WOW

Me wants it bad.

i need this in my life

Looks pretty quick. Hopefully this will roll out soon...

over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIbHsrCiez8

blackberry heaven. lol. that'll be too good to be true :(

YAAAAA!!!! Can't wait, and it looks like the demo was on a 9700!!!!!

This is good news!! Can't wait for the browser to roll out. It's the ONE thing that us BB users get killed on by others.

With Webkit and an updated os rim will have the best hardware with a mean outlook on software.... Lets GO!!

looks sweet. depending on the reviews when it gets out this might be the reason for me to get a berry

RIM, please follow this up with an ETA!!!!

I can't wait for the browser to get released. IMO, that's the most important feature of BBs that needs improvement.

You know, I was interested in the 9700 launch but not excited because I'm a on CDMA. As I'm sure GSM people arent excited about the 9650. This is one thing about 90% of blackberry users will get excited about, more so than OS5, which doesn't feel that different than what was before. It's huge.
And, it runs pretty well on something that at least looks like a 9700, which hopefully means it will run on most of the OS5 devices.

iNEED this.

Oooh My sweet loving BB!!! wow..
drooling all over myself.BB Webkit Browser + OS Update?!
I need not breakfast anymore. My soul just got well fed. lol
Is that Flash running?! or i'm day dreaming?

I read all the angry comments about the BESX, and now look, lo and behold, here's the webkit browser everyone cried about!

Just blowing off some steam, this browser looks sick, even tho browsing isn't a huge thing for me, I do browse quite a bit on my BB, this will be awesome.

I wanted this for the longest time! I need this now, please please please, leak it send it twit it fax it read updated!~

I Can't wait at all. i need this now. can't wait to see it on the 9550

Goodbye bolt..goodbye opera..and oh hello BB browser! ^^

ALLLLLLLL thats left is some UI updates
I feel like ive betrayed RIM by drooling over Windows Mobile 7 series .
Some UI updates PLEASE RIM lolol

Looks amazing! I hope this would work on OS 5.0 in general and not only on their newest handsets. Would love to get this on my BlackBerry Bold 9000.

Nice I can't wait now, I have the suspense of the 5.0 now. Damn you RIM keep up the good work.

RIM failed us on OS 5.0 and have struggled for years now to make a decent browser. How long will this take to be released? Will they release it only on "new" BB's, forcing us into another round of buying with what we should have had in the first place? I'm skeptical.

RIM better get their act together fast. This is a nice 'demo' but let's get this soon. After the Windows phone 7 series demo yesterday, I'm thinking RIM needs a huge jump in the OS to not fall too far behind. Competition is heating up and RIM needs to show us they are still in the game. If Microsoft is changing their business phone view, maybe RIM needs to as well. They can keep one or two phones for business environments for secure reasons, and open up the platform for consumer phones.

Better than what they currently have, but still an inferior browser.

Looks quite a bit slower than other options out there.

Another RIM failure.

Current BlackBerry Browser scores a 91 on the Acid3 test
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2336232/blackberry_browser_impr...

Score of 100 would actually be higher than Firefox.

The big issue though, is the speed of the pan/zoom and javascript (any word on what javascript engine this is using?)

(Or how many years it will take Verizon to roll out whatever OS this is a part of?)

have rim taken it down? probably..

Keep in mind that this is a test on WIFI only, just tested the same pages on wifi on my regular 9700 browser and was not that much slower than the new browser. Question is how fast is it on 3g and EDGE?

I got a 100/100 on Bolt 1.7 and 79/100 on Opera Mini 5 Beta 2.

Looks so sick. We need this, NOW.

My browser failed the test...

THIS IS THE MISSING COMPONENT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR TO TAKE ON THE COMPETITION.

HEY KEVIN, ANY NEWS ON THE BB SHIELD CLOUD ACTIVE SYNC ?

No your right verizon hasn't released a 5.0 for the 9630 but MTS has if u want it right now http://crackberry.com/official-blackberry-tour-9630-os-5-0-0-419-release...

Wonder if this will be available for devices with < os5.0

This is it!!! Exactly what i've been waiting for!!! Let's drop this browser SOOOONN!!!

wow looks like this is working already, i wonder how long theyve been sat on this one??

I just an accident. rofl. going to clean up.

Oh man my S2 needs this............

LIKE NOW please RIM

that looks amazing! its about time! look forward to the launch!

It's about time RIM.
Let's go!

Would have like to see some of the interface. Good start though.

RIM>>>>>Let me see you Play some flash video on it

Seriously- no offense, but what exactly are you all rejoicing over?
A one minute, recorded video, of a flashless browser using wifi, that picks up partly through a page render; that may be released Some time? Wow - no wonder things are so f-ed up. Hey - ket me ask you all how your liking the new Need for Speed game demonstrated by RIM a couple months ago?

That looks truly impressive. In the short time I had the Droid all I really loved about it was the browser, and I always thought if my Storm had a browser similar to it, it would be the perfect phone. I hope this sees the light of day soon.

Roll this out!

Baby.........WHEN!!!!!!?????????

As much criticism as you're catching, I know what you mean.

People, 1Magine isn't saying the browser isn't a huge step up from where we are with our current browser- simply that we should be a little more critical about it because so far, it's really really fast.... and then what? It's not smooth like an iphone browser, not choppy/smooth like a droid. Nor is there any of the highly touted flash running that RIM stated would be supported in the browser and UI.

Yes, we are all aware that the product is not completed yet. We know it's in the early stages, but it's almost crunch time, and there are no signs of this being anything that would trump a competitor's browser.

Can't wait until this gets released!

I can't wait till this is released by RIM, but until then, maybe someone will leak it out to us! Please?!? :) Looks awesome!! Heck, even a buggy beta verison is better than what we have now.

Once they role this out we can stop saying "blackberry is a great platform, unless you access a lot of web pages, in that case you better get a phone with a native browser you can rely on".

3rd party apps are great for customization, but 100% of users need their browser to JUST WORK.
Management 1001: don't outsource your core competency.

Once this comes out the blackberry platform will be complete. Its the only lacking part that I thought they ever had. Way to go RIM!! Now let's deploy it!!

Canned Video demos truly suck... It gives the end user no actual feeling for the product; in real life conditions.

It says alot that they were unable to give a "live" demo i.e. it is no where near "beta" ready. We're still probably looking at 6-9mths before we see anything meaningful.

Some really good work in progress.. will be awesome when it's out...

is better than going back.

I just don't understand the pleasure over a 1 minute video demo. Not a live demonstration. Not over 3G. And likely over a stripped out BB as well. Listen - you want to be excited and happy- - be my guest. I don't want to be the dcowner here. Though I imagine that you're going to be the first one's screaming when it shows up late and half cooked.

I thought that by now enough people have gotten tired of RIM blowing smoke up your bum and calling it a rainbow. Guess Barnum was right.

BTW - trust RIM? No. I don't trust RIM to get it right. Can they? Sure Look at AMD/ATI - they came all the way back from the dead. But they also cleaned house. RIM has shown no such inclination. E-mail is truncated, alerts and ring tones wont play through the headset, embedded images will not auto download in e-mails, and the touch UI is far from complete (still can't flick through playing songs). There are a dozen areas where RIM has yet to address. And a minute video demo doesn't reassure me that all is going to be ok in the BB universe.

in every head to head with a storm 2 or storm they place a droid or iphone or htc hero or palm phone we get embarrassed in the browsing category EVERYTIME !! but now we may FINALLY actually win a head to head event and someone may actually give us some good reviews!! WOO HOO !!

The WebKit browser will be bundled with BB OS 7 so look forward to a few years of "wait for it". Then watch BB users move to Android or the iPhone instead of waiting for this.

About time RIM did this...now RELEASE THIS ASAP.

It's our time to shine. I'm patiently waiting.

I was excited about the big "TUESDAY announcement", then Blaze came and told someone that it had nothing to do with the web kit browser hence shooting me down. But man, I'm so excited for this!

RIGHT? YOU DON'T ACTUALLY GET TO SEE IT LOAD A PAGE FROM START TO END. They might as well have put a red text box on the bottom wich reads "Phone images and time elapsed enhanced for effect."

But as another has posted, its "...only to show what can be done..." Maybe it will be faster; maybe not. Maybe it will have flash, maybe not. Maybe it will be ready for July 2010, maybe not.

Darn - sorry - I did it again. Please excuse my sober reasoning and observation. YEAH RIM. This looks awesomesome. So amazing. Congrats everyone.

Hope this will be on the storm 2 also.

1) Will this be rolled out to existing BBs? If so, which ones?

2) What is the ETA on rollout?

3) From the little birdies chirping regarding 10.1 working with BB, will this support Flash?

Earn that paycheck, man! :P

I may need to correct myself. (Wouldn't be the first time). Looks like video shows Flash 10. Live4soccer.com page has flash ads running on top of the live4soccer Champions league banner. In video above it is a car ad. If you load it up on regular browser you can see that spot is encoded for flash 10. Your current BB Browser will not display any ad up there or to the far right. But the browser in the video does. Hmm. Need to go re-think some things.

release this now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and a youtube app.
all i want.

who wants to leak out this browser? :) People are out there testing it, bound to happen

"Getting data down to the BlackBerry fast has never been an issue for the BlackBerry web browser..."

I had to laugh when I read this part of the article. Really? You want to try out my 9700 on AT & T's U.S. network and tell me that there's no way the device could be receiving data any faster? Haha.

Looks great, I hope it was worth the wait.

Over the last few months, I have gotten a hold of a plethora of phones to use, including the palm pre plus, eris, droid, and winmo hd2. Of all the phones I have used, the pre by far has the best web browser. Full html, incredibly fast, awesome pinch zoom, etc. But for some reason I always keep falling back to my blackberry. There is something about every one of them. Whether it be my storm2 or (at the moment) curve2, there is always that feeling of comfort with the blackberry experience. I use the web browser more than any other application on a phone, for multiple reasons. It is painful, torturous, for me to use any browser on a blackberry. But I do it- I don't know why, but I do. With the addition of what looks like the fastest browser I might ever use, I will cement myself and crush my curiosity into blackberries for a long time coming.

If you believe the ads on top (car ad in video over the live4soccer banner) is java - - please show it to me on any current BB browser. Its simple - if you have an ad there on your BB its not flash. If the ad is not there and appears on the IE, FF etc. it must be something else. Happy to discuss further what it may be.

Where exactly are these running on a BB browser?

This browser is nice, and it could have derailed my plan to escape to Android. However, there is still so much more available on Android (Google Maps with voice directions?) that still beats the pants off of BB's OS.

BlackBerry is getting there -- just way too slowly.

with all these new updates RIM will have the top 5 spots in the IDC report Q1. Just gotta get a way to incorporate widgets, Web kit, and all those new screen candy into 1 OS.

It's Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Files. GIF files also work on the Blackberry and Iphone browsers currently.

In my Blackberry browser for the 5.0 update Sprint just released for the Tour, Javascrip works, as well. Where you'll run your pointer over a certain area and menues will drop down.

Also, i've noticed in the 5.0 browser on Tour, you can play Mafia Wars and it doesn't refresh page, the changes just happen, like on full browser -- but PAINFULLY slow.

Either way, there was no flash in that video. Hopefully the plug in will be inserted at time of release, but that's just hoping.

HTC Touch Pro 2 is looking mightly appealing right about now...

WCM

For what it's worth my Palm Pre Plus running the webkit browser and scored a 77 on the acid test. It kept getting errors saying too many downloads and things failing.

Hooray! Blackberry catches up to 2007! What's next, Microsoft revamping their mobile line?......wait.......

Hooray! Blackberry catches up to 2007! What's next, Microsoft revamping their mobile line?......wait.......

If BB browser is set to internet browser with ID as IE. It will show it as animated GIF. Good part - I need not re-think and re-evaluate my opinion of RIM engineers and management. Bad part - no flash.

Sometimes they don't put the same add in the same spot.

Try this site, it's perfect for those files and you'd think you were looking at flash all over.

go to publishersweekly.com

Let it load and put it full screen -- if you have it in columns, press the X button.

Let me know what you see...

WCM

Lemme guess, only 5.0 OS, which rules out 8330m users. Awesome.

I can't fathom why I am not too excited. I am happy that it is coming down the pipes, but, in some respects, it almost seems too little to get my pants in a bunch about. Like it's something that should have been done so long ago that I can't bring myself to dance for joy. Or maybe it is because of the uncertainties, such as whether any of the current devices can hope to get this, or when the release date is slated for. Or maybe its because one would require a corresponding increase in screen real estate for Blackberrys other than the Storm to really get excited about the browsing experience. I just don't know. Maybe when I get it, I'll be far more excited about it.

WOAH THERE REALLY IS FLASH!!! Check the left advertisement around the 40 second mark!!

LOOK TO THE FAR LEFT AT 0:41. i SAW THIS ON ANOTHER BLACKBERRY AND HAD TO MENTIONED IT. THERE'S AN AD THAT WITH AN ORANGE ARROW THAT MOVES.

It is great thwt blackberry smartphone will be getting an updated web browser, but it doesn't really separate them from the crowd. Now they will have a browser just like every other Palm, iPhone, and Android device. I hope they have something else around the corner to compete.

did anybody else notice he's using the Iron man MacBook Pro skin on his computer lulz

random but i dont really know this stuff at all but i personally just did it on my storm 2 and it got a 90/100 is ten points thta big a difference? and what does it test?

Demos are nice, real world will be a lot different I'm sure, depending on the BB it's loaded on and the other apps that will be running on the BB of choice.

And which versions of BB OS will get a new updated browser?

so 3 years late on apple and nothing innovative. impressed. they had 3 years to develop one and didnt. even palms browser is better then this....

I loaded up acid3.acidtests.org and my Storm 9530 scored a 93/100 with the BlackBerry browser. What are you guys doing to score a 90/100?

i cant wait to get this on my 9700!!!

We need this like two years ago. Looks ready enough to me to be released (or "oops, I accidentally slipped this into an OS leak..."). Even if it's not technically "ready" it's certainly already 100 times better than what we have. Let's get this thing out to the customers RIM!

Will this be something that you just add to your existing BB?

Because htc phones w/android; are becoming the phones to beat, so to speak. I just don't think an iphone is and has never been any real competition to rim in terms of phones. Still, I may have to check out the htc desire and legacy!

The best thing is that you can start developing compatible Web apps now :)

http://eclipse.org/blinki/

and the emulators are coming soon.

Can't wait for Q2 when it will be released with Flash support :)

I don't like being forced to use Bing. When will we get to try the new browser?

I'm trying to do it on my phone, but it keeps saying that "Scripts" must be running, when JavaScript is in fact turned on.

Just did Bolt. It got 100/100, but it just loads, it doesn't show the animation, so there's really know way to say for sure that it did great, but it certainly did well. I also did Firefox last night it got 93/100.

Us BlackBerry users need this browser ASAP!!!!! I can't wait to get this on my BB!! I sure hope we will get it real soon.

That still doesn't pass the Acid3 test because it has that red box or whatever. That shouldn't be there. The Acid3 test is composed of 100 tests. Just because it gets a 100 does not mean it passed all 100. It just means it completed them. But technically it does still fail the Acid3 test.

What is up with not having Flash? Is HTML5 supposed to mean Flash won't be needed?

Looks good but lets seem them get it on my phone before October when my contract is up and I decide weather I want a Nexus One or not.

last i heard this is supposed to be ready in the summer of 2011, by then someone will have a better browser, and a YEAR is a long time in smartphone tech