I’ve pointed other people at the Minimo Project, a minimized version of Firefox for Windows Mobile. I don’t have a Windows Mobile device, so I have not been able to test yet. However, since I am looking at a new phone due to the endless resets of my Treo 650, I have been looking at browsers other than Pocket IE. Reviews I have received are pretty good.
I have tried Opera Mini 2, and it is nice. I am able to view sites that don’t just come up in Palm’s Blazer browser, and rendering is pretty fast. Since it is Java-based, YMMV.
The best browser I have seen is the Symbian browser for S60 devices – not Windows Mobile. It’s based on WebCore (from Apple’s Safari browser), and has some of the coolest features I have seen. One of them is the ability to thumbnail the entire web page, allowing people using phones to quickly browse to any part of the page.
If there was a Symbian phone that had a Treo-like form factor, or if they just made the E61 a bit thinner, I would buy it in a snap. When Cingular gets around to releasing the N75 flip-phone, I will be picking it up for the wife. Just a shame they don’t have a fully featured phone….