Category Archives: Browsers

S60 Opera Mobile 10 Text Entry Bug and Workarounds

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Ah, the joys of beta software.  It turns out that the  Beta 2 “Update”  release of Opera Mobile 10 that I raved about last week has a bug that inserts random text in mult-line edit fields. It’s bad enough to make using Web-mail and most online Twitter clients almost impossible. The problem occurs as soon as you type text that extends beyond the width of the screen. When Opera wraps the text to the next line it also copies part … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 S60 Updated – Inline Editing Gets T9 and Symbol Modes

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(Above) Editing Options in Opera Mobile Beta 2 There’s  a new version of  Opera Mobile 10 available for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones.  This release, dubbed “Opera 10 Beta 2 Update” adds full native editing and entry modes to in-line editing in web pages and the Opera Mobile GUI. Previous Opera Mobile 10 releases had two edit modes; “in-line” (image, top left) where you could enter text directly into fields on the screen but were limited to using triple … Continue reading →

Skyfire 1.5 for Windows Mobile Released

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Another day another new mobile browser! Today Skyfire launched version 1.5 of its server assisted browser for Windows Mobile (aka Windows Phone). I don’t have a supported phone so I can’t do a hands on, but if you are WinMo user I suggest that you head over to m.skyfire.com and grab the update.  If  you prefer to download Skyfire 1.5 to your PC for side loading visit get.skyfire.com.  To get a preview of Skyfire 1.5 check out this official video … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser 1.6 – Password Manager, Set As Default Browser on Blackberrys

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The mobile browser wars continue.  Hot on the heels of Opera’s second Beta of Mini and Mobile and UCWB’s version 7 release, Bitsream today announced that Bolt 1.6 is now available for download. If you are running a previous version of Bolt, you should be prompted to upgrade. New users can point their mobile or PC browsers at boltbrowser.com to download Bolt 1.6. According to the press release, the new features in Bolt 1.6 are: For all mobile data networks … Continue reading →

UCWEB Android Version Found!

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While poking around on the Chinese language UCWEB site looking for release notes for UCWEB 7.  I discovered an Android version of UCWEB7 Beta 1. I downloaded it to my Google Ion (aka HTC Mgic) and it seems to work pretty well.  It’s rather basic, with only fit-to-width “Adaptive Mode”.  I couldn’t find a way to zoom or vary the text size. But it is fast and supports tabs. The UI is in Chinese but uses icons to represent functions … Continue reading →

Updated: UCWEB 7 Final Released

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UCWEB 7 is out of Beta.  The official release is in Chinese only but, Manojr “Mannuforall” Tiwari  has done an unofficial English translation which is available on his blog. A release announcement with screenshots and a list of features (in Chinese) is  here (Google translation). I’m hard pressed to see any significant differences between this version and the leaked pre-release version I reported on last week.  Hopefully there are some bug fixes.  I did notice minor translation related differences in … Continue reading →

New Opera Mobile and Mini Betas – New Features, Fixes and Reduced Memory Usage

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Wowser! Opera Software released a second Beta of both Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 today.  I really didn’t expect a new release until after the holidays.  I’ve been playing with the new versions for about an hour now and I like what I see. Here are my impressions. The big changes are the addition of some of the most requested features that were missing from the first Beta Opera Link which synchronizes bookmarks, speed dial shortcuts and custom … Continue reading →

Leaked UCWEB 7 Java Version With Zoom Mode

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UCWEB guru “Jbpseudo“, sent me a link an English translation of a leaked version (7.02.3) of the upcoming UCWEB 7 browser.  The main change since UCWEB 7 Beta 2, which I covered 2 weeks ago, is that it now offers the equivalent what Opera calls “Desktop View” where pages are formatted more or less as they are in desktop browsers, with horizontal scrolling required to see the full width of the page.  In UCWEB it’s known as “Zoom Mode” and … Continue reading →