By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Mobile Choice has a news article on it’s site, listing what it believes to be the five best browing phones. Like all things, this is open to some subjective interpretation, but then again at least they are putting a list out there for discussion!
I am not going spoil it by listing out the Top 5 (since I think you should pay their site a visit via the link at the bottom of this post), but just give a mention a couple of the devices that made the list…
Those devices are the Nokia N96, and the BlackBerry Bold – now I don’t know about you, but compared to what are essentially “full” browsers on the other devices, I don’t view the browsers on these devices as “close enough” to a desktop equivalent to give a full browsing experience. Fortunately I’ve spent some time with each of these devices, and they do a “sufficient” job I suppose – but once you add a Touchscreen to the browsing experience (which the other devices do), suddently browsing becomes much more intuitive.
So I’ll throw it out there – having checked out the list (via the link below), do you think these are the five best devices for browsing. Me is not so sure…
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
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He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
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