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Have you used IE9 Mobile ?

The initial version of (pre Mango) of mobile internet explorer was pretty poor (though I wouldn't call it unusable) but the Mango update comes with IE9 and it is quite good.

Edit: Still can't set any other browser as default however.

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Yes, I was referring to the version that is out in the market, not the upcoming version which I haven't tried. The IE8 version doesn't even support @media queries which makes it unusable in my book; you cannot see mobile optimized sites unless the dev uses a user-agent hack (which is bad practice).

It has by far the worst html5 compatibility of any mobile browser: http://mobilehtml5.org/

I think WP7 is pretty slick, but the browser is the most important app on a phone and IE is a deal-breaker to me.

the browser that shipped with WP7 initially is based on IE7 and doesnt have any HTML5 features. the one with mango is based on IE9 with a lot more HTML5 support.

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