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NetFront Browser v3.4 Technical Preview - available for free download now December 04, 2007 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. The mobile browser wars are heating up! While several companies are making only announcements - Mobile Opera 9 (with full AJAX and page overview mode), Wake3 Webkit (uses the same engine as Safari for iPhone and Internet browser in Google Android) - the Japanese ACCESS company has just released a technical preview version of NetFront browser version 3.4 with several fantastic new features, including "Page Pilot" that enables easy navigation through web pages. ACCESS adds also Camellia - an improved security technology jointly developed by ACCESS with other Japanese corporations. Anyway NetFront is a very solid mobile browser with tabs (see image on the right side!) and it is worth trying for sure. The following are the main features of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Windows Mobile: - HTML 4.01 - XHTML 1.1 - cHTML (Compact HTML) - XHTML Basic (XHTML subset: W3C Recommendation) - WML1.3 - CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 1, 2 (partial) - ECMAScript 3rd Edition (JavaScript 1.5 equivalent) - DOM (Document Object Model) 1, 2 (partial) - Image format: GIF, Animation GIF, PNG, JPEG, MNG-LC, BMP - HTTP/1.1 - SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 2.0/3.0, TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 - Multi-windows (function for displaying up to 5 tabbed windows by switching them) - Cookie - Bookmark, Page Memo - Auto-Cruise - Helper (starts external applications) - Internet search - Smart-Fit Rendering - Browsing mode (Full Browsing, Text Browsing, Simple Browsing, Rapid-Render) - Certificate Manager - Japanese domain support - Smart Frame Operation - RSS、Atom Feed - Password Manager (WebDataManager) - Pop-up Block - Rendering on a virtual-size screen (Virtual Canvas) - PagePilot - Visual Bookmark - camellia support More information from ACCESS follows. * * * * * ACCESS Releases Technical Preview Version of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Windows Mobile First ACCESS product to feature next-generation Camellia cipher ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today made available the latest technical preview version of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Windows Mobile 5.0. In addition to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a U.S. government block cipher encryption algorithm, the latest technical preview version of NetFront Browser for Windows Mobile for the first time also includes Camellia, a high-security, high-performance international standard cipher jointly developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. By supporting both Camellia and AES, the latest technical preview version of NetFront Browser v3.4 for Windows Mobile offers much needed choice and greater security to mobile Internet users. NetFront Browser is designed to provide high performance in resource-constrained environments characterized by limited memory or CPU capability, making it an ideal Internet browser for consumer electronics and mobile terminals, such as PDAs and smartphones. There are currently more than 440 million NetFront product deployments worldwide. To learn more or to download this browser, click HERE.
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