or cHTML-based pages,“ she continues. “Our ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition lets ThunderHawk customers, whether browsing privately or logging on to a corporate intranet, gain immediate access to the information they need, in a format they instantly recognize.” * * * * * Related links:  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
   |
| Mobile Windows News | Podcasts | Videos | Store | Search | Forums | Site News |
