SurfCube gives Windows Phone 7 the 3D browser it needed so desperately
If there’s one thing the 90s taught us, it’s that these silly 2D interfaces are only a passing fancy, and soon everything will be VRML-based mirror worlds of our physical space. SurfCube is a small, tentative step in that direction, turning the browser into a fake 3D experience of sorts, with favorites on “top,” and history and settings on the “sides,” while the front face of the cube is, naturally, the browser part. You can get around with swipes and flashy tilt gestures, and for $ 1.99 on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace it’s hard to go wrong. Just remember our VRML warning, and start investing in MicroVideoGoggles Inc. stock with your carphone once you get home from the record store.
SurfCube gives Windows Phone 7 the 3D browser it needed so desperately originally appeared on Mobile Phone Street on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:02:00 EST. .
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RIM’s Jim Balsillie says ‘you don’t need an app for the web,’ rejects Apple’s appification of the internet
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