Category Archives: Browsers

Opera Mini and Mobile Update Adds Symbian Belle Support and Better Anna Keyboard Integration

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Opera Mini 6.1 - Tabbed Browsing on the Nokia C7

Nokia’s latest Symbian Phones, the Nokia 700 and 701 have started to ship and are already for sale in Thailand and possibly elsewhere.  These phones are running Belle, the latest iteration of the Symbian OS. As there are leaked copies of Belle firmware for the Nokia N8 floating around on the Web so many Nokia power users are also already runing the OS. However, Belle users who are also fans of Opera’s mobile browsers got a nasty surprise when they … Continue reading →

Hands On With The New UC Browser 7.9 for Symbian and Java

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UC Browser 7.9 Symbian - NY Times

UC Mobile Ltd has released a new English language version of their flagship product, the UC Browser. Although the Chinese language edition of UC Browser 8.0 has been out for some months, the new English version is a step behind at  V 7.9. It’s currently only available for Symbian S60 v1 and later and for Java ME.  Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile versions are still at 7.8 for the time being. You can get UC 7.9 by visiting wap.ucweb.com using your phone’s browser. … Continue reading →

New Bolt Browser Android Beta 2 – Beta Codes Here

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Bitstream has released a second beta of their Android browser. New in this release are: Video –  New Adaptive Streaming technology for better video performance UI fixes – for a smoother UI experience Social Tab –  Share links to websites, videos and more to Facebook. As before this is a closed Beta. A Beta code is required to download it. Bitstream was nice enough to share a code exclusively for WapReview readers. The code is “wapreview“. To join the Bolt … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile for Android Updated

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   There’s a new version of Opera Mobile available in the Android Market and from Opera’s download page. It’s dubbed Opera Mobile 11.1 update 2 and according to a changelog posted on the Opera Mobile Blog it includes the following updates and fixes: Added support for Honeycomb large screen compatibility mode Added support for font styles on Samsung Galaxy devices Fix for problem with text disappearing in text fields Fix for HTML5 <audio> tag auto-play Fix for mismatched RGB colors … Continue reading →

Nokia’s Browser Site Adapts Itself to Everything From S40 to the Desktop

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Nokia Browser Site

Nokia has launched a mini-site at browser.nokia.com alerting users that there might be an updated browser available for their phone.  The site touts the features of the new Symbian and MeeGo browsers and Nokia’s proxy based browser for recent S40 phones. For Symbian, the site showcases the latest 7.3 version of  the Symbian browser and its improved JavaScript performance and support for CSS3 and the viewport meta tag. According to Nokia, Browser 7.3 for Symbian is available for all Symbian 3 and S60 5th edition phones and for … Continue reading →

UC Browser for BlackBerry Release Candidate Download Available Now

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  UC Mobile Ltd is on the verge of releasing their first version of the UC Browser for BlackBerrys. You can grab a copy of the release candidate at uctest.ucweb.com:9415/test/. The download page uses WML so you need to use your BlackBerry browser or another WML capable browser like Opera desktop or Opera Mini to be able to view it. There are separate download files for Blackberry OS 4.2+, 4.5+ and touchscreen OS 4.7+ BlackBerrys. I don’t have a BlackBerry anymore so … Continue reading →

Using Opera Mini or Mobile To Fix The E6’s Too Small Fonts

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Nokia E7 Email App

I rather like the Nokia E6 which WOMWorld/Nokia lent me. It looks and feels very elegant and the keyboard is one of the best I’ve ever used on phone. The only real issue I have with the phone is the extremely small fonts used in HTML emails (image below, left) and for some mobile Web sites like CNN (image below, right). I’ve reduced the images so that they are about the size of the E6’s 2.4 inch screen when displayed … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 – Resizable Text Selection and More

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Opera Mobile 11.1 Text Selection

Today Opera Software released new versions of both its mobile browsers. Opera Mini 6.1 is now available at m.opera.com for Java, Symbian (2nd edition and later) and BlackBerry (OS 4.2.1 and later) devices and in the Android Market for Android 1.5 and later. Opera Mobile 11.1 is available from the same locations for Symbian (3rd edition and later) and Android 1.6 and later. My favorite improvement in both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile is with the way text selection for … Continue reading →