"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> It's the HTC Touch Diamond that's going to launch. All the experts say
> that the Touch Diamond out iPhones the upcoming 3G iPhone. WiFi, Weather,
> FM, 3.2 MP camera, TouchFlo interface, and integrated GPS. Most
> importantly, it's a true PDA with tens of thousands of applications
> available. OTOH, it's probably not going to have as good a browser as the
> iPhone, and the built in flash is only 4GB (but expandable).

Not neccessarily. While WM6.1's native IE Mobile browser seems to be a bit
of a kludge- (they've added zoom in/out like the iPhone', but under that
it's the same old rendering engine) HTC is planning on including Opera
Mobile 9.5 on many of the upcoming HTC phones, which is a desktop-quality
browser that supports Flash. (MS, meanwhile, has promised an IE 6
compatible browser for WM7.)

For those who can't wait for better browsers, Opera Mini 4 already has
excellent zoom/pan rendering (a la iPhone), and works on virtually any
Java-capable phone in existence. For WinMo (and soon for Symbial 60), the
new Skyfire (www.skyfire.com) "browser", now in beta, supports Flash- it'll
even play video from sites like www.hulu.com, or in2tv.aol.com, so I can get
a "Man From UNCLE" fix from just about anywhere! ;-) Skyfire isn't a true
browser in the traditional sense- it's a thin client app that works through
Skyfire's proxy, so the real rendering work is done on Skyfire's servers,
and the output of that is sent to, and displayed on, the device. (Much like
Opera Mini.) I suspect Skyfire will eventually charge for use of the
servers if/when it ever comes out of beta, like Bitstream's "Thunderhawk"
proxy-based browser does.