PhoneScoop: Palm Pre Browser

[0]In this video we are going to take a quick look at the browser on the Palm Pre. We can jump to the browser through the main menu. We will select that and here in the basement I was having trouble so I did load WiFi, although in general though the Pre does run on Sprint's EVDO Rev A network which I found to be very speedy for browsing. Lets see how fast it pulls up Google. And there we go. Google page, not bad at all. There is a lot to do here. We can edit things. This is, if you want to cut, copy and paste text from textfield to textfield. We can start a new card which is basically like having a different tab open in another browser. We can add a bookmark share the page if we want to via email. And we can go to our bookmarks. Lets do that. Go to our bookmarks. And of course lets launch PhoneScoop. And of course the Pre [1]shows full HTML emails although it doesnt include Flash capability. You could see how quickly it loaded the HTML site on PhoneScoop. Double tab to zoom in to look at a particular area of the site and of course you can also pinch to zoom in and pinch to zoom out. You can see we can get the text to be pretty big there and zoom all the way out there. And of course, we can also view our browsing history on different sites we have been Lets jump to CNN, which is also a pretty busy page and it defaults to the full version of CNN and not the mobile version and you know of course thats not all that easy to read like this, you can see how tiny the text is and thats what they make double tapping for. Double tap and it will zoom in to show you specific areas of the page. So you know, its a pretty capable browser. Its not perfect. No [2]mobile browser is. But for the most part, it does a pretty good job and you can control some things here such as popups and cookies, and of course you can clear the history, cookies and cache if you value your privacy. So thats a quick look at the browser on the Palm Pre.


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