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JK on the Run today reported that the new concept version of NetFront 3.5 is out now instead of on Monday.  I downloaded it and will give you my first impressions.

Read on for more photos and comparisons to Opera and IE.

Above is a screenshot of Yahoo Top News.  I found that to scroll around the page using your finger is not recommended.  I believe the surface area of a finger is too large for it to accurately read the input.  The stylus, however, works perfectly.  You can move anywhere on the page quickly. 

If you double click on a section, it highlights it as in the photo below:

Above you can see a thin red square in the upper left corner of the highlighted part of the page.  You can move that square with your stylus anywhere on the page.  When you click once inside the square it then opens up to that part of the page.

In the next photo, I moved the square to the bottom right of the page.

Now I click inside the square:

It’s so easy to use.  I found it to be very intuitive and fun!  I really have grown to dislike using the scroll bars on the bottom and right side to navigate.  The browser is wonderful to use.  It would be even better if you could use your finger instead of the stylus, but it is still far better than what we had before.

Bookmarks are handled in a different way than you would expect.  You touch the “Operation” button on the bottom left, choose Bookmarks, then the Bookmarks page opens:

In this case the Yahoo News Headlines page is selected.  If you choose a page above or below it, then that page becomes selected:

Here I chose the BBC page and clicked on it to open it.

How does this same page look in Opera?

Opera opens it as a mobile browser, hence the list.  I clicked on Top Stories, then choose the Putin story to see how Opera would render the same page as above:

Quite a difference.  Here’s the same with Pocket Internet Explorer:

It, too, handles it as a mobile page.  Here’s the Putin story in IE:

Same as Opera and a striking difference from NetFront.

I found pages loaded quickly for a pocket pc.  In fact, I feel it loaded pages quicker than Opera, which is included in my HTC Advantage.  The pages look beautiful as well.

This program is a joy to use.  I didn’t run into any problems with it.  It worked smoothly and was easy to navigate.  I believe this will become my main browser.

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