Cricket TXTM8 3G tries, fails to include entire alphabet in name
It may not be quite as adorable as its 3G-less predecessor , but Cricket's TXTM8 3G is likely to find an audience just the same -- people love the portrait QWERTY form factor, after all. The phone features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, web browser, and -- as the name implies -- support for EV-DO Rev. 0 data.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: alphabet, audience, browser, cricket, Glow, include-entire, megapixel, portrait, predecessor, result, very-difficult, web, web-browser
Skyfire browser for iPhone hits the App Store, ready to play your Flash videos
It's been over two months since it was first submitted for approval , but the Skyfire 2.0 web browser for iPhone is now finally, officially available for download, complete with the ability to play Flash videos... sort of. To get around the iPhone's Flash restrictions, the browser actually transcodes the video in a way that lets the phone only see HTML5, and it compresses all videos by about 75 percent in the process to ease bandwidth concerns
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, app store, engadget, facebook, head-on-past, iphone, ipod-touch, mode, store, video, web-browser
BlackBerry 6′s WebKit-based browser bests the competition in a good ‘ol standards showdown
It's been almost a year since RIM picked up Torch Mobile and locked its newly acquired division in a closet, telling those coders to not come out until BlackBerry had a world-class browser. Early tests from Salomondrin, the self-described "007 of the Phone World," indicates that those tired engineers can now finally go home and get some sleep. The new WebKit-based browser, a part of BlackBerry OS 6.0 , managed a score of 208 on the Acid HTML5 tests, measuring browser compliance and performance.
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, blackberryos, browser, competition, iphone, only-question, phone-world, the-competition, torch-mobile, web-browser
Opera Mini 5.1 finds its way to Android, too
Just a scant few days after the Java-based release for featurephones , the Android build of Opera Mini 5.1 (which, admittedly, also has its roots in Java) is ready for your browse-happy ways. As with the featurephone release, the focus here is almost exclusively on improving performance, an impressive goal considering that Opera Mini 5 was already burning rubber on many devices. Additionally, 5.1 is said to improve page layout on the latest round of high-resolution phones -- a good thing, considering many of us are now considering WVGA a bare minimum
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: burning, burning-rubber, days, impressive-goal, layout, opera, opera mini 5.1, opera-mini, operamini, Roots, rubber, web-browser
Firefox 1.1 hits Maemo in final form, featuring Add-ons, Save to PDF and more
Two months after an impressive beta , Mozilla's finalized its first full mobile browser for Maemo -- beating iPhone , Android and most assuredly Windows Mobile versions to the punch. Though it doesn't seem to have gained any new features in the interim, what it does bring to the table is sweet indeed: portrait browsing, auto-updating add-ons and the ability to magically convert webpages to PDF right on your phone. If you have a Nokia N900 or N810, do your device a favor and download it right now; if not, you'll find a handy guide to your burning jealousy at our more coverage link
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: burning, engadget, features, guide, interim, mobile, mozilla, nokia, nokia-n900, web browsers, web-browser, webbrowser, webbrowsers
Symbian^3 reviewed in exquisite and ruthless detail by Eldar Murtazin
No folks, those mythical N8 review units still aren't on our doorsteps, but we can offer you the next best thing: a thorough (we mean thorough ) overview of the Symbian^3 environment that will be front and center on Nokia's next great phone. Eldar Murtazin of mobile-review reports on everything from the sophisticated handling of contacts and caller ID pictures, through the noticeable speed improvements, past the limited utility of online widgets that display only two lines at a time, beyond the "weak spot" web browser, and all the way to Symbian's unhealthy habit of "clinging to continuity." It's an enlightening read, which pulls no punches with its conclusion: Symbian^3 is an evolutionary step up from S60 5th edition, which brings nothing new to the market and offers no comparative advantages. Strong words from Eldar, paricularly when he doesn't disclose what build of the OS he's using; his rationale, however, is that his analysis relates to overarching design decisions and ignores software bugs and version-specific foibles
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: analysis, decisions, design, doorsteps, foibles, mobileos, nokia, speed, symbian3, web-browser
Google I/O recap: more web than you can shake a frozen dessert at
Whew, Google really knows how to pack it in. Two days of Google I/O and we've got enough info on the future of the web, phone, and television to write a couple sci-fi novels and retire
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, download-server, flash, gingerbread, google io 2010, googleio2010, internet, microsoft, partners, server, web, web-browser
BlackBerry Bold 9800 slides open, shows off promising WebKit-based browser
We've known RIM has had a WebKit-based browser in its rear pocket since Mobile World Congress, and with confirmation that BlackBerry OS 6.0 would have traces of WebKit throughout, this discovery was simply inevitable. The BlackBerry Bold 9800 (polarizing design and all) has just made its most interesting appearance yet, this time showing off a purported WebKit-based web browser with a trio of tabs collected up top. Never mind the fact that whoever was using this clearly wishes he / she was browsing on an iPhone -- it's the 100/100 Acid3 test result that really titillates.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: acid3, BlackBerry, browser, congress, mobile-world, pocket-since, Rear, result, rim, traces, web, web-browser, webkit
ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share
Well, it doesn't look like the news is getting any better for Motorola these days --- ComScore's latest report finds that the company has slipped from its top spot in US market share among mobile OEMs into a virtual tie with Samsung and LG, with Samsung edging out Motorola by just "a fraction of a percent." They're followed by RIM and Nokia, who are now in a tie for a distant fourth place at 8.3%, and Apple, which is said to have a five percent share.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, comscore, country, motorola, oem, rim, samsung, verizon, virtual, web-browser
Gartner forecasts phones overtaking PCs as most common web browsing device by 2013
Predictions about phones overtaking PCs at one task or another are hardly anything new, but research firm Gartner has gotten a bit more specific than most with its latest forecast -- which, among other things, foretells of a day when cellphones will be the most common device used for browsing the web. That momentous event will supposedly happen by 2013, when Gartner expects the number of browser-equipped phones to exceed 1.83 billion, compared to 1.78 billion old fashioned computers in use. According to Gartner, however, while browser-equipped phones will outnumber PCs by then, they won't actually be most folks' primary browsing device until sometime in 2015.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: browsing, entry, event, forecast, fri, gartner, internet, momentous, personal, research, result, web-browser, webbrowsing