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hey guys it's brand a minimun from pocketnow.com you know Windows Mobile more than any other mobile phone operating system offers a variety of browser choices which is great so we have Opera Mobile Opera Mini sky fire among others of course and now we have a new version of the iris browser from torch mobile it's a webkit-based browser that promises to bring very true desktop like PC browsing experience to another mobile phone so let's test it out and see how it looks and I've already loaded it up here with a few tabs and that sort of thing so that we could get started so here we are on a Wikipedia page and the way that I got here I went to navigate show address what you'll notice about the iris web browser it's a lot more crude than Opera Mobile so the address bar isn't as pretty there it's not very graphical the Go button is actually the word go up in the in the upper left corner so it's kind of minimal what I really like about this browser is that when you start navigating the page you get a slider on the right side of the page that shows you the progress along where you are and this really helps if you're on a long webpage and you don't know how far you are from the bottom now something you may be noticing is that iris has a really is really slow a tree rendering the page when you get to a new section I think this is a place where Opera Mobile is much better than iris mobile so let's go to the tabs and by the way these menus that you are seeing this not Pyatt part of iris browser this is part of this ROM that I'm running we showed a video on this this is the same ROM or a similar ROM that we'll be shipping on the touch diamond2 in the touch pro2 so let's go to tabs and see off and so you get this kind of interesting interface for the tabs it's sort of 3d although I don't think it was really made for such a tall screen although the iris web browser does work well on this WVGA screen and so we can find the site that we want we can tap on it again and it will pop up and we get a really cool animation actually in the process unfortunately I haven't been able to get flash of video to play in the iris web browser I'm going to go to page neutab sure you have that works alright so then we can go and type let's see how long it takes msn.com pretty simple webpage running over Wi-Fi right now okay okay so I had to cut out for a minute it actually took a while to load so here we are we start in the zoomed out view which is great and we can double tap to zoom in on a column and although it worked well here by resizing the text to the column or resizing the column based on the text there are some instances like if I go to Wikipedia that tab I had open it it did not do a good job at kind of fitting the text to the screen as opera mobile does so if I double tap on a column it kind of cuts off some of the left text there and if I scroll down the page it kind of it doesn't really lock me into the center as you'll find on the iPhone browser or on Opera Mobile and let's take a look at the settings we have so if we go to a page and we go to options preferences so we can turn on JavaScript and plugins and pop-ups and cookies things like that we can adjust the web cache in other particulars so overall it's a decent browser it's free and I'll put the link on pocketnow.com on how to get it so you really don't have any reason not to download it and try it it has some it features that Opera Mobile does not have having to do with the options and settings that you can choose from the the soft key menus but for me I'm going to stick with Opera Mobile 9.5 because I think it renders pages faster and in most cases it renders pages better and it fits better to the column when you double tap to zoom in but it's good that we have another browser choice for Windows Mobile so that's it for now