ThunderHawk Browser Beta Available For Microsoft Smart Phones

Bitstream Inc. has released a beta of ThunderHawk Smart Phone Edition.

This provides a more desktop-like view of Internet web sites via a client-server technology. The service relies on a server infrastructure, with a very small client application on the smart phone.

ThunderHawk preserves the actual layout of each web page and allows the user to read columns of text without scrolling left and right.

A split screen mode is also included, which shows a small version of the entire web site in the top pane, with larger text and graphics in the bottom pane of the screen.

ThunderHawk supports CSS and DHTML, as well as SSL and 128-bit encryption. It does not use WAP or cHTML, which means that the entire web is available to wireless customers, instead of selected sites.

For more information, visit the Bitstream web site.

This announcement was made at the 3GSM World Congress 2004, going on now in Cannes.

There is already a Pocket PC version of this application which offers landscape support and compresses fonts and images to fit more of web pages onto the handheld's screen.

ThunderHawk Enterprise Server

Bitstream has also made the ThunderHawk Enterprise Server available, which helps corporations enable mobile access to web browsing across networks as well as corporate intranet web pages.

More information about this corporate solution is available on the Bitstream web site

Related Links

• Brighthand's Coverage of the 3GSM World Congress 2004