The browsers are - Nokia S60 V5 Default Web Browser, Opera Mobile 10, Opera Mini 5 Beta and Skyfire Mobile Browser.
1) Nokia S60 V5 Default Browser
Nokia default web browser performed well on 5230.It is fast and supports flash (like flash banners, youtube) but it does'nt support full flash.YouTube works but other less popular video sharing sites - don't.Viewing exeperience is good enough.It can open PC version of any site.We visited our site from Nokia 5230 as the screenshots show.You can see everything you see in our site surfing from a pc from Nokia Default Browser.You can use our chatbox, rating widget, page navigation widget when surfing from Nokia Default Browser.It has two viewing modes - One is normal and the other is fullscreen mode.It lacks text cut, copying facility.The webpage quality is very good.It showed every flash banner in our site.The browser cache works well and loading recently visited pages is very quick.It supports pinch zooming and also has a zooming slider for zoom level adjustment.We also opened GSM Arena website from It.GSM Arena site opened without any trouble.Speed - 8.5/10
Page Quality - 10/10Features - 8/10
Overall - 8.5/10
2) Opera Mobile 10
We also used Opera Mobile 10.It's Page Quality is good.It does'nt support flash.Speed is good.But you cant be satisfied with this browser not having flash support.Everything except features are medium.speed is not that good.It took many valuable seconds to open our site.Supports - Text Copying.You can download many things from the net at once.You can open multiple sites at once.But still due to "not-fast" speed and no "flash support" it's not so good.Speed - 7/10
Page Quality - 8/10
Features - 9.5/10
Overall - 8/10
3) Opera Mini 5 Beta
After using Opera Mini 5 Beta we felt that it's a very good web browser for mobile.It opens any site at blazing fast speed (We tested these browsers using EDGE and not 3G).Our site opened very quickly.It does not support flash but displays any webpage very quickly.We were impressed by this browser only for this reason.Now lets talk about its cons.Does'nt support flash.Bad page layout.Very poor page quality.thats it.Its pros are - Blazing fast speed, Many features, Text copying facility, Text reflow.Opera Mini 5 Beta is for users who does'nt have much time to consentrate on page quality and only needs good speed.
Speed - 10/10
Page quality - 5/10
Features - 9/10
Overall - 8/10
4) Skyfire Mobile Browser
Skyfire is the worst browser among all these.Though its page quality is very good but it takes many time opening a site.It took many time to open our site.Neither the interface nor the features are good.Time is the most valuable thing.You'll not open it second time when you browse internet from it.Some website claims that it's the fastest browser till now.It may give good speed when 3G is enabled but here in India when you use this browser for net browsing using EDGE technology it gives the worst speed.Speed - 5/10
Page Quality - 9/10
Features - 7/10
Overall - 6/10
Now its your duty to choose a browser that can fulfill your needs.If you need good speed then you can use Opera Mini 5 Beta.If you need good page quality then you can use Default nokia browser and if you need good features plus good user interface(ease of usability) then you can use Opera Mobile 10.But if you are having a EDGE connection then we recommend you not to use Skyfire.
Review by : Rohit Palit (Owner of this site)
