Pocketnow Alum, Derek Snyder, shows a demo of Internet Explorer 6 last spring.
According to Brighthand, a Microsoft spokesperson said, “We recently gave Windows Mobile device makers the final updates to our new browser. It’s now up to our partners to roll out Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on their handsets; we’re expecting some of the first phones with IE6 to be available in Asia and Europe by the end of calendar year 2008, with U.S. offerings to follow.”
This is big news as the current version of Internet Explorer has had little modification in 10 years. Granted, back then it was the best browser around on mobile devices, but times have changed. The new version will support embedded Flash, Silverlight, and streaming video as well as other Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX.
Originally published on Pocketnow on October 30, 2008. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.