Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brian Mittman from pocket now calm Windows Phone 7 is a very much locked down operating system you can't change the keyboard it can't add a task manager there's a lot you can't do and one of the things we thought you couldn't do is add a third-party browser well it turns out that you can because one has just entered the marketplace it's krod browser plus and in this video we're going to tell you about it let's get to it so before talking about browser plus just want to review really quick Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 and how it looks so it's a very basic browser but it performs very well the pinch-to-zoom is SuperDuper fast tab management is easy with a button down here although as you're going to see browser plus improves upon tab management and some other things down here we also have the ability to favorite to to look at the bookmarks and so on and so forth so a very simple browser let's look at browser plus it's a $0.99 application which brings a lot of new features that I think a lot of people are going to appreciate right off the bat you can see that it has tabs that are visual instead of in the previous internet explorer of the internet explorer that comes on the device you have to go into a submenu to access your tabs but here you can actually flip between them through this visual interface and by the way it remembers what tabs you had open just like Internet Explorer so I've had these tabs opened a few minutes ago I jumped back in here they are again so here we are on a web page will go to Engadget it feels the same as the internet explorer browser so it's probably built on the same sort of technology there it just adds some interface changes that makes browsing a little bit more easy so again we have the tabs let's add another and see what it's like to add lots of different tabs so we can looks like it exited it is a little bit buggy here and so it looks like it actually yeah there it goes it's going to resume so I'm going to press the plus button open up a new tab and we're gonna go into Gizmodo here okay here it's coming by the way this does not support landscape functionality at that time which is a huge bond room the landscape is very good to use when you're looking at web pages so here we are in Gizmodo let's open up another tab let's see how many tabs we can get here so we'll go to scene it looks like we're running out of space here the X button is missing add one more and actually you can swipe to the side so it looks like you can keep adding tabs which is great if you want to close the tab you tap on it hit the X button over here you have to have small fingers in order to do this we can also use a search right from the upper right corner which is something that the browser in Internet Explorer does not let you do so we can search for you know you know HTC search and it pulls up Google search results which is quite nice and then we can flip between the tabs like so now there's a few things we can do down here if we open up the settings there's a reader view and in order to show you that I've got to get into a page where the ads and the pictures can be stripped out so that you can get sort of the reader view similar to what you get in Safari so here we go it's loaded let's go to reader view see if it works sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't looks like in this case it's not going to work but it does actually work quite well on pocket now so let's jump into that real quick okay so here we are we're gonna jump into reader view and this should work there we go reader view so it just pulls out all of the ads and all the graphical stuff to just give you some text and some images now we can go to what looks to be a print view see if it'll do anything it won't or we can revert back to the previous view so some of these buttons actually don't work it's a early browser that it doesn't work as well as the standard browser built into Windows Phone 7 down here we have some other options we can search on the page we can open up a page in IE if something's not working we can mail a link we can go into private mode so it will not keep a history of what you're doing if you're looking at certain things that you don't want other people to see but overall it's a pretty cool browser really enhancing on the functionality already built into Windows Phone 7 Internet Explorer again it's $0.99 in the marketplace and it's a great browser if you want to have a better tabbed browsing experience for more news and reviews for Windows Phone 7 and other smartphone platforms check out pocketnow.com thanks for watching and that's it for now