Very unhappy with lack of support from developer. Program crashes & freezes...does not work with ANY graphics-heavy websites. There are other alternatives (WebPro, Blazer, Eudora). You have been warned.
Adam Oest wrote at 07/01/2005
To my dissapointment, this browser was extremely slow, displaying its pages very poorly, and it even made me reset my handheld. It is also annoying to browse sites from it because the address bar is located only in the menu.
tom smith wrote at 06/05/2005
Forget it this app people, BUT it does not access web sites that require JAVASCRIPT, (that only means about 65% of the web), pity though it is fast but it probavly does NOT handle web sites that require ACTIVE X either, too bad ...
Bram Voogel wrote at 04/03/2004
This program makes my os 5 handheld hang all the time. Reset is the only solution.
F M wrote at 03/04/2004
Why one star? Well I read about this program in a PC magazine and decided t otry it out. Well it worked well and then I decided to buy it. Well it worked well but then I tried opening a web site with a lot of graphics and that was the end of it. The program never worked after that. I checked my internt settings etc. everything was fine but it still did not work. Response from the developer - useless. No help at all.
Christine Hammonds wrote at 02/02/2004
I've installed the trial verison for my clie and it keeps freezing up and I have more than adequate memory space. Looks good but hopefully it will be smoother going forward.
steve lai wrote at 08/26/2003
One of the best browsers around. It has hi+res screen that shows a large web page. It looks great
on my clie nx70v. Only drawback is you can't go to a site where you have to be authenticated.
Yves Goulnik wrote at 08/07/2003
I think it's a rather decent tool and I unlike the previous review, I don't think the screenshots are cheated, that's certainly what I got on my Clie T625 and now again on my Clie TG50.
I agree that it can be slow, even with that 200Mhz cpu, and it occasionaly hangs which is annoying. NetFront requires way too much memory. Support from the PocketLink developers has also been good
2 wishes I sent to the developer, I would like to see this soon: 1) a back button and 2) the option to store the cache file on vfs as it gets very large
Reto Zimmermann wrote at 06/25/2003
Very slow: it usually only displays a page after it downloaded everything (other browsers like Blazer already display the text before all pictures are downloaded). Big pages therefore take very long until being displayed. Buggy: on many pages I got the error message "This page cannot be displayed" while other browsers had no problems with them. Cheated: the "screenshots" on the PalmGear page are cheated, PocketLink never shows web pages in this quality and style. And finally, I don't like applications that create their own category during installation; that's what the "Unfiled" category is for.
Joe Tomasone wrote at 05/30/2003
Seems like a decent browser, but doesn't seem to support http authentication (read: web page login) which I need.
Chris Peck wrote at 04/24/2003
Decent product. The features and the GUI are great! Easy to use and navigate the web. Hopefully a fix for the SJ33 will be incorporated soon, as it does constantly hang the OS forcing a reset. If this issue is resolved, I will certainly buy.
Chuck Pinkerton wrote at 04/09/2003
The program seems to work ok for viewing smaller pages. But when I try to view any page for a long period of time my Clie' SJ33 locks up and I am forced to reset :( . But is seems to have a great premise and looks that if the bugs get worked out this will be an excellent program.
Dr. Deborah Hilterman wrote at 04/04/2003
Took so long to load the pages even with a Tungsten T and PalmModem.
Also caused a system reset each time the application would hang on connecting....
I requested a refund for this product and I'm happy to say Palmgear via the developer honoured this.
Roman Pedan wrote at 03/15/2003
Getting better! Each update is fixing more bugs and adding new, important features. Pages still load much slower than Netfront but at least there is never a "Page too large error". The formatting is a worse than that of Netfront and I really miss the "zooming" feature that Netfront has. I am happy that the developers chose to support hi-res+ and I hope they add a landscape feature to the browser. This update seems to fix many of the bugs of the last one and I am yet to have a fatal exception. Keep working on it and keep updating!
Alexander Huber wrote at 03/06/2003
GUI and gfx support are very nice, but HTML support is not! It cannot cope with standard validated HTML pages, e.g. some links are not displayed as such, and tables support is very poor (it seems to ignore width="*" and has problems with tables within TD's)...
Craig Sherman wrote at 10/29/2002
Very pretty GUI, that's about it. Most pages won't load unless they are "palm-sized". Definitely has potential though.
fabien pannetier wrote at 05/16/2002
cherche aussi un navigateur web pour PALM OS 4.1
Rene Laederach wrote at 04/28/2002
Much faster than Palmscape, also eats a little bit less RAM. Has the
advantage that it is a bit cheaper too, and immune to Javascript
'features'. What my gripe is that it doesn't get the 5 stars is that I want to be able to enter gmx.net to read my email on the web.
Ronald Mundell wrote at 01/23/2002
It is good as far as it goes. It is limited to pretty much what comes up on the menu screen at startup. One of the main reasons I want a Palm browser is when I "need" to bid at Ebay. When I tried loading www.ebay.com, it reset my Palm.<BR>
It browses basic web sites, which I presume what the description means, but is becoming difficult to find sites without frames, or without java, or some other active script which this browser does not have anyway of displaying.<BR>
Very good as far as it goes, but I'm not interested in just sports, weather, and stock quotes (if at all).
Remember, this review is reflective of my needs, and you should try it for yourself.
Ben Cottrell wrote at 01/09/2002
I've tried a lot of web browsers for the Palm, and none of them have passed my "Go to google, do a search" test. PocketLink is no exception (it has problems with double quotes).
So why am I giving PocketLink an "excellent" rating? Because quite simply it's the absolute best of any of the Palm web browsers out there that I've seen. Its handling of hex-encoded characters might not be ideal, but at least that's a flaw I can work around once I know it's there.
Overall, PocketLink is solid, stable, and no-nonsense. It doesn't beat around the bush; it just gets the job done. And when you're on the road with your Palm, that's exactly what you need.
wrote at 08/08/2005