iPhone Browsers

To get the fastest internet connection from your iPhone, and to get the only kind of internet connection the iPod touch offers, you have to connect to Wi-Fi.

Using Safari on the iPhone or iPod touch is a joy. With its zoom and multitouch features, and its spot among, if not as the very, best mobile browsers on the market, it's an app everyone loves to use. Here's a tip to make using it a little more easier.

On iPhones running earlier versions of the operating system, opening new links in new browser windows was tough. Not in OS 3.0, though. Now, it simply takes a tap of the screen.

Web clips are a feature of iPhone software 1.1.3 that function like shortcuts to specific webpages. They can save users who visit the same sites frequently time and a lot of taps. Here's how to make and delete them.

You can zoom in on any web page in the iPhone’s Safari browser just with a couple of simple finger motions. Here are two ways to zoom in using Safari.

In desktop web browsers, you've long been able to run a search for a specific word or phrase on just the page you're looking at. Safari, the iOS' web browser hasn't been able to do that - until the introduction of iOS 4.2, that is.

With its always-on 3G Internet connection in addition to its Wi-Fi capabilities, the iPhone is a terrific web browsing device. When you browse the web on it, you're probably using Safari, the iOS's built-in browser. Read on to learn the basics--and a few more-advanced tricks--of Safari.

There are a lot of web browsers other than Safari that you can use on the iPhone, but is IE (aka Internet Explorer) one of them?

The iPhone may be famous for not supporting Flash, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some browsers that bring Flash to the iOS. The question is: are they any good?

Safari's a good browser, but there's a whole world of alternative iPhone browsers that offer all kinds of features--Flash, tabbed and fullscreen browsing, file downloads, gesture-based controls--that Safari lacks. See how these apps stack up and which ones you should try.

Want a simple, at-a-glance way to compare alternative iPhone browsers? This chart is what you need. Find out which browser apps support Flash, have native iPad versions, and more.

The advanced multimedia features of Safari--including AirPlay--are pretty cool. Learn how to use them here.

Discover the basics of using Safari, the iPhone's default web browser, here.

Learn how to manage bookmarks in Safari on the iPhone--add them, edit them, arrange them, and delete them.