Tuesday, May 21, 2002
ThunderHawk Finally Lands!
Posted by Brad Adrian in "SOFTWARE" @ 06:47 PM
http://www.bitstream.com./wireless/info.html
A few weeks ago, Jason announced the imminent release of the new ThunderHawk Web browser. Well, it's finally here!
The reason so many of us are excited about this release is the beautiful way that ThunderHawk renders Web pages.
"ThunderHawk gives you the same browsing experience on a Pocket PC as you are used to on the desktop. You can view the full text and images of any Web page without excessive scrolling. Because it does not rely on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) or cHTML (Compact HyperText Markup Language), ThunderHawk does not require Web content providers to repurpose their content — or build one Web site for the desktop and another for the wireless world."
What this means is that with ThunderHawk Web pages look about the same on your Pocket PC as they do on your desktop PC. The only part of this that will be kind of hard to swallow is the price: $49.95 PER YEAR (and the Bitstream site calls that an "introductory price"). I know it's so expensive because you're actually accessing Bitstream's proprietary proxy server, but I've got to really love a service before I'm willing to pony up fifty smackers every year.
Somebody who's used this please tell me if it's worth the money...
A few weeks ago, Jason announced the imminent release of the new ThunderHawk Web browser. Well, it's finally here!
The reason so many of us are excited about this release is the beautiful way that ThunderHawk renders Web pages.
"ThunderHawk gives you the same browsing experience on a Pocket PC as you are used to on the desktop. You can view the full text and images of any Web page without excessive scrolling. Because it does not rely on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) or cHTML (Compact HyperText Markup Language), ThunderHawk does not require Web content providers to repurpose their content — or build one Web site for the desktop and another for the wireless world."
What this means is that with ThunderHawk Web pages look about the same on your Pocket PC as they do on your desktop PC. The only part of this that will be kind of hard to swallow is the price: $49.95 PER YEAR (and the Bitstream site calls that an "introductory price"). I know it's so expensive because you're actually accessing Bitstream's proprietary proxy server, but I've got to really love a service before I'm willing to pony up fifty smackers every year.
Somebody who's used this please tell me if it's worth the money...
