The mobile web is chock full of explosive growth both from users and well as content publishers, advitisers, and so on. Navigating this vast environment until a few short years ago was archaic and painful at best. Thankfully, as technology has progressed, so has our ability to navigate that oh so loved environment. For Windows Mobile and Symbian users, Skyfire has finally let go of that pesky beta tag and is now a full fledged product ready and waiting for you to try it...
Mobile browser competition has been heating up in recent months. With fierce competition between mobile safari, Android’s mobile chrome (more or less), Opera mini, Bolt, and Skyfire, we consumers definitely have some choices and some testing to do. As you can see from the screenshot above, the latest SkyFire alpha/beta(?) 2 build for Blackberry that has been released to testers looks awesome. If you recall, flash support is one of the many things coming along for...
As anyone who uses the mobile internet heavily on a Blackberry knows, even the browser in the latest 4.6 and 4.7 OS’s are less than perfect…by far. They’re slow, render like crap, and don’t support many things such as flash and silverlight just to name a couple. That is now old news as various Blackberry users have begun receiving emails asking if they would like to be in the Skyfire alpha team. I wish I still had a functioning Blackberry as I...
The “mobile browser war” seems to in for a year of fierce competition. With Mobile Safari so far dominating mobile web use, the other mobile OS developers aren’t sitting down. Opera Mobile, Opera mini, Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox (Fennec), and Bitstream’s BOLT browser are all competing for you love and attention. In a press release to more or less gloat (hey with numbers like those above I would too) about their success in the last month....
Touchscreens are by far the biggest “gotta have it feature” currently on the market. If you cell phone doesn’t have a touchscreen somehow it becomes quite a bit less relevant. While the latest handsets are being designed specifically for finger friendly use, many older touchscreen phones that are getting newer software ported to them are becoming victims of shrunken screen/clunky navigation syndrome. Opera saw this developing problem and has...
