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Review: NetFront browser for Pocket PC
A good alternative solution for Pocket Internet Explorer.
NetFront is an alternative web browser for Microsoft´s Pocket PC PDAs. It add multi-window support, JavaScript, PersonalJava and smart rendering technology, that makes reading normal/regular websites very comfortable even on small displays.

As you can see here:

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... there are 3 main viewing modes in the menu "View / Wrap Content": Here is the view of the page in JustFit, which tries to squeeze all columns of the page on the display and is showing them all at once:

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Another mode (our favorite) is "SmartFit", that looks like this:

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... where you can see that in "SmartFit" mode the NetFront browser is simply showing one column under another - i.e. it is reformatting the page and showing in a more readable way!

In the "Wrap Content Disabled" mode the page is showed as it would like look in the browser on the PC:

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... what naturally results in a need to scroll more.

Interestingly NetFront browser offers also "Auto-Cruise" feature:



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... which essentially is an "off-line browsing" - you can start auto-cruise while having your Pocket PC in a craddle - through Internet passthrough of ActiveSync, and later on browse these pages without being connected to the Internet.

Another intresting features is ability to use browser plug-ins:

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Conclusion: NetFront for Pocket PC is a "must have" for people who do a lot of browsing and thanks to many features (we mentioned above only a small subset of them) this browser enables you to see websites in a very similar form as they look like in a desktop PC - i.e. you don´t lose information and have high comfort of browsing. Please note: a special version of NetFront browser is also available for Toshiba e800 - and this version supports the VGA mode of this PDA - 480x640 pixels.

For more information, or to buy this program, or to download trial version, visit website of the software maker of NetFront browser here:
www.access.co.jp