Deepfish, Mobile Phone Browser by Microsoft

March 30, 2007 on 9:53 am | In Mobile Web Design |

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Software behemoth Microsoft has been developing a high-power web browser for installation in mobile phones running Windows Mobile 5 operating system or later.

Microsoft recently announced public availability of a demo of Deepfish on a limited availability basis (unfortunately, within a day all the available demos were snapped up, but fresh availability has been promised soon).

Deepfish apparently reformats ordinary web pages to fit nicely into the tiny windows mobile phones have. This will likely make unnecessary the horizontal and vertical scrolling which makes mobile browsing a pain.

Deepfish also downloads only the part of the page the user is interested in, thus reducing those irritating download times mobile phones have.

What remains to be seen is if Deepfish will work with the Iphone… Steve Jobs of Apple has said that the Iphone will not allow third-party software to be installed, but Microsoft owns a huge chunk of Apple (which means Microsoft is not exactly third party)…

Mobile phone browsing is set to boom… we’ll keep you posted!