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Review: AT&T Quickfire

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The Quickfire has a decent browser that surfs quickly via AT&T's 3G network. Web sites load fast, for the most part, and the Quickfire has made is fairly easy to use the on-screen controls to navigate the Web.

Along the top of the browser screen is a set of control buttons, including a back button, URL button and refresh button. At the bottom are the zoom and options controls. The options menu is where you'll be able to view your history, jump to bookmarks and so on. There is also a button that lets you quickly switch between landscape and portrait modes. I found that most HTML sites loaded fine, though mobile-optimized sites popped onto the screen much faster.

The one really goofy thing is that the Quickfire's panning feature is the opposite of every other touch phone I've used... and this is really weird. With many touch phones, if you want to pan down, you press the screen and "push" the screen up to see what's down towards the bottom. This correlelates to what you'd do in real life if you were pushing a piece of paper up so you could see more content at the bottom. The Quickfire works in reverse. If you want to go up, you flick up. It just felt awkward and I had a hard time getting used to it.

 
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