Comments on: Firefox Mobile coming to HTC Touch Pro as soon as next week

By: Edward Virtually

Edward Virtually — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:45:23 +0000

1. this thread is about the _touch pro_, not the g1
2. apple’s fascist app store means iphone cannot be better, period.

By: HomeBusinessOpportunityOnline

HomeBusinessOpportunityOnline — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:48:40 +0000

i tried htc g1 for 2 weeks, iphone is much better..

By: celz

celz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:10:28 +0000

@ jordan just curious have u used a fuze? and if u have whats not too like?

By: celz

celz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:08:28 +0000

not the best phone for browsing lol are u serious.. IE mobile is the best at browsing mobile only sites (and with tcpmp youtube u can launch from many video sites and save or play them), opera mobile is an equal to safari(it has one finger gesture zoom and unzoom, and auto text adjust to zoom), skyfire plays any video from any site, and iris is available if u must have a webkit browser (webkit is the opensource engine google and apple chose for their phone browsers).. oh yea opera mini is great in a java virtual machine very fast and simple like ie mobile but renders pages great… with 3g and a vga screen the touch pro aka fuze has a better web experience than ANY phone.. period.

I dont really think firefox will top opera but Ill try it.

By: Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:14:36 +0000

This is good news.. Because the Fuze is not the best phone for web browsing.

By: pji

pji — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:23:52 +0000

It has great potential. Until it supports plugins, though, I’ll stick with Opera mobile on the Touch Pro. I’ll be playing with Fennec in Ubuntu

By: neodorian

neodorian — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:32:06 +0000

I believe Fennec renders everything locally like a traditional browser whereas Skyfire is essentially sending you an image of something rendered remotely.

By: divertito

divertito — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:35:11 +0000

Does anyone have any info on Fennec vs. Skyfire?

By: neodorian

neodorian — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:26:54 +0000

I was talking about Fennec, not 6.5. I have no idea what they are doing with that. They need to bust their asses and get WM7 out. WM used to be one of the best smartphone OSes that brought the closest thing to the desktop experience to the mobile world. They have fallen way behind and it’s only partly about the interface. The interface is not so hot these days but I would deal with interface bandaids all day long if it meant a more updated and more powerful underlying OS that took proper advantage of modern mobile hardware and kept the software choice and customizability that made WM good years ago.

By: Drewkkake

Drewkkake — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:20:26 +0000

Well the honeycomb is pretty much just for the app launcher, so… why wouldn’t it be anything other than a “band-aid?” You want them to pioneer a new method for pressing buttons to launch programs?

The Zune/sliding panels UI has a similar role for the Today screen as far as we’ve seen. Whether Microsoft works on making the deeper menus more touch-friendly, and optimized the core to make it snappier, will decide if 6.5 is a “band-aid.”

By: Ervel Flick

Ervel Flick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:16:11 +0000

Tried it out on my N810 – definitely still an alpha, but it’s got a lot of good potential.

By: neodorian

neodorian — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:15:51 +0000

Everyone that can handle it at least. I’m still holding on to my Mogul until the new round of devices this summer but I wonder whether this will run well on it. Either way I still have Opera until then.

By: Lilman

Lilman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:52:16 +0000

Windows mobile is on the come back.
Hopefully Windows mobile 6.5 is a big change.
Firefox mobile and now all we need is the blackberry application suite.

By: Cannon

Cannon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:40:46 +0000

If it’s coming out for the Touch Pro, then the wizards at XDA will make sure it comes out for everybody with a WinMo device.