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The Matrix Pro comes with Microsoft's Mobile Internet Explorer. Even though it is loaded with 3G, browsing was painful at best. Mobile IE can handle some HTML, but it does so poorly. It made an absolute mess of phonescoop.com. No matter what site I went to, pages took forever to load, even with a full 5-bars of coverage. The browser has plenty of options for controlling it and configuring it, but the number of menus and clicks it takes to adjust anything gets tiresome very quickly.

In the end, I downloaded Opera Mini and browsing was much improved. In side-by-side tests. Opera Mini dusted Mobile IE it the time it took to load sites such as MySpace, Facebook, CNN, Google and others. It was also much better at rendering sites on the Matrix Pro's small screen.

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The Matrix Pro comes with the requisite set of Windows Mobile themes, wallpapers, ringers and alerts, which can all be set however the user chooses. I wish there were more ways to alter the way the main menu is set up and organized.

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Pantech Matrix Pro C820

2.4" display 240 x 320 pixels
ARM 11 processor
1,320 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard

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