Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

About about a month in beta, Opera Mini 4.1 has been released.  The featureset is unchanged, consisting of: 50% speed increase from Opera Mini 4.0 URL suggestion / autocomplete Save pages for offline viewing Upload/download files (ringtones, images, etc) from within the browser. There's no reason not to upgrade, so go get it at OperaMini.com.

Opera Mini now works on Google Android

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Android keeps looking better and better.  Opera has just announced that they have created a version of Opera Mini specifically designed for Android.  Opera Mini is my favorite browser on the N95 (though TeaShark is a close second), and I'm glad they decided to built it for Android. Now, just get ...

Opera Mini 4.1 Beta released

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The beta version of Opera Mini 4.1 has been released, with a handful of new features: 50% faster than 4.0 Autocomplete URLs Save full pages Download and upload files from within the browser You can get it at operamini.com/beta (via AllAboutSymbian)

TeaShark is an impressive mobile browser

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

TeaShark has just released their mobile browser into beta, and it's quite impressive. It features a nifty way to handle multiple tabs, the rendering is solid, and load times are quite good. In a lot of ways it feels similar to Opera Mini. It does a neat thing with ...

Server upgrades for Opera Mini 4

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Opera has just finished updating the server that powers Opera Mini 4, with some nice enhancements. From their forums: Added a simple UI to the server-side preferences that exists. Go to 'opera:config' to configure some settings. Tweaked phone number detection, there should be somewhat fewer false positives now, but you can now also ...

The Weather Channel launches new mobile site

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The Weather Channel has just introduced a long-overdue update to their mobile site, finally making it something worth using. Some of the features include: Hourly Forecasts Current Conditions Hurricane Central Radar and Satellite Maps Severe Weather Updates Airport Delays Pollen Conditions Traffic Baseball Stadium Forecasts More information about this update can be found here, or you can pull up the new ...