Skyfire being rereleased into App Store ‘in batches,’ coming to other nations in due time
Good news, sick-and-tired Safari users -- Skyfire 's back! Sort of.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, bandwidth, browser, cautiously-let, control, country, over-the-coming, pony, result, situation, store, webbrowser
Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android -- Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in "performance and responsiveness to user actions" (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed "Electrolysis" and "Layers," the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to "greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video." You'll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, content, download, fennec, firefox, firefox-mobile, greatly-improve, latter-promises, nokia, nokia-n900, result, webbrowser
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
Skyfire 2.0 beta now ready to set Android ablaze
We've been seeing mobile browsers steadily raising their game lately, so it was inevitable that Skyfire would look to shock and awe us with its first release for the Android platform. Version 2.0 introduces a brand new SkyBar -- which ironically sits at the bottom of the screen -- providing users with a trifecta of new features. Firstly, the Video link serves as a workaround for those pesky "your phone ain't got no Flash" missives by doing server-side conversions of Flash video into universally comprehensible formats like HTML5.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, entry, flash, iphone, mobile-browser, mobilebrowser, platform, sharing-feature, social, source, the-usefulness, trifecta, video, webbrowser
Google’s Chromium project ported to N900
Web browsing fiends of the world already have enough reason to envy N900 owners on account of the built-in browser's excellence and the availability of an official Firefox release -- both with full Flash support -- but if that's enough, there's now another name-brand option in the works. Well, sort of. You see, Chromium for Maemo isn't an official port -- but the Maemo community is filled with tinkerers, and that has inevitably led to the availability of a hacked version of the Debian release that apparently works quite wonderfully on the N900 (yes, including Flash) with a 100 score on the elusive Acid test
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: browser, buggy, debian, engadget, flash, fri, n900, package, release, repo, web, webbrowser
Dolphin browser for Android adds multitouch support on Droid
We've already seen that the Droid is perfectly capable of implementing multitouch gestures in third-party apps, and the most high-profile (if not the most important, period) implementation of that is in a good web browser where non-stop zooming is a way of life -- especially when browsing sites designed for desktops. Dolphin -- which has been kicking around for a couple months in the Market -- has just added multitouch support on the Droid, which automatically makes it an interesting alternative to Android's mediocre (well, mediocre by WebKit standards, anyhow) built-in fare.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: BlackBerry, browser, htc, mobile, nintendo, nokia, podcasts, related, video, web, web-browser, webbrowser