| Media capability on mobile phones
is largely controlled by the mobile browser.
Mobile browsers are looking to take control of mobile hardware
and middleware to support native video functionality.
The main mobile browsers are:
- Pocket Internet Explorer - The default
browser on Windows CE (used on the Pocket PC).
- Opera
- One of the most popular mobile browsers, and is the default
browser on a large number of mobile devices.
- Opera
Mini - runs on very low resources and on phones
that will not support standard web browsers
- ThunderHawk
- the only mobile browser to display full HTML
pages.
- NetFront - another popular mobile browsers.
- Minimo
- [Mini Mozilla] Not proving popular due hungry size &
resources
- Series 60 - on Nokia 60 Series phones
- Konqueror Embedded
- OpenWave - A browser for mobile phones.
The most popular mobile browsers is Opera. It copes best
with difficult pages and has other impressive capabilities,
such as:
- ability to use XMLHttpRequest (AJAX) applications
- best support for standards such as DOM, CSS, and SVG.
- low resource usage
- small footprint
Next: Java Mobile
Media API
Mobile Index | Browsers
| Java | Minimo
| Opera | Series-60
| Thunderhawk
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