The other thing that iBlueAngel really does well is tabbed browsing. Using a simple controller at the bottom of the screen, you can add and delete tabs, and move between them. The program caches the contents of the visible page, so moving between tabs takes no time at all. Tabs are remembered between launches of the program, too, so everything you left open will be open when you return. I'd love to be able to horizontally swipe to switch tabs, but tapping a screen button isn't too hard.

iBlueAngel isn't quite ready to replace Safari, though. It doesn't support landscape mode, and the program is also somewhat buggy, crashing on me a half-dozen times in the span of a day. Still, the feature set is compelling, and if the bugs get squashed, landscape mode support is added, and more sites work with it, it will make a serious run at replacing Mobile Safari on my iPhone.

WebMate:Tabbed Browser: WebMate is designed to speed navigating through link-heavy sites, such as , or even the Macworld.com home page. On a desktop Mac, the easiest way to use sites like this is to Command-click on each link you'd like to read, to open the link in a new background tab. Then after you've clicked a number of stories, switch through the tabs and read what's loaded. Close each tab as you finish reading, then repeat the process. WebMate aims to bring that same technique to the iPhone.

The main interface in WebMate has a URL box, forward/back arrows, and a reload icon at the top of the screen, and a row of buttons at the bottom to control the tabbed browsing experience. The leftmost On/Off button is the key to WebMate; when set to On, any link you tap will open in a new background tab. When set to Off, links open as usual, in the current window. The next set of icons lets you switch tabs, and shows you your current tab and total number of opened tabs. Finally, a trash can icon lets you delete the currently-viewed tab.

WebMate doesn't include any sort of bookmarking or history features; it's really designed to speedily browse through link-heavy sites. (It does, however, work in both portrait and landscape modes.)