We looked at the Android release of Opera Mini 6.5 last month, but Opera has now updated its ultra-mobile browser with new versions for iOS, BlackBerry and Symbian phones. More »
At its Up North Web media event in Oslo today, Opera showed off some of the new features in its soon-to-be-updated desktop, mobile and mini browsers, including browser compression for Android devices and webcam access in your desktop browser. Here is a quick overview of the promised highlights. More »
Opera has long been the most popular alternate choice for people who don’t want to roll with their mobile phone’s native browser. The newly-updated Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 add social networking share buttons, pinch-to-zoom support on touch-enabled phones, optimisations designed for tablet users and claimed general performance improvements. More »
iOS: We’ve advocated the use of alternative browsers in iOS before, but if you’re looking for a really powerful browsing experience on your iPhone or iPad, look no further than Cyberspace, which adds Reader-like functionality and site-specific search to the browser itself. More »
If you’ve got a Nokia tablet or other device running the Maemo platform, you can grab the third release candidate of Firefox Mobile, out today with faster page loading, seamless desktop browser syncing through Mozilla’s weave platform, and many more cool things. More »
The developers of Fennec, a.k.a. Firefox Mobile, have stated that support for add-ons will differentiate it from other mobile browsers. Much like Firefox’s desktop version, a preview build of reader favourite AdBlock Plus might ensure Fennec gets its proper due. More »
Windows Mobile: Opera’s released an early, partially-featured beta of its Mobile browser that brings the server-side browsing speed-ups of Opera Turbo to touchscreen phones. More »
Firefox’s mobile browser, Fennec, is available in “milestone” (read: very alpha) downloads for HTC Touch Pro phones, but also most any Windows Mobile phone running at VGA (480×640). Early reports say it’s working, if slow. As the Mozilla team itself notes, this release has plug-ins disabled, features no soft keyboard input, doesn’t allow for program or add-on updating, and a few other “punts” made to get a working release out. Still, if you want to test out Fennec’s unique navigation and mobile browsing helpers and you’ve got a Windows Mobile phone, it could be worth a try—even if web site loading is not exactly snappy at this point. Fennec is a free download, built for the HTC Touch Pro but capable of running on Windows Mobile phones. A direct CAB link can be found right under the “Installation” heading in the link below. Fennec Milestone Release for Windows Mobile [Brad's Blog (Mozilla) via Gizmodo]
IYHY is a web-based service that acts as a text-only proxy, stripping down websites for faster load times. Like previously reviewed page minimisersBareSite and Finch, IYHY returns just the basic text of the site you plug into it. With Lifehacker.com and and news.google.com as our test sites, though, IYHY beat the two previous sites hands down for clarity and condensation. Formatting is cleaner, no images were mistakenly thrown back into the mix, comments were still visible, and with IYHY there were no annoying [IMAGE] tags scattered throughout the stripped content. For mobile browsing or surreptitious reading at the office, IYHY does a suberb job stripping all non-text elements from a site. There is no login required for the basic proxy service, but with a free account you can save your most frequently accessed sites to save some time—and your thumbs.
IYHY [via MakeUseOf]Popular user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia has released a mobile-friendly version of the web site at mobile.wikipedia.org. The site offers a trimmed down version of Wikipedia proper, supports 14 languages, and even has a mysterious Spoken Wikipedia setting that—though currently not enabled, may presumably one day read Wikipedia articles to you. More »
