During last few days I was taking closer look to web browsers available on Maemo 5. This time I will give you something that we can rely more than just personal opinion, a benchmark! After you already know what it can do and if it is really good from analytical point of view you can choose one as default for your N900.
I used Browser Benchmark from Rightware, which is designed to check weather mobile browser is fast enough, with commercial version for use of browser developers, nevertheless it measures mostly …

The last non-standard browser I’m going to write about is Midori, it showed up on N900 quite a while ago, but I’ve never had enough inspiration to take a closer look.
Midori goes to your application menu as green (‘midori’ means ‘green’ in japanese) icon and welcomes with speed dial page after launching. Page opening seems to be a little slow but looks pretty good and standard-compliant. Kinetic scrolling that most people use on Maemo 5 (because it’s default part of UI) needs some more effort to be perfect, but is …

When talking about web browsers it’s fair to mention Google’s product called Chrome. It has open source version called Chromium that is available also for N900.
I’ve never had more in common with Chrome than watching my collegues using it. Mobile version looks very similar, with tabs and toolbar on top. What’s not so nice it looks almost exactly the same, without any modifications for mobile device or touchscreen to improve usability. Same thing goes context menus and option screens, I find it hard to use them without stylus. Browsing is …

If it comes to web browsers it’s worth mentioning Opera Mobile. Recently it came also to N900 with all of it’s features, with official news at Opera Labs.
At first glance it runs well, no slow-downs or glitches. First page is reserved for speed dial that can be customized with pages of your choice. Interface doesn’t invade in browsing area, address bar hides when scrolling down the page. Almost every part of interface is animated but not in the way overwhelming user with windows flying around and works pretty smooth.
When looking …

When you get brand new N900 you already have MicroB, Maemo-tailored Mozilla-based default web browser, which would be good for most of us. But you still have a choice what to use and I’d like to show you possibilities.
First of all let’s see what happened to Fennec (named after small, desert fox) a.k.a. Firefox Mobile for last few months, since it was release candidate. It has it’s engine in common with MicroB, so I was expecting something really nice and fast. After starting Fennec (named Firefox in the menu, even …

I don’t know if some of you are familiar to this new technology that Google is introducing to us these days. So if you aren’t aware of this, please read first the title at the end of this post about Google Wave.
For all we that are expecting to have access to use this gorgeous tendency, I’m sure that this news makes you desire even more a Nokia N900. A few days ago, I saw a video about Google Wave running on the Nokia N900, but the quality wasn´t too good …

Browsing as a subject again? That’s probably the thought of most of you when reading the new title of this post. However it looks redundant, the main idea is to show a fresh video showing the browsing power of the Nokia N900.
A nice thing about this video is also the TV-Out feature. You would see the browser through a LCD TV. The response and the clarity of the images are wonderful. Besides, this situation brought to my mind the progress on mobility. If you think it through, the Nokia N900 …

I want to share this two videos I have found on the internet about the Internet Browser of the Nokia N900. You would see the incredible capability of the Nokia N900 on opening any Internet page. Where does it come from this capability? Basically because the phone is gifted with the possibility of reading WAP 2.0, xHTML, HTML protocols and also thanks to the Flash Player 9.4 included on it.
You can navigate through the YouTube page just like you were using your desktop computer, and look the videos without any …