Surfy - Bing 2024

Speed and Depth

This is a well finished product and with a user interface that I find very comfortable.

The main navigation screen - with the capacity of three tabs in the free version I'm reviewing - works both in portrait and landscape, with the bottom menu automatically positioned on the side.

Another option I have is being able to see the window in read-only mode, which hides the options bar, the toolbar tabs and expands the viewing area to its maximum. Leaving only a small icon in the lower right corner to return to normal mode.

Of the three icons I have in the options bar, the one on the left takes me to the favorites panel from where I can go to my home page, favorites management or download management . The center icon allows me to add a new tab – remember, limited in the free version. And the button on the right is the one that allows me to activate the reading mode that I have described above.

But the interesting thing starts if I display the options bar by clicking on the ellipsis icon in the right corner of it, accessing a list of options that I find very useful.

Hub It is the backend of the browser where I have access to the management of different browser panels. So I can add or remove bookmarks, review or search the browsing history, manage downloads, and access the browser's configuration options, which are quite a few in turn.
Forward/Refresh Two basic actions in any browser. The funny thing is that I can refresh the page by shaking the phone since it recognizes it as a gesture command. Does this stop being a bit useful when using large 6 devices? or more.
Listen to the page According to the browser configuration and the voiceover files that we have installed, Surfy reads us out loud all the content of the web in which we are browsing, ignoring the . Very flashy at first, but tiresome quickly, if you can use your eyes.
Reading mode. Yet another place to configure the browser window in this simplified interface format.
Desktop Mode I find this option very convenient. What it does is identify the device on the web as if it were a computer or a mobile device. On most Sites this means you see either a full desktop version or a reduced Smartphone version; but this does not always work well and it is necessary to force the web version that best suits our mobile and browser.
Night mode Another option that I find very useful and comfortable is being able to adjust the brightness, contrast, and color range, to make navigation more pleasant in low light conditions or in the dark, further mitigating the phone's own glare.

The other options are more normal and are present in all self-respecting browsers: private browsing, add to favorites, pin to start, share or exit the application.

Finally, note that I can use Google Mobilizer to render the pages and thus reduce the consumption of bandwidth - which means extending the duration of the 3G/4G navigation vouchers - without practically it is noticeable in the painting of the Web.

In short, a good browser for Windows Phone 8 that would have an excellent position among users if it didn't have the brown beast of the Internet Explorer 11 as competition.