Less than 24 hours after I chided Skyfire for only offering only a limited closed Alpha of Skyfire for Android, the Skyfire for Android 2.0 Beta was released to all comers. Coincidence, almost certainly but cool nonetheless. As soon as it was announced I grabbed a copy of Skyfire from the Android Market with my T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (HTC Magic). You should be able to easily find it by searching the Market for “Skyfire”. If not or you have a … Continue reading
The battle of the mobile browsers heated up today with the release of a “pre-alpha” version of Firefox (aka Fennec) for Android 2.0 and above. Details are on Firefox Mobile developer Vladimir Vukićević’s blog. There’s also a Google Group that’s been setup for user feedback. The apk can be downloaded from bit.ly/fennec-android. Mozilla suggests disabling Apps2SD (if you use it) and installing Firefox to device memory. AndroidCentral seems to be the first site to post impressions of Firefox on Android … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2227 mobile sites. Blogging Posterous, (blog.posterous.com) the popular lifestreaming and instant blogging service, has mobile enabled all Posterous blogs with an attractive, one-size-fits-all mobile devices theme. Posts include comments, which are displayed on the same page as posts. It doesn’t seem possible to … Continue reading
POLITICO is a three year old politics focused daily newspaper distributed for free in Washington D.C. It’s widely read by politicians, lobbyists and other D.C. insiders. The paper’s website, Politico.com has significant national readership with an Alexa US traffic ranking of 287. The mobile version of Politico is at mobile.Politico.com (first image). It was launched shortly after the PC one in December, 2007. Mobile devices visiting Politico.com are not automatically redirected to the mobile version. But iPhones (and only iPhones) visiting … Continue reading
ArchBattle.com has released a mobile web client for their massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The medieval fantasy empire building game, which has been around for several years and seems quite popular, is entirely browser based. It’s ad-supported and is free to play. although there is a paid “supporter” option at $3.95/month that lets you customize your avatar but doesn’t confer any competitive advantages in the game world. To succeed in ArchBattle you need to manage your empire’s resources of … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2215 mobile sites. Mail-IM-Talk-PIM/Productivity and PIM Checklist miniapps.co.uk/checklist/ an HTML5 checklist webapp which works offline using the local storage API. Works with Mobile Safari, Android 2.1, N900 MicroB and Mobile Firefox and Palm WebOS. Content: Usability: Reference – Tools EveryTimeZone everytimezone.com Android, iPhone, … Continue reading
Opera Mini for the iPhone is a runaway success, it was the most free popular app in all 22 iTunes markets around the world for several days and over a million copies were downloaded the first day it was available. For many of those million plus new users this is probably their first experience with Opera Mini. The browser is very fast and intuitive to use but it does work a bit differently than Safari. Here are some fixes and … Continue reading
Bitstream updated the Bolt browser to version 2.02 today. There doesn’t seem to be a changelog, but according to a post by one of the admins on the official Bolt user forum its “..a minor update which will speedup the connection in some devices and also fixes the cookies/login-save issues in some devices.” Bolt will prompt you to update every time you launch it. Updating over the air is pretty painless with most platforms. If you have problems updating, visit … Continue reading