{"id":325997,"date":"2010-02-16T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-16:article\/419-blackberry-close-to-overhauling-web-browser"},"modified":"2010-02-16T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T13:55:20","slug":"blackberry-close-to-overhauling-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325997","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Close To Overhauling Web Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Research In Motion is still playing catch-up when it comes to offering a good internet experience on the Blackberry, and today at Mobile World Congress RIM (NSDQ: RIMM<\/a>) Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said a revamped browser is coming this year.<\/p>\n

The new browser will be based on the open-source WebKit technology that’s also leveraged by Apple’s Safari and Google’s Android. In an interview with Bloomberg<\/a>, Lazaridis would not provide specifics, but said: “You\u2019ll see how fast it downloads, how quickly it renders and how smooth it scrolls and zooms in.”\n<\/p>\n

Many of RIM’s competitors have solved browsing an entire internet page on a small screen by using touchscreens that can zoom in and out with a pinch of two fingers. But the Storm is Blackberry’s only
\ntouchscreen device, which creates a more difficult challenge. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company bought browser-design firm Torch Mobile last year and has increased the number of Web patents it has filed fivefold in the past three years, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

No word on whether RIM will partner with any others to create a better browsing experience. Opera, Skyfire and many others have created browsers for various platforms.\n<\/p>\n

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Research In Motion is still playing catch-up when it comes to offering a good internet experience on the Blackberry, and today at Mobile World Congress RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said a revamped browser is coming this year. The new browser will be based on the open-source WebKit technology that’s also leveraged by Apple’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}