Gizmodo Uses PIE For Browser Comparison…Does Anyone Still Use PIE?
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Really Gizmodo? Pocket Internet Explorer and Opera Mobile 8.65 are the two browsers you choose to use in your mobile web browser comparison? I use an iPhone, and yes, Safari is a nice browser…when it isn’t crashing every 5 minutes. The instability of Safari on my iPhone still makes me think that it is in beta mode. So why not compare it against some other beta web browsers?
Windows Mobile can run Opera Mobile 9.5 (which is a HUGE upgrade over 8.65), Skyfire (which is also available for the E71 that was compared), Iris Browser, and even Opera Mini. These are all beta products, but are all free and I find them just as stable as Safari. Now I know that doing comparisons on all of these would ultimately double the amount of work that was done on this article…but that is the price we pay for having a mature mobile platform that provides developers with real options to compete with each other…and against Microsoft.
How about checking out a HTC Touch Pro or Touch HD running Opera 9.5 and Flash Lite 3.1? Opera Mobile 9.5 is technically in beta, but it comes standard with some of the flagship Windows Mobile phones like the Touch Pro, Touch HD, and Diamond. I would love to see that test in the chart for a real display of what Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 is capable of as far as web browsers. Now Opera Mobile 9.5 would work on the Epix if that is all you have available, but the Touch Pro/Fuze or Diamond would probably be a better choice as they are being adopted a lot more than the Epix.
Now, I am not saying that Safari would not still win. I am just saying that blasting Windows Mobile based only on web browsers that come on certain phones is not a very fair comparison.
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