Mobileography

TeaShark is an impressive mobile browser

TeaShark has just released their mobile browser into beta, and it’s quite impressive. It features a nifty way to handle multiple tabs, the rendering is solid, and load times are quite good. In a lot of ways it feels similar to Opera Mini.

It does a neat thing with its menu. Most of the time, it is compressed to a couple of pixels at the bottom of the screen (see the screenshot on the right). They realize that screen real estate is gold and this feature makes browsing much better.

So far I have just two small complaints:

• I can’t log in to AdSense with it. The login boxes simply aren’t there. The same is true with the S60 browser, though Opera Mini handles it just fine.
• It wants everything to be a fully-rendered page. I’m still on a cell phone, and I often want mobile versions of sites. They certainly work in TeaShark, but they’re harder to find. I don’t think TeaShark identifies itself to servers as being a mobile browser, so web servers don’t know to push mobile content to it.

All in all, this is an amazing piece of software, especially considering it is only in beta. This could very easily become the primary browser on my phone, and I’m already looking forward to the next version coming out!

Update: It might help if I gave links on how to download it. To get it on your PC (and transfer to your phone), you can go here. To download directly onto your phone, visit wap.teashark.com.