Mobileography

Samsung has released another firmware update for the popular Instinct, and it seems to be a good one.  According to Gizmodo, the update includes some major enhancements to the browser.  The browser seems to to be the achilles heel of most phones (just ask my wife about her BlackJack), so it’s nice to see them working hard to make this one better.

They claim a 10x improvment in rendering speed, which must be a stunning improvement for people that are used to the old one.

In addition, you can now hide the browser controls (to give you more screen real estate), the favorites UI has been improved, and there have been 34 other browser-related tickets closed.  Not bad!

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A new browser is now available for your S60 phone (N95, etc), and it’s promising the world — Skyfire. It sounds similar to Mobile Safari (pan, zoom, etc), but supports Flash and Ajax. All in all, it looks to be a pretty powerful piece of software.

TechCrunch has 200 invites to give away, and IntoMobile has 50 more. Give it a shot and let us know what you think of it.

Also, here is a brief video showing how it works on a Windows Mobile device:

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