Tag Archives: Android

How to Change the Android Browser’s User Agent

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I love using well-designed mobile webapps. But I hate it when a site blocks me from using its desktop version to do something the mobile one doesn’t support. Some browsers like Opera Mobile and the UC Browser let you change their User Agent header to impersonate a desktop browser and thus gain access to most blocked desktop sites. The Android browser lets you do this on a few devices and with some custom ROMs.  To see if yours does, press the … Continue reading →

Hands On With Opera Mobile 12 For Symbian and Android

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Last week, Opera Software released Opera Mobile 12.0 for Android 1.6 and up and for Symbian 3rd edition FP1 and later. Here’s a rundown of the new features in Opera Mobile 12 as well as my impressions using the new browser on both platforms. New Features on both Android and Symbian: The Start Page (image below, left) has been redesigned. Now it can store and handle more than 9 speed dials. To make adding Speed Dials easier, a new “Add … Continue reading →

Mobile Site Mini Review – @JebBrilliant’s “The Mobile Perspective”

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Formerly aBrilliantBlog, this is @JebBrilliant‘s blog on all things mobile. Jeb is the community manager for Phone.com and also runs a trade show and events production company. At The Mobile Perspective, Jeb covers mobile services, VOIP, social networking and devices. Content includes reviews, news and opinion pieces as well as video interviews with industry executives and major players. Jeb uses WordPress Mobile Pack to deliver a small footprint, quick loading version of the site to all mobile browsers. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading →

UC Browser Goes Gold, But Is It Still A Proxy Browser – First Look at UC 8.0.5 for Android

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  The first production (non-Beta or Gold) release of UC Browser 8 is now available in the Android Market. At the moment it’s only for Andoid 2.1 and later. The Symbian (3rd edition and latter) and Java versions are still at Beta V 8.0.4.  UC has ended development for Symbian 1st and 2nd edition, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry although older 7.8 or 7.9 versions are still available for these platforms from ucweb.com (PC) and wap.ucweb.com (mobile). This release sports a brand new UI that’s … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser Discontinued! Servers Shut Down

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The popular Android and Mobile Java proxy browser Bolt,  is being discontinued. The cloud service that it runs on will be shut down on Dec 14th, 2011.  The news came in the form of a cryptic message overlay that started appearing today in the browser. It reads Dear Bolt User, the free BOLT mobile browsing service will be discontinued starting Dec-14, 2011. Unfortunately, the economic circumstances prevent us from running a free service going forward. We apologize for any inconvenience … Continue reading →

Bolt 3.0 For Android Now Available To All

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Bitstream’s Bolt Browser for Android is out of beta and available in the Android Market. I haven’t been able to find a direct download link (needed for users with non-“Google Experience” devices which don’t have the Android Market). Android 2.1 or latter is required. Although labeled 3.0, this is actually the first public release of Bolt for Android. The latest Bolt for Java and Blackberry is 2.5 hence the 3.0 version. Features of BOLT 3.0 for Android include: Server side compression … Continue reading →

Slideshare’s New HTML5 Mobile WebApp Works (Almost) Everywhere, Even In Opera Mini!

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This week the popular presentation sharing site SlideShare launched a mobile Webapp.  Which is something I’m really excited about.  If you’re ever clicked a link in Twitter or an email using  your mobile browser or iPad and found yourself on Slideshare’s old non-mobile friendly Flash based site I think you will welcome the change too. According to SlidesShare the new mobile site supports the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The images above show it running on an HTC Magic phone running … 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 →