Tuesday, November 26, 2002

NetFront 3.0 for Pocket PCs on sale ... finally

I can't remember how long ago it was since I tried the 30 day beta trial of the Access NetFront Browserfor Pocket PCs, but the Japanese version is finally on sale. (There is no information on their English web site about the product yet except a short press announcement so all links are to the Japanese site). You can see from the Pocket IE comparison table that the product is claim to fame is it's support for a wide range of standards. They also make a lot out of the multiple window functionality which admittedly is a missing needed feature in Pocket IE. Although the support for all the latest and greatest standards is good and there are a few other nify features I'm really dubious how many people are going to be willing to pay for this extra functionality unless there is some sort of realted killer app. The only sites I miss not having on my Pocket PC are www.rikai.com and www.jisyo.org but when I tried NetFront with these two pages it didn't perform any better than Pocket IE. Luckily there will be a trial download so you can try it yourself. Post to the mailing list and let everyone know how you find it.

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