Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

Just out of curiosity (and it is curiosity), what do you feel makes it greater?

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

android browser still feels like a phone whereas microb is pretty damn close to a desktop experience. on the whole i found the browsing experience to be kind of clunky on android. microb admittedly sucks on 2g though.. opera is more suited for that.

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

The good part about MicroB compared to say the SGS2 browser is that with the N900 you have a hardware keyboard with a backbutton and no need for a splitscreen keyboard etc. Thats what makes it so nice to browse on IMO.

Other than that the SGS2 browser is... outstandingly good. Only problem is that I havent found a way to switch useragent on it without having to repeat the process every time I launch the browser.

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

RIM's Playbook browser is currently the best mobile browser I've seen. Based on WebKit, accelerated, JIT, SVG support, Flash + the OS has the same kind of all apps running at once multitasking like N900 has.

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

Eh, i still think the sgs2 browser is the best, but thats probably because of 4g and the phones hardware and not the browser as an isolated application.

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

I had an archos 70 for a while (then I killed it by dropping it).

The best Android browser I tried was Dolphin Browser HD. It has tabs, flash support, side-bar bookmarks (like FF/Fennec) and even has gestures. Pretty great browser if you ask me.

But I still love microB...

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

True.

I use both. The android browser defaults to mobile sites more often and lacks the detailed gesture controls and pc KB commands such as simple copy and paste (you have to use a menu and even then it is clunky)

Basically, the interaction with the Android browser is far worse than Microb.

Now, the AB loads faster and plays flash very well of course. I enjoy using it as long as I don't have to copy text, play a game or use detailed desktop like interactions. If so, it is Microb all the way.

My bank website shows up the desktop on Microb but comes up mobile on AB.

The AB is the second best desktop browser but the best smartphone browser, if that makes sense....

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

Have you tried it with the Firefox extensions, shown on another thread on TMO recently as they seem to speed up MicroB and make it an even better browser in my view.

It seems as fast as my netbook to load website now.

Re: N900 style desktop browsing experience on any other phone?
 

Well, the best is little subjective :) Awkward navigation, no multitouch (except gestures) until 3.0 (OS issue actually), no SVG at all, broken CSS transitions until 2.3 and non accelerated including in 3.0... there is more, but as a web developer I am subjective too :)

Dolphin reuses the same WebKit engine so it is better only in UI. :)