Good news for Android as Opera Mini 5.1 has been released. Opera Mini, which compresses data by up to 90% makes page loads much faster. Opera Mini 5.1 features include:
Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone for free from the Android Market, or at m.opera.com.
For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mobile/.
Press Release can be found after the break.
Skyfire mobile browser users outside of North America will not be happy as they have just announced that they will be phasing out version 1.x: “Skyfire 1.X will no longer be supported outside of North America and Western Europe effective July 1st, 2010.” Worse is that all future development of the Proxy based browser version 1.5 will also be stopped as Skyfire is full speed ahead on the development of Skyfire 2.0 which is: “the first “hybrid browser” in the world, combining the best of native webkit rendering with the best of cloud web services, including our famed rich media engine, mash-ups, and more.” Skyfire has enjoyed a lot of success as of late with adding 600,000 users in the first few weeks of releasing their browser for Android users. Now, Skyfire will concentrate development on version 2.0 for the iOS platform iPhone and getting it into the App Store. After that they will focus on Android and Windows Phone devices.
Skyfire has also been attracting a lot of attention from “a number of major wireless operators and handset vendors about embedding Skyfire 2.0 into their default browsers, out of the box.” So with that kind of attention it is easy to see where their focus is going to be.
Read more after the break from Skyfire
[source: PhoneScoop via WMEperts]
If you are a fan of Skyfire then here is a new browser for you to try out! It’s called uZard Web Version 2.0.3.12 and it is a proxy based browser just like Skyfire and also does flash pretty well I must say! I found the user interface very easy to use and uZard did it’s job pretty well. My only complaint so far after a few minutes of playing with it is that it does not zoom in as well as Skyfire. As a matter of fact it uses a Pocket Internet Explorer version (on the left hand side however) zoom in/out scroll bar. The other thing I was hoping for is resolution better than VGA, but maybe down the road? I got a mini review photo gallery after the break, ahem David K. 🙂 So jump after the break and check it out!
Here is the website link to download. CLICK HERE
[via: WMPU]
Well now that you got your new Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, what do you do now? Browse the web with Skyfire’s new web browser fro Android! Skyfire 2.0 for Android includes a cloud-computing toolbar – the SkyBar – which includes three key features missing from the native Android browser, and missing from Fennec.
What’s in the SkyBar?
1. Video – this icon repairs any broken Flash video which would normally display as an error message on Android (see screenshot)
2. Explore – brings smart media recommendations to the user based on what they are looking at (including Twitter buzz, trends, other videos, and other sites).
3. Share – lets the user upload any website, video or link to their social networking accounts with a single click and status update
Check out this video for more on Skyfire 2.0 for Android:
I have been using Skyfire for my WinMo devices since it was in Beta and everyone was fighting over getting an invite. It is an excellent full browser experience for your mobile device. I have not tried this yet, but I can tell you if it works as well on the Android platform as it does on all my WinMo devices, you guys are going to be grinning ear to ear. Check out the full press release after the break.
Skyfire 2.0 for Android is available for download worldwide free at bit.ly/skyfireandroid
Opera Software today launched the newest beta version of the world’s most popular browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini 5, on the Android platform. Opera Mini 5 beta for Android brings a fast and cost-efficient Web experience to any handset built on the Android platform. Opera Mini, with more than 50 million users worldwide, enables … Read more