First Look: New Web Browsers for iPhone

Here's a hands-on look for the new Web browsers available today for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The Edge Browser (free)

The main feature of The Edge Browser is that it removes the clutter from an ordinary Safari Web page to present sites in full-screen glory. Besides the reception, time, and battery bar at the top of your iPhone's screen, you should see nothing but the page.

Problem is, all I saw was nothing. I loaded the browser and as I was trying to figure out how you're supposed to leave the Apple Store page, it crashed. When I rebooted the app, I got a blank white screen. So the edge of my browser was taken off ... all the way off.

Incognito (US$1.99)

Those of you who are fearful of getting busted for checking out less-than-appropriate sites on your iPhone will be interested in Incognito.

This browser leaves no traces behind from your wanderings on the Web. Once you close the app, so also disappears your entire browsing history, or even that you were online at all.

Incognito is useful for those with a company iPhone or the generally paranoid.

Shaking Web ($1.99)

Using the iPhone accelerometer, Shaking Web compensates for small hand and body movements by jiggling the browser's screen. It functions by sensing movement and applying small but opposite movement to the viewable content.

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