Being on the mobile web just a few short years ago meant navigating extremely rudimentary WAP web pages and dealing with painfully slow load times. That is if you could even get a site to properly/completely load on your device. Thankfully technology doesn’t sit still and in fact runs a breakneck speed. In today’s world, we have browsers such as Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome, SkyFire, and Opera mini to name a few. While all of the mobile browsers listed (and...
Those enough who either don’t want a higher end smartphone or simply can’t afford one know that on your mid to lower-end devices web browsing is a chore. Pages render like crap, it takes forever to open a simple link, etc. Many phones as of late are capable of running some form or another of the Opera browser whether it be the free, almost universal Opera Mini to the more desktop-like Opera Mobile variant. Either way, Opera while not quite the reckoning force...
With the demand for mobile internet quickly growing and manufacturers rushing to keep up, the line between the traditional “smartphone”, “featurephone”, and “dumbphone” are quickly becoming obscure. It was only a couple years ago that a top of the line smartphone was the only way to enjoy WAP web pages and now, a few short years later we have HTML browsers cropping up all over the mobile device price range. But it’s about to get...
Ladies and Gentlemen: Start your downloadin’. Mobile users longing for a more enjoyable browsing experience will have a reason to take up gymnastics this fine Wednesday morning with the news that Opera Mini 5 beta is out and ready for your consumption. Building upon the already amazing predecessors, OM 5 adds several key features such as: Quicker, more intuitive UI and navigation Touch Screen optimized Tabbed Browsing *cheers* Speed Dial Password...
Packin’ a mobile device that either doesn’t have a browser that’s up to snuff or simply prefer the processing power and light load of Opera Mini? Good news…perhaps. A new teaser on Opera Mini’s site shows the simple tagline: “The Next Generation in Mobile Browsing”. What will it bring to the hot mobile browsing front? Will it decimate all other competitors? We’ll just have to wait a little longer as all of that...
