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Five of the best mobile browsers
All the alternatives to IE you need...

By Natasha Lomas

Published: Monday 05 January 2009

Safari on iPhone

The browser preloaded on Apple's iPhone is a version of the Mac-maker's desktop offering Safari, based on open source WebKit tech. Custom tweaked for the iPhone, Safari certainly makes the most of the device's touchscreen - zooming in and out of web pages is effortless, with users able to just pinch to shrink or prise to expand their view. Like a lot of Apple's wares, it's user-friendly but only available on Apple kit.

Features

• Innovative use of multitouch touchscreen for zooming in and out of web pages
• Kinetic scrolling making it easier to pan around large pages
• Virtual keyboard
• Support for landscape browsing

Lacks

• Flash or Java support
• Cut and paste

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