The default BlackBerry browser has long been laughably sad, but it looks like things are about to get better: RIM's just acquired
Torch Mobile, the developers behind the
Iris mobile browser. If you'll recall, Iris is a well-received WebKit-based browser for Windows Mobile that offers tabbed browsing, touch, and a skinnable UI -- and we hear it does a pretty good job rendering pages as well. Of course, since it's Windows Mobile-only at the moment it'll be a while before BlackBerry fans actually see any results from this acquisition, but it's nice to see RIM taking some big steps to address what's become a major shortfall with the platform -- and hey, maybe that extra time is what it'll take to add the promised
full Flash and Silverlight support to the system. Yep, lots of solid potential here -- now if only RIM would build in proper IMAP support, we'd be all set.
[Via
MobileTechWorld, thanks Ike]
posted Aug 24th 2009 11:43AM
Hmmm - looks to me like the mobile browser war may already be over. http://bit.ly/16RvMk
*tear*
RIM.. I salute you!
That's great! And like stated: now let's go for IMAP support. Maybe they should buy the Notifylink client/server product that we use on our JCS server and put that client native in the Berry email app ...
...Uhh still need threaded messaging and a smarter contact manager that lets you had a number to an existing contact. Hate to say that the windows OS just seems 'smarter' to me. Why is that BB!?