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...
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...
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....
Mobile web browsing until recently was a painfully slow and ugly experience. Web pages, if they ever did finish loading before you got completely bored of twirling your fingers often rendered so poorly it wasn’t worth the time to try and navigate the broken up pages. Today at MWC, Vodafone announced a new partnership that they have forged with Opera Mobile. The fruits of the partnership will come in the form of a customized browser modeled around Opera Mini that...
