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Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Jason Grigsby — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:27:12 -0000

Quote: "I would love a browser that looked good and was easy/fast to use. Please?"

My guess is that you'll get it, but just not on your current phone. RIM has to get this sorted or it will watch its market share erode.

Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Aaron B. Hockley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:34:07 -0000

I have a Blackberry 8700 as noted in the post.

Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:30:11 -0000

Which phone model are you using? On my Samsung phone I don't have to press any ALT keys. For me, I just press two keys to get to a shortcut.

Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Aaron B. Hockley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:01:59 -0000

Perhaps some users wouldn't like it. But since Opera Mini's current keyboard shortcuts all involve alt+ keys, just going to one "speed dial" saved bookmark is essentially four key presses alt + * then alt + number.

Make it a user-configurable option, but don't tell me I'm too stupid to use it. I use the single-key shortcuts all the time in the Blackberry browser.

Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:51:24 -0000

Single key shortcuts in Opera Mini has some serious usability drawbacks. Users would accidentally hit single keys without knowing what or why it happened.

In fact, in the Opera desktop browser we used to have single key shortcuts enabled by default. However after getting lots of feedback on the usability drawbacks, we disabled it by default in the beta version of Opera 9.5.

Daniel
Opera Software

Re: Browsing on the Blackberry: It’s About Compromises

Josh Bancroft — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:19:59 -0000

*cough* iPhone *cough* *cough* :-)

Seriously, though, I know what you mean. I've used just about every mobile browser out there, and they all make compromises. It sucks.

Mobile Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch definitely comes the closest to being the ideal mobile browsing experience, IMHO. Sure, there are some things it doesn't do (like, uh, Flash, and, uh, Flash...). But I've gotten so spoiled by it that I'd probably cry if I were forced to use one of the other mobile browsers out there for any length of time... :-)