If you have always been left wanting more from the current edition of your BlackBerry browser, you're prayers have been answered. RIM, the maker of Blackberry, has acquired Torch Mobile, a company that makes the Iris browser - a fully featured, webkit based browser for various platforms.
After the advent of the iPhone, which offered a superior browsing experience on the phone thanks to its Safari Browser, demand was on for a far better BlackBerry browser. It is only now that the demand will see fruition. The Iris browser team, who has been now assimilated into RIM will obviously help RIM design the next version of the Blackberry browser. To remain competitive amongst the latest crop of devices, RIM would obviously want the browser to be feature packed and slick.
RIM, who has traditionally been a big player in the enterprise segment, is gradually seeing a shift from being a "niche" player to one that has a mass appeal. For the same reason, it is now concentrating on other facets of it's phones apart from the e-mail side of things, which obviously works well. Web browsing, apparently, is a very big decider when tech savvy people go out to buy phones and sadly, RIM was a bit of a laggard in this segment. With help from the Iris Browser team, that might just change in the future! Before rushing to buy a Blackberry now, note that the "new" browser is still in development and it might be quite a while when even an alpha version is up for grabs. Patience folks!
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