what is Shrunq?
Shrunq is a smart, small and free web browser for cellphones.why?
This project was designed and built because I was frustrated being stuck with reading the stripped-down, toothless wireless web, or finding too many of my favorites sites simply impossible to reach. Sure, I could pick up a newspaper, read a book, or stare blindly off into the horizon -- but, damn it, I've got my phone, I've got signal, why can't I hop online and waste time like I want to?Sounds good? Groovy...then join me.
Click here to see a demo of what the Shrunq'd web looks like!
when?
Now, in beta release. I'm hoping to find people with a variety of phones, from a variety of carriers. Find out if you and your phone are a good match for Shrunq. If not, my feelings won't be hurt.smart
- Loads regular HTML pages, including images.
- Features include automatic page scrolling, full support for cookies, page caching, and basic form support.
- Will display content while it continues downloading, and a "skip to content" button to skip over spaces or navigation links to meaningful blocks of text.
- Self-reliant -- loads and parses content on the phone, so you can connect to sites even if my server is down.
- Can also use a proxy-server to pre-parse out needless code, and compress files for quicker network performance.
- Hey look, no annoying pop-ups, viruses or spyware! Heck, that alone makes the Shrunq'd Web a nice place to be.
- Shrunq can do all the parsing and processing, so you can connect directly to websites for text content -- no content proxy server needed.
- Images that are not in a compatible size or format are pre-processed on Gravity Monkey servers.
small
- Will scale text and images to fit your phone's screen.
- Under 80k install.
- Requires approx. 400k memory and 15k data space.
- Built with J2ME 1.0 to work with any Java™ enabled phone or PDA.
free
- No silly upfront costs, no silly ongoing "subscription" costs. Dude, it's a browser, it should be free. Besides, if I give it to you, you won't get too pissed when it breaks.
If you want to find out more technical details and more about why it works the way it does, click here.
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