Torch Mobile Launches the Iris Mobile Browser
February 12, 2008 8:39 PM | Software | Comments (0)
| Torch Mobile recently announced the launch of itself and the introduction of the company’s flagship product, the Iris Browser. The company and product are being introduced for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2003, the people behind Torch Mobile have been acknowledged as experts in the KHTML and WebKit development communities. Led by George Staikos, a key contributor to the WebKit project and other popular open source initiatives, Torch Mobile is hitting the ground running with the launch of the Iris Browser. Currently in preview release for Windows Mobile 6 and available for free download at www.torchmobile.com, the Iris Browser brings a desktop-quality Web experience to mobile and embedded systems of virtually any size. The Iris Browser is a flexible, high-performance application, designed to provide users with a full-featured browsing experience on mobile phones, set-top boxes, portable media players and other resource-constrained devices. |  |
Based on the WebKit rendering engine, the Iris Browser provides a powerful and standards-compliant Internet experience that is consistent across different mobile Web devices. Some of the key features of the Iris Browser include:
- Customizable user interface;
- Touch screen and rotating screen support;
- Multi-window and multi-tab browsing;
- Several zoom modes (including block zoom);
- Advanced security and privacy features (SSL, anti-phishing, and pop-up blocking).
Torch Mobile will be co-exhibiting with Trolltech at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain from February 11–14. To see the Iris Browser in action, visit Torch Mobile online, or at stand 2C72, Hall 2.
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