Mobile web browser with streaming capability

This paper gives an outline of our ongoing work in the field of a capable web browser for J2ME enabled mobile devices, especially cell phones. The paper gives a basic overview of the current stage in web browsing and additional networking advancements in portable devices as well as the progress achieved and future advancements in our project we are looking forward to. At the present stage, cell phones include their own web browsers but with limited functionalities and low multimedia support, especially on low bandwidth GPRS networks. The inability of J2ME in parsing a webpage and its substitutes like xml parsing are discussed. Our current work has reached web page parsing, downloading documents and multimedia files. Also, video streaming is currently in development phase but the current status promises positive achievements in future.