New features in this release are:<\/p>\n
The biggest news in this release is that UC finally supports Symbian^3, almost two years after the OS launched. This isn’t as big a deal as you might think as the Symbian 5th ed version of UC Browser has always worked reasonably well on Symbian^3 devices.<\/p>\n
I tested UC 8.5 on two Symbian phones, a Nokia N8 running Belle and a Nokia N95-3 (S60 3rd ed. FP1). For the most part it worked well on both phones. \u00a0I didn’t run formal speed tests but the latest UC does seem a bit faster the previous version.<\/p>\n
The QR code reader worked although autofocus seems to be disabled making it tricky to focus on and read some of the smaller QR codes I tried. A dedicated reader like UpCode<\/a> is easier to use.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, UC Browser 8.5 is a fast, capable proxy browser for Symbian phones and is a recomended upgrade for UC Browser 8.4 users. It’s available for Symbian 3rd ed. and later from the\u00a0UC Browser site (desktop<\/a>)\u00a0(mobile<\/a>). \u00a0Avoid downloading UC Browser from the Nokia Store if you want the latest version. The one in the Store is 8.2 and it will ovewrite newer versions without warning!<\/p>\n
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UC Browser 8.5 for Symbian \u00a0was released a few weeks ago. \u00a0UC is a proxy based browser similar to Opera Mini. Proxy browsers pre-render and compress pages in the cloud before they are downloaded to the mobile client, which makes them particularly suited to basic phones, slow networks and anywhere that mobile data is expensive. Although relatively unknown in the US and Western Europe, the UC Browser claims 300 million users worldwide. The majority of UC users are in China, … Continue reading