Quick Look, Netfront 3.5 Beta !
Yesterday I posted about the new Netfront Beta, and mentioned that it wouldn’t be available till the 11/2/08, Monday. Well it seems my intel was wrong, as I checked the link again today, and viola, hence the screenshot of the Netfront 3.5 favourites screen. I’ve only played with it for five minutes, but I had to let you know that you can
Now, it offers some really different rendering alternatives, and not a scrollbar in sight. At its default normal, assuming there’s no unavoidable mobile plugin on the page you want to view, it loads the full page, and you can pan through the page, left, right, up, down, with stylus or finger. Then the other end of the scale here is smart fit rendering, which will fit the page you are viewing to your screen resolution. There’s also a middle ground option as well, just fit as it’s called. That favourites screen is my fave at the moment, Netfront automatically detected my favourites and had them available without any effort from me at all. It’s like an animated carousel, and the addresses are animated as well, very slick little feature. Two initial observations, I checked RAM usage, and from my usual average of about 20 Mb available, I was down to a bit over 3 Mb. General loading of pages was average speed wise! As I said, I haven’t played with it enough to really give you a good overview, but my first impression is optimistic! Check it out for yourselves and tell me what you think!
Related posts:
Search JAMM »
Our Sponsors
Most Popular »
- JAMM Giveaway: Get Your Favorite SplashData App For Free!
- Windows Phone 7 Series NOT Backwards Compatible With Windows Mobile
- QOTD: How Large is Too Large for a Program & Is There a Light in Size Alternative to GoodSync?
- QOTD: What Is The Best Phone on the Market?
- Windows Mobile to Become Windows Phone Classic, To Coexist with Windows Phone 7 Series
- WiFiFoFum – Banned from the App Store, Now Out in Cydia
- Google Reader
- How Windows 7 Helped Me Enjoy a Car Ride Home
- QOTD: Which is More Important: Operating System, Applications or Operator?
- Micro SD Cards Will Be Making Contactless Payments In 2010
- Sprint’s Fumble of the NFL Mobile App Leads to A Pick Six From Verizon
-
No Copy-And-Paste for Windows Phone 7 Series
-
QOTD: Do You Ever Unplug?
-
GoodReader for iPhone Now Includes DropBox
-
Deal of the Day: Alarm Master for Windows Mobile
-
Is The Backflip An Android Device Or An AT&T Device?
-
FizzPow Games Announces "PandaMania: Legend of the Fu Manchu" For iPhone/iPod Touch
-
Hurry Up: 15% Off Proporta Products On St. Patrick’s Day
-
Hurry Up: Last Day To Enter The SplashData Giveaway!!
-
Nexus One in the House! – Initial Impressions
-
Review: Cable Stable DLX by Skooba Design
-
Wondering What Windows Phone 7 Will Look Like?
- SplashID for webOS......
- I would take splash travel...
- i do a lot of cash transactions so SplashMoney is useful....
- SplashShopper be nice...
- GREAT editorial.
I think they ruined the device. There's no reason why they ...
- I use Outlook 2003 and Exchange for my work account, and all other accounts are ...
- dgoldring : "Just a quick word of clarification. The contest is for single app...
- Thanks for a great review Doug! If anyone is interested in the process of creati...
- 1793 (1)
- Accessories (456)
- Android (112)
- Blackberry (148)
- Books, Music, and Media (1)
- Carrier News (129)
- Contests (159)
- Deals and Giveaways (514)
- Featured (242)
- Free For All (73)
- General (857)
- GPS devices (11)
- iPhone/iPod Touch (464)
- JAMM (159)
- JAMM Store (43)
- Laptops and Netbooks (94)
- Laptops, MIDS, and other Portable Devices (4)
- MIDS and UMPC (13)
- Other Devices (187)
- Palm/WebOS (272)
- Phones and Mobile Devices (20)
- Reviews (662)
- Symbian/Nokia (115)
- Tips and Tricks (87)
- Views (504)
- Windows Phone (1394)

1 Comment
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.Ragart
Feb 9, 2008
Ooo baby, baby it’s a wild world.
Ok. Now to the post. Hrmm — it’s pretty fast! It loads pages like Engadget in around 9-10 seconds and they become surfable after that. That’s pretty impressive! I do definitely want more than this zoom mode though — I do like Opera’s take on dynamic zooming.
But I can’t believe how much better this browser is than the 3.4 tech preview. I kept trying that out before but it was nowhere near this quality. The only big question at this point is RAM and playing nicely and not nuking my other programs when it gets hungry.
Leave a Reply