Tag Archives: Android

My Mobile Web Predictions For Last Year – The Scorecard

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Photo by over_kind_man – Some rights reserved Now that the year is over it’s time to look back at the predictions I made a year ago and compare them with what actually happened with mobile browsers,  web apps and  platforms in 2010. Prediction: There will be major improvements in smartphone mobile browser technology. Mozilla, Opera, Nokia, Skyfire, Google and RIM will compete to deliver a near desktop experience on high end devices. Expect to see better and faster JavaScript engines … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile for Android

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I finally got a chance to try the  Android Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 that was released last week.  It’s available in the Android Market for devices running Android OS 1.6 and later.  There’s a special Android OS 1.5 build that’s only available directly from Opera. If you never used Opera Mobile before the first thing you will notice is that it’s look and feel are almost identical to that of Opera Mini.  Appearances are deceiving in this case … Continue reading →

Image Quality and Word Wrap Issues With The Latest Opera Mini for Android Release

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Opera released an update to the Opera Mini 5.1 client for Android last week. It’s version 5.1.22460 and according to Opera changes include: Adjusted font sizes. Font fixes for Chinese and Japanese, so speed on pages with these fonts should be greatly improved. Improved stability. Improved input for Sony Ericsson X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. Chinese users can now download the application from the Android Market. A bunch of bug fixes. I installed the update on a T-Mobile MyTouch … Continue reading →

Updated: T-Mobile USA’s Prepaid Web Daypass – Now Available For Android

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Updated 26-Nov-2010 The Web Daypass now works on all phones including Android devices. T-Mobile introduced a new Web Day Pass option for its prepaid users this week.  It provides 24 hours of unlimited data access for $1.49.  While its a little pricey for everyday use, it should come in handy for travelers or anyone else needing to use data occasionally.  To activate the day pass you just open the browser and try to load a page and you will be … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #230

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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 2337 mobile sites. Tech StackMobile stackmobile.com A front-end to the StackExchange network of sites optimized for display on SmartPhones and web-enabled devices. StackExchange started with StackOverflow, a wiki-based user-driven help site for software developers that uses a system of voting and reputation to … Continue reading →

UC Browser 7.2 for Android Hands On

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It’s been “coming soon” for the better part of a year but the English language version of China’s UC Browser for Android landed earlier this week.  Was it worth the wait? Only you can decide but read on for my impressions of the newest Android browser. UC Browser (formerly UCWEB) is a proxy based browser like Opera Mini,  Bolt and the Symbian and WinMo versions of Skyfire. It  renders, reformats and compresses web pages on a UC server before sending … Continue reading →

Swype Opens Android Beta To All

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If you haven’t tried Swype yet and have an Android phone with an HVGA (480h x 320w), WVGA (800h x 480w) or WVGA854(854h x 480w) screen hurry over to beta.swype.com and signup. Swype will be accepting new Beta testers for “…a few days” at most. I was able to get into the first Swype Beta and have been using Swype for several months on an HTC Evo and an HTC MyTouch 3G (Sapphire) and thoroughly recommend it. Swype is a … Continue reading →

Bookmarklets on Android?

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Regular readers know I’m a big fan of bookmarklets.  I use dozens of them in my desktop and mobile browsers to do things like post links to Delicious and Twitter, subscribe to feeds in Bloglines, expand text-areas and fix unreadable color combinations on websites. I’ve written about using bookmarklets in mobile browsers here on WapReview and I maintain a small archive of Opera Mini compatible bookmarklets at o.yeswap.com. So naturally when Google generously gave me an HTC Evo Android phone at … Continue reading →