PicoWeb
A simple Web browser from the publisher of PicoMail.
PicoWeb reformats pages as a single column. It removes background colors, borders and other styling. Text is all the same size. Images are displayed and image quality is actually pretty good.
Type: Ad-supported
Author: PicoWireless
Data Connection Required: Yes
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler): Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776): Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All with Java ( i9, i856, i776, i465, i290, etc.)
The app “PicoWeb” (72 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:”PicoWeb”.
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
This is a fake browser
Why do you say it’s fake? It came from the Pico site.
Hi denis sir. My phone is samsung metro 312. My phone does not support any facebook app. What i have to do?
I only have Opera Mini 4.3 and no pc , so I am not going to manually enter all the url’s .
Buy a Boost Mobile i465 (they’re cheap) and test your browser on it .
This browser is very slow , messes up on reformatting the websites , even when it is a mobile site .
Links are often lost or mapped incorrectly and it takes forever to scroll .
I highly recommend Opera Mini 4.3 or Bolt Lite over this browser .
> This browser is very slow
In my (albeit limited) tests, PicoWeb is pretty fast for most pages (it sacrifices alot of features for plain out speed). Is there a URL that you’ve noticed this with? The issue may be related to Boost or some buffering on the handset itself, though if you’ve tested other browsers on the same network, same handset and they’re faster than PicoWeb, that’d be of interest to me.
> messes up on reformatting the websites
PicoWeb tries to pack as much displayable info on a page as it can, which, on some pages, torments the layout the web author intended. I can dial back some of this whitespace elimination code if it’s proving to be detrimental to the user experience — please, as before, send me some sample URLs that you think reformat poorly and we’ll see about prettying them up.
> Links are often lost or mapped incorrectly
Two part answer: If a link if generated ala JavaScript, this will not be visible with PicoWeb as it doesn’t support JavaScript (yet!). For non- JavaScript- generated links, I did review the canonicalization code for a URL and, indeed, there was a problem that has now been fixed and pushed out, so I’d invite you to check those sites again (no need to reinstall PicoWeb) that did show missing or URLs that could not be clicked and resulted in content and see if they’re showing now. Thanks for mentioning this, was a good report, please keep reporting things (with as much detail, examples as you can stomach) you dislike about PicoWeb and I’ll do my best to improve it.
This is a waste of memory