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New UC Browser 7.7 For Symbian, Windows and Java – Touch UI and Performance Enhancements

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Last week, UC Browser (formerly UCWEB) launched a new English language edition of UC Browser 7.7 for Symbian V.1-5, Java ME and Windows Mobile touchscreen V.5.0 and latter.  Download it from www.ucweb.com (PC) or wap.ucweb.com (mobile). The Symbian V.5 download also works on Symbian^3 phones like the N8. New features claimed for this release include: Improved server side compression and caching that reduces data traffic by 30% compared to the previous version of UC Browser. Better mobile page rendering and support … Continue reading →

UC Browser 7.5 for Android English Translation

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Click images to zoom Fans of the UC Browser on Android can now download an English language translation of the latest version of the Chinese proxy browser. UC Forum member James, aka JBIN did the translation. According to him the translation is not complete. It’s certainly usable, top level menus are in English although there are still some Chinese only fields in sub-menus and the browser start page (image top left) and some of the prompts (image bottom right) are … Continue reading →

UC Browser 7.5 for Java ME Goes Public

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UC Browser 7.5 for Java ME has been released.  There are no obvious differences from the Beta I blogged about last month, although I imagine there are some behind the scenes bug fixes. Download UC 7.5 Java from ucweb.com or wap.uc.cn (mobile). If you get a non-English page, click the “English” link at the top of the page (bottom of the page on the mobile version) and  then click “Java“. Both signed and unsigned versions are available.  Use the signed … Continue reading →

Download the New UC Browser 7.5 Beta For Java ME

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Yesterday China’s UC Mobile Ltd released a Beta of the a 7.5 version of the UC Browser for Java ME. It’s available in English, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Russian, but only from the UC Forum. Registration is required to download from the forum and I experienced problems installing the app via my phone’s browser using the Jad file links in the forum post.  There was a minor formatting issue with the files.  I posted direct links to corrected versions of the … Continue reading →

UC Browser 7.4 For Symbian, Java and Windows Mobile

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UC Mobile Limited launched an English language version of UC Browser 7.4 today. It’s available now at ucweb.com (mobile: wap.ucweb.com) for Symbian 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th editions, Java and Windows Mobile.  The Symbian 5th edition version also works on Symbian^3 phones like the N8. You need to download it from the UC site as the Ovi Store still lists the older 7.2 version. Android and iPhone releases of 7.4 are expected soon. The official press release has screenshots, performance … 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 →

UC Browser’s “Blank Screen” Bug Fixed

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It’s been quite a while since I’ve written about the UC Browser (formerly UCWEB).  It’s a proxy based browser similar in concept to Opera Mini. The company behind the UC Browser, UC Mobile Limited, is based in Guangzhou, China and  UC is the most popular mobile browser in China, claiming over 100 million users. The company is venture funded with investors including Ceyuan Ventures, Morningside Group,  Alibaba Group and most recently Nokia. I’ve been a fan of the UC browser … Continue reading →