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In this episode I gathered web browsers that still actually work on the CDMA phones. Obviously I can showcase only the phones which I managed to connect to the internet on my carrier's CDMA network. Sadly, this carrier's CDMA network is currently being decommissioned, so this experience will not last long.

Typically, basic phones came with some sort of WAP browser, like Netfront, Openwave, Obigo, which required an intermediary WAP server to connect to the internet. Some, like Novarra's nweb, had their own proxy server. Due to time, and due to the fact that contemporary smartphones can handle the full-grown web, wap and other intermediary servers in their majority got shut down.

Luckily, basic and feature phones have BREW, and so, we can install third-party browsers on them.

I would like to show three custom web browsers on my phones, and one pre-installed on LG UN510 which still work.

As an example, I am using Action Retro's web-sites FrogFind.com and 68k.news built to show modern web on retro computer browsers. As you can see, it also works for the retro phones.

1. Opera Mini
This web browser uses Opera Software S.A.'s own intermediary server which compresses the data for the feature phone can handle it. Originally made for Java and Windows Mobile, it was later ported to a majority of mobile platforms including BREW. The BREW version was developed by the Polish team which previously developed the UI for Siemens SXG75 and BenQ-Siemens EF81 mobile phones. The BREW version became first available on TATA carrier in India and later introduced on Verizon in the USA.

2. UCWEB
This Chinese web browser also uses its own intermediary server which compresses the data for the feature phone can handle it. This BREW version was available on China Unicom carrier.

3. jB5 Browser
This is a standalone web browser which also handles Java-script. It was developed in 2009 for multiple platforms, including BREW MP. Developed by an Indian company Comviva. It does not use intermediary servers.

4. The Browser integrated in UN510 firmware.
Looks like a version of Obigo browser which does not require a WAP gateway.

As you can see, even the U350 phone can still handle the contemporary web on its tiny screen with the help of intermediary servers.

Action Retro's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoL8olX-259lS1N6QPyP4IQ

Music used from Youtube Audio Library:
Beginnings by Unicorn Heads
CPT by Drew Banga

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