Thanks for all the comments and feedback - here and through our site. We've poured a lot of work into the Iris Browser, but we know it's not perfect yet. We tried to be clear that this first release is a very early preview - but we wanted to get it out there to demonstrate that it's definitely not vaporware.
A quick observation about some of the feedback: we're getting a few questions and comments about the performance of the Iris Browser on low-spec phones. We're confident that we can optimize it to work really well on a range of devices, but the experience is always going to be better on the higher end smartphones, and this release is only designed for Windows Mobile 6. We've tested on the Motorola Q and the HTC TyTn II. We know it doesn't work well on the first versions of the Samsung Blackjack. We're still sprinting as hard as we can to improve and update the preview release every day, and hope that those of you who didn't like the first cut will bear with us and give the Iris Browser a second look in the next couple of weeks.
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Thanks for all the comments and feedback - here and through our site. We've poured a lot of work into the Iris Browser, but we know it's not perfect yet. We tried to be clear that this first release is a very early preview - but we wanted to get it out there to demonstrate that it's definitely not vaporware.
A quick observation about some of the feedback: we're getting a few questions and comments about the performance of the Iris Browser on low-spec phones. We're confident that we can optimize it to work really well on a range of devices, but the experience is always going to be better on the higher end smartphones, and this release is only designed for Windows Mobile 6. We've tested on the Motorola Q and the HTC TyTn II. We know it doesn't work well on the first versions of the Samsung Blackjack. We're still sprinting as hard as we can to improve and update the preview release every day, and hope that those of you who didn't like the first cut will bear with us and give the Iris Browser a second look in the next couple of weeks.
-- George Staikos, President, Torch Mobile