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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is a preview of Internet Explorer 6 mobile and now you can't get this right now but in 2009 when new Windows Mobile devices come out they're gonna be shipping with ie6 mobile and ie6 Mobile is basically Microsoft's answer to the question why is Pocket Internet Explorer still so bad so if we take a look at how pocket Internet Explorer works right now here is YouTube and this is what it looks like it's completely unusable even if we zoom out we still can't really do much with the page and so the new version Internet Explorer 6 has Ajax support has support for flash so you get that desktop like experience now right now of course we have a lot of different browsers that we can use with Windows Mobile devices like Opera Mobile Skyfire Opera Mini they give you the desktop like browsing experience but Microsoft ones want to say hey we've got something too and this is what YouTube looks like in Internet Explorer 6 pretty good right so you can you know you can zoom out just like you can with with other browsers and it takes a little bit of time the performance on this particular version is a little slow but I expect that when it ships it'll be faster and if you want to get into a certain part of the screen you have the little selection box like you do in the current pocket Internet Explorer and you just kind of tap on an area on the screen it will zoom in and like I said it supports Flash content so if we go up to this video and we press the play button we should get the video so there it is it's a little bit choppy it's not it's not quite big like I said when this starts to shift on all the devices next year it'll probably much be much better optimized for for the device and be much smoother so let's take a look at some web pages and how they render in ie6 so let's do let's do cnet.com and also in Internet Explorer 6 we get this autosuggest box at the top which saves you a little bit of time not having to type comm and that sort of thing alright and here is seen it and that took quite a bit of time and like I said it looks like your your desktop for some reason some Flash content doesn't load but again I think that's just because this is an early version and not exactly what it's going to be shipping and basically the rest of the program is reminiscent of the original pocket internet explorer so you go into menu you get the you know a simple interface if you go to view you can choose whether you see the mobile or the desktop version so it's convenient to have that right there we can go into full screen and it takes a second and here we are and we get out of full screen so basically it's like Pocket Internet Explorer but with the engine of Internet Explorer 6 so that is it for the preview of ie6 Mobile will reserve full judgment until the final version comes out on devices next year because this version is kind of buggy and slow and I think it's not representative of what we will see in in the next year and for now we can stick to Skyfire and opera mobile which are really really great browsers so that's it for now