Viewing Web Pages on the AT&T TILT Cellphone - Using Both Opera Mobile and Mobile Internet Explorer

Now that Opera Mobile is inatlled on the phone, I went to a few websites, just to see what it looked like on the AT&T Tilt cellphone. None of the sites I went to could be viewed on the phone without both vertical and horizontal scrolling. The viewing of the web pages in Opera Mobile (at least this version) seems to be very similar to Mobile Internet Explorer on the phone.

We were surprised that the Opera Mobile browser doesn’t handle to page scrolling the same way as an iPhone does. It could have shown me a shrunken down version of the page and then let me skrink it down or zoom in, like the iPhone my coworker has. (My coworker is jealous of the fact that the AT&T Tilt Cellphone has a keyboard, and the iPhone does not, so I can type URLs much easier than they can).

Having to scrolling around to view web pages in the browser is not very user-friendly, and it makes reading content very hard.

Another note about viewing web pages using the Opera Mobie browser is that ost websites detect Mobile Internet Explorer, but not all are detecting Opera Mobile, and we see the straight up site geared for a desktop computer as opposed to a cell phone sometimes when using Opera Mobile instead of being forwarded to the mobile version of the site, which we would have bene if we were using Mobile Internet Explorer instead.