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I didn't find this surprising, but maybe I should have. A survey done for SBC Communications, reported in PDA Today, found that people take their web-enabled devices with them on vacation. Not for work, but for recreation. As PDA Today put it:
Today's vacationers overwhelmingly turn to the Internet and Web-enabled consumer electronics to make virtually every part of their summer getaways easier and more enjoyable.
The survey mentions the typical sorts of things -- planning, making reservations, sharing photos and other memorabilia. What it doesn't touch on, though, is using the web as recreation. There are all kinds of games, of course, but it's also fun -- at least for many, including me -- to simply find new things on the web.
Our browser is really pretty good at most of these things, and a mobile phone is obviously the web-enabled device millions of people are vacationing with. I think the area we have the furthest to go, though, is using the web recreationally. As my daughter might say (okay, might have said several years ago), "we have the bestest browser, but do we have the funnest"?
Comments
What's wrong with the current Options>Settings>Screen size>Full Screen ? (or Options>Settings>Page>Screen size>Full Screen on 3rd Edition FP 1)
The only thing left is a very small title/status bar at the top. Are you saying you want that hidden also? It's so few pixels...
Posted by: Franklin Davis | August 17, 2007 04:44 PM@Fernando: It's worth using the shortcut keys. The 8 key jumps you to Page Overview (the full-screen Mini Map view).
I also use 1 (Bookmarks), 2 (Find in page), 3 (Back one page -- no Visual History), and 9 (Enter URL -- and it remembers in case I have to correct a typo).
Of course, we know no one uses Options>Help ...
We're trying to add shortcut key reminders in the menus, but it's not built-in to S60 yet.
Posted by: Franklin Davis | August 17, 2007 04:40 PMHello Yves,
Agreed! One more vote for true full screen browsing. It really cannot be a big deal to do software wise.
Best Regards!
Posted by: Aron | August 13, 2007 07:42 AMAron
Hello Doc,
Nokia hit the Bullseye with WLAN enabled phones. The first "big" mobile phone company to bring WLAN to mainstream on handsets. You do not need 3G to go high speed internet on your mobile. Especially not in the States where WLANs are everywhere. At least I heard. And in Europe? Well I know that from first hand! WLANs ARE everywhere :-) Regards!
Posted by: Aron | August 13, 2007 07:39 AMAron
I like the browser on my E70 also a lot. But one thing I really miss... a true fullscreen mode.
The fullscreen setting does not seem to have any effect here. My brother has a brandnew N95 and it is the same for him.
I wish I could browser fullscreen, in both landscape and portrait mode
Posted by: Yves | August 11, 2007 12:00 PMMobile browsing is pointless without a 3G-enabled device.
Nokia does not have one that is compatible with the USA's networks. Except for the N75, and that's a watered-down, carrier-branded, crippled shadow of the N76.
So I find it both humorous and tortuous for the S60 site to discuss the need for mobile browsing, and praising the S60's browser's ability to do so. Without 3G, the S60's browser is a Porsche with 2/3 of the engine removed.
Posted by: The Doctor | August 10, 2007 04:22 PMHello Pete!
I love your browser, although you know I am a loud critic too, but I do love it on my E70. Cleaning up memory by restarting once a day and cleanin the cache time to time, makes your browser very powerful. About vacation, I am typing this on my E70 at a lake side through WLAN.
I will have a strong message later because your teams silence about browser upgradeability seems to effect your market. More about that later.
Posted by: Aron | August 9, 2007 05:17 PMBest Regards!
Aron
, a true fun of E70 and the S60 browser... ;-)
Hello Pete!
I love your browser, although you know I am a loud critic too, but I do love it on my E70. Cleaning up memory by restarting once a day and cleanin the cache time to time, makes your browser very powerful. About vacation, I am typing this on my E70 at a lake side through WLAN.
I will have a strong message later because your teams silence about browser upgradeability seems to effect your market. More about that later.
Posted by: Aron | August 9, 2007 05:14 PMBest Regards!
Aron
, a true fun of E70 and the S60 browser... ;-)
An option of enabling the Mini-Map feature when you load a page wold be nice, like in Opera Mini 4 or *gasp* the iPhone
Posted by: Fernando | July 31, 2007 11:53 PMI used to use the browser on my 9500 communicator all the time to read blogs and such while on the train. Now I upgraded to the E90, and find that my old browser patterns have been destroyed:
On 9500 I read the blog and ctrl-click interesting links, so they open in new windows. I keep reading the original blog page while the link loads.
On E90 I can't check out the links because then I would loose my position on the original page. The back button never seems to bring me to the same position. Also I would have to wait idly for the page to load (which can take a long time when outside 3g areas).
Please bring this feature back! You already support multiple windows on pages that request it, it is just the manual UI that is missing.
Posted by: Jussi | July 30, 2007 10:06 AMYeah, I know the feeling Horia. How many "out of memory" messages do we have to live with? Have switched to Opera Mini too...
Posted by: Jane Doe | July 29, 2007 05:20 PMSure WE do. My colleague, especially. He owns an E70 and after three pages browsing with "the bestest browser" he received the memory full error. He switched to Opera Mini, of course. Isn't it fun?
Posted by: Horia Stanescu | July 26, 2007 12:11 PM