POGO - The 3D Web Browser by AT&T

Posted By   Nathan Russell   on   August-01-2008 03:40:08                                                                Article 3

Tired of browsing the Internet the same boring way? Perhaps you should prepare yourself for a browser making a leap into the 21st century. No I'm not talking about a new Firefox, Opera or IE upgrade or plug-in, I'm talking about Pogo, a new 3D Internet Browser brought to you by the minds at AT&T and Vizible. Are you prepared to browse the Internet your way?

"Pogo's graphical nature evolves the browsing experience from a text-centric interface to one that is highly visual, and therefore more intuitive, in line with the way people think and use the Internet." - Vizible.com

Here's What's In The Future Of Internet Browsing!

The Spring Board

Ever wish you could set more than one Home Page? Well the Spring Board is your home page that allows you to set multiple "One-Click" easy to access pages. Each page appears as a thumbnail of the destination's homepage. Best part is, you can add as many as you like.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks aren't something new to Internet browsers, however Pogo does it with style. A graphical layout allows you to organize and visually see what bookmark you're looking for at the time. As with the spring board, bookmarks are not just a list of links, but thumbnails of each bookmarked page.

What About Tabbed Browsing?

Pogo does not have tabbed browsing, it has something better! What we would call a tab, Pogo calls "cells". Each cell stores a visual representation (yes more thumbnails) of the web page you're browsing, not just a tab with the HTML title tag displayed. Just as with a tabbed browser, you can sort them however you wish.

Visual History

Wish you could find a page you visited yesterday or last week? Well with Pogo's new Visual History, finding the page you're looking for has never been easier. Searching has been made easier. You can find a page by mouse, keyboard, or simply browse the history itself. What really sets this apart from the rest, is the title clues that gives you information regarding the next or previous pages and when they were last accessed.

All in all, Pogo is a visually stunning browser. Very Mac or Vista-esque. The downside is that the system requirements need to be brought down a little bit so that the "ordinary" user can enjoy this one of a kind experience. Their beta sign-up page lists some system specs inquiring about what you're running. The lowest they go in the list is 1GHZ CPU, 512MB system memory, and 64MB Shared Video Card Memory, however the requirements far out way those. The browser is also only supported on Windows XP and Vista, of that it appears that it's only a 32 bit app as well. To say the least, in it's current incarnation, you'll need something that has a little more under the hood to get its full potential.

Worst of all, there seems to be some buggy aspects of the software not to mention it really doesn't speed web surfing up. As I said, it's more "visually stunning" than practical. But keep this in mind, it's still only a beta. Look how long Vista was in production. I'd bet that there's more development work to be ironed out before they do a full release, otherwise this will be a big flop in the browser realm.

Pogo is only available in a limited beta by invite only. However, they are planning two more phases where they will open the beta up to additional people ending with a full public beta release. As long as the bugs and speed get fixed, I'd use this bad boy. Reminds me of something out of the Iron Man movie.

Want to see more? Check out their Product Demo.