Torch Mobile releases Iris Browser v1.1.7

[jdryang]

Bad experience for me. This browser is a memory hog on my mogul. I soft reset with 22-23 free mb and when I start this thing and navigate to yahoo home screen, BAM, low memory and shuts down. Same thing as Opera Mobile. Otherwise nice browser. Probably better on diamond/tp. Will stick with Opera mini and Skyfire for now. Just my $0.02.

[Drybonz]

Originally Posted by wkv2101

If you call blurry, unreadable text support then I guess skyfire supports VGA. Personally, I think its horrible.

I'm not a big fan of Skyfire either, but I will have to check Iris out. It's gonna be tough to dethrone Opera on my device.

[pdx77]

Originally Posted by Drybonz

I'm not a big fan of Skyfire either, but I will have to check Iris out. It's gonna be tough to dethrone Opera on my device.

Their offical support with some of their mods on the forums over there did it for me on Skyfire. I've never seen a support forum like that where a user gets yelled at by a mod for suggesting a feature or for reporting something that doesn't work.. ok this is off topic now.

/rant off

[ugabuga]

Been playing around with this for last hour......my thoughts so far:

1. Seem to do a good job at rendering pages, even some Opera Mobile and Skyfire had issues with
2. Downloads items better than Opera Mobile, for example Rapidshare files
3. Usability is pretty terrible compared to Opera Mobile though. No way to set zoom settings so I am required on every page to go to the menu and click zoom to 100. This gets very annoying. Some sites like espn when zoomed the text required me to scroll left and right.
4. Flash works about the same as Opera Mobile, hardly at all. Most sites say it needs to be updated. Some that work in Opera Mobile do not, for example speedtest
5. Can't click on buttons or link, requires holding down for a sec or 2 for anything to work
6. Able to import all my bookmarks from PIE and Opera Mobile, this was definitely nice!

[JBundy]

Originally Posted by wkv2101

If you call blurry, unreadable text support then I guess skyfire supports VGA. Personally, I think its horrible.

I agree on the blurry text issues. It's blurry on QVGA as well. Remember, though, it's server-based using Mozilla's Gecko, so it doesn't render on your phone like PIE, Iris, Opera Mobile, NetFront, etc. It renders on SkyFire's servers in CA and then sends images to your phone. Opera Mini does a much better job of text rendering in that aspect, but on the best zoom levels, text is clear to me ... at least on QVGA.

[JBundy]

Originally Posted by jdryang

Bad experience for me. This browser is a memory hog on my mogul. I soft reset with 22-23 free mb and when I start this thing and navigate to yahoo home screen, BAM, low memory and shuts down. Same thing as Opera Mobile. Otherwise nice browser. Probably better on diamond/tp. Will stick with Opera mini and Skyfire for now. Just my $0.02.

Refer to hardware recommendations prior to using an application (ignore the lien where they say "it is known to ..." as Torch obviously only tested this on the hardware specs in bold red).

From TorchMobile.com

Iris Browser™ for Windows Mobile® 5 & 6 is now available for free download! Simply register with us by providing your name and contact information and download the CAB to your PC or directly to your phone.
The browser has been tested on a variety of Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, including Classic and Professional (Smartphone, PocketPC) editions, and we recommend 400MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM at this time, though it is known to work well on 200MHz processors and 64MB devices.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Torch did not test to see how the browser would perform on the HTC Mogul from Sprint, which only has half the recommended RAM (64MB).

[Torx]

goto options and press check for update, works wonderfully.
gonna see how this version stacks up, should be better, as if it isnt already better.

wow, i just noticed the data usage details page
and the tabs switching page, even though the 3d rendering of tab pages is a little rough, its pretty tight that its implemented into a browser.

skyfire will definately clean up their vga issue, but until then its on the backburner for me

[friguy3]

On a VZ6800/mogul, could open a webpage and then the second page it shuts down bc of memory issues. Looked ok, the tap and zoom was a little buggy for me. Oh well, guess Ill try it out if i get a diff phone, otherwise...skyfire is the only one that fully runs without problems.

[wmdunn]

Originally Posted by Torx

goto options and press check for update, works wonderfully.
gonna see how this version stacks up, should be better, as if it isnt already better.

wow, i just noticed the data usage details page
and the tabs switching page, even though the 3d rendering of tab pages is a little rough, its pretty tight that its implemented into a browser.

skyfire will definately clean up their vga issue, but until then its on the backburner for me

+1 ... Agree totally, I don't ever use Skyfire anymore ... waiting for them to get their act together. By the way, the update is indeed under options, just look into preferences ... updated flawlessly. Thanks.

[glassr]

Where do I find NPFL3ppc.dll