Macworld has published a review of the latest iPhone browsers- “While there are many questions I’m used to answering about my iPhone—from “What’s your favorite app?” to “How’s the battery life?”—there’s one type of question I never thought I’d have to answer: “What’s your favorite iPhone browser?” Until just recently, the only possible answer to that question was “Mobile Safari,” because that’s all there was.
But now, there are more than half-a-dozen browsers available from the App Store from companies other than Apple. This sudden plethora of new browsers results from Apple’s decision to allow third-party browsers in the App Store—as long as they’re based on WebKit, Apple’s open source browser engine.
So why might you want a browser other than Safari on your iPhone? Each of the eight browsers reviewed here has found a rationale for its existence, whether that be faster page loading by skipping images, implementing tabbed browsing, or some other such reason. But how well do they work, and can any of these alternatives supplant Safari’s role as the primary Web browser for iPhone users? To answer those questions, I loaded eight browsers on my iPhone, then started testing…” Thanks to Jon.
It doesn’t look like any of this browsers use a different rendering engine to Safari. Rather they are just shells or extensions for the exisitng webkit renderer.