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Opera Mini on iPhone!
Feb 10th
ok… First things first. I’m confused. Apple doesn’t allow any other browser to run in iPhone. Any other product which will pose a competition for the Apple Apps are banned from the App store.
So why is Opera even bothering to release Opera Mini for iPhone??? To my query Opera representative responded via email -
“We are bringing Opera Mini to the iPhone to bring the Opera Mini experience to even more users. We hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in Web browsing experience. “
we too hope that but…. but…. I don’t think apple would do that… Maybe I’ll be proved wrong… Time will tell. Meanwhile jailbroken iPhones can use Opera Mini…. (Everyone jailbreak your iPhone)
Opera Mini is without doubt the most popular and most widely used mobile browser. Opera Mini is renowned for its compression technology, which results in significantly faster Web-page loading and reduces data surcharges. With favorite desktop features in its arsenal, such as tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager, Opera Mini is designed with usability in mind. By bringing Opera Mini to iPhone, Opera is expanding it’s user base by another 21 million (if Apple allows it, that is) Opera Mini for iPhone will be revealed in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC)
Visit Opera’s exhibit in Hall 1, C44, to witness a new way to surf the Web on the iPhone.
Skyfire 1.5 review
Jan 22nd
I’ve never previously used Skyfire, I owned an N70 earlier and Skyfire didn’t used to work in it. Now I’m using the Nokia N97 but Skyfire didn’t support S60 V5 smartphones…. So I jumped at the opportunity when I came to know that Skyfire team was looking for alpha testers. I installed Skyfire on my N97 and was amazed at the speed of the browser. How can a mobile browser that can display flash, silverlight etc. be so fast. it’s awesome.
Fast forward to today – Skyfire team has released the browser in beta for everyone to test. So what has improved and what has not –
Flash Videos – In alpha state audio and video were out of sync, and the experience was terrible… But in this beta I was amazed at the flash video playback, it was very smooth and even on the edge connection the video played without a hitch. awesome.
even the player is controllable (I’m thinking about flash games) –
The website rendering is surprisingly accurate -
of course it is going through some external server which compressed the data and makes Skyfire more faster, but streaming videos?
The controls are minimal and simple -
and it still has the sharable, all customized homescreen which greets you with your mail, twitter, facebook, digg, YouTube feeds etc.
This beta version of Skyfire has got problems too –
the frustrating checker board -
sometimes Skyfire does not connect to web at all, you’ve got to restart Skyfire for that. Interacting with some flash websites is difficult and the flash games are not playable.
So, how does Skyfire line up against it’s biggest competitor – Opera Mini/ Opera Mobile?
Skyfire beta is better than Opera mini 4 ….. but Opera mini / mobile 5 brought in many desktop like features which makes surfing the web on mobile so much simpler like saving passwords, multiple tabs, more speed, less data usage, a download manager etc. which makes Opera mini / Opera mobile better than Skyfire. I really like Skyfire and I hope the final version has password manager, multiple tab etc.
You can download Skyfire from here
or type get.skyfire.com in your mobile browser.
