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by Phil Nickinson
May 06, 2010
So here's the thing about watching Hulu on the Android Skyfire 2.0 browser: You can do it at the moment, but don't count on it for long. We've been down this road before with Skyfire on Windows ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 29, 2010
Let's take a quick look at the new Skyfire 2.0 browser for Android, shall we? Full page rendering? Check. Flash video? Check. Bells and whistles? Check and check. Our quick verdict: So long...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 29, 2010
Here's Skyfire's promo video for its new Version 2.0 browser, which should be available for Android any time now. (It's not appearing in the market, and the manual download link's not working yet eith...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
This isn't the first time we've seen the Firefox mobile browser running on Android, but it's the first time that Mozilla's been comfortable enough with it to compile the app for us mere mortals to tes...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
HTC actually introduced new copy-and-paste features in the new version of Sense way back at Mobile World Congress, but let's take a look at it here on the Verizon Droid Incredible. You can select one...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
This is really quite sad, actually. It goes like this: A political satire app feature the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore -- the first such award for an online jour...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 07, 2010
Skyfire this afternoon shed a little light on where it's headed in the future with Android. You'll recall that the mobile browser company recently bought Kolbysoft -- maker of the popular Steel browse...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 01, 2010
Skyfire, the popular Windows Mobile (and more recently BlackBerry) browser made famous for its proxy-based render-anything features, is working on an Android application and looking for a few good alp...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 01, 2010
Earlier this week we showed you a very early build of Firefox for Android, and those who may have tried to install it noticed that the file was extremely large in size. And slow. As we all know, this ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 30, 2010
Here's the problem with developing your application in public, with the source code readily available: Next thing you know, what's really not meant for widespread dissemination is bring run by e...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
Opera Mini 5 beta hit the Android Market this morning, and we've been putting it through its paces. It's important to remember that this is Opera Mini, not the Opera Mobile we saw at Mobile World Con...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
The Firefox for Mobile folks teased us today with a couple more pics of the browser on Android phones. There's the shot of it above that they posted on their Facebook page, and they also linked to ano...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 16, 2010
Here's a quick look at Opera Mobile on Android. And it looks, well, like you'd expect Opera Mobile to on Android. It's nice and fast, thanks to the major compression going on, and it'll make a nice ad...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 11, 2010
In a bit of an Android browser shake-up, Skyfire -- best known for its Windows Mobile browser -- has purchased kolbysoft, which produces the popular Webkit-based Steel browser. For the time being, St...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 10, 2010
We've known for a while that Opera was planning on bringing a version of its Opera Mobile browser to Android. And now we're going to get a look at it. Opera announced in a news release that it will un...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 03, 2010
Like we said before, it's going to take some time before Fennec aka Firefox Mobile actually gets on Android. But at least it looks like porting Fennec over to Android is progressing rather nicely--the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2010
Word's been going around that Firefox will have a browser in beta in February. That's a bit odd, as I've been following the development of Fennec for Maemo and Windows Mobile -- it's being developed ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 21, 2010
Want multitouch on the Google Nexus One's native browser and don't mind a little rooting? Read on. Famed Android cooker cyanogen has whipped up the necessary files. You'll need a rooted Nexus One, the...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 04, 2010
According to NetApplications, mobile web browsing is now responsible for 1.3% of all internet browsing. 1.3% may seem like an insignificant number but it's nothing to laugh at. In the beginning ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 10, 2009
Opera CEO Jon Von Tetzchner in the fall said Opera Mobile one day would be released for Android, and that day has come. Sort of. Opera this morning announced its new cross-UI framework, which in laym...
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by Jeremy
Dec 08, 2009
Our lucky friends over at WMExperts have been testing Firefox Mobile Alpha 3, but we haven't had much hope for Android to get the Fennec browser. That is, until a recent Q&A with Madhava Enr...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 01, 2009
We know that the Motorola DROID is fully capable of multitouch gestures but because of reasons beyond our control, it's no where to be found in the apps. Luckily, if you're thirsting to multitouch you...
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by Casey Chan
Aug 06, 2009
Opera CEO, Jon Von Tetzchner, recently stated that their full-fledged browser Opera Mobile will be coming to Android. To quote:"Yes, we are working on an Android version," von Tetzchner said...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 17, 2009
Before you read this, we highly recommend watching the video above. We'll give you a minute. Okay. Now how cool is that? Layar is bringing the world's first mobile augmented reality browser to Android...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 26, 2009
Score one for the Android user, kind of. BSQUARE has announced that they'll be porting Flash over to Android for a "global tier-1 carrier". Their words, not ours. We're going to g...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 04, 2009
Our sister site the iPhone Blog dug up a great graph that charts the usage of mobile web browsers. Unsurprisingly, they bragged about their iPhone dominating the market but it's interesting to note...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
As great as Firefox is for desktop web browsing, right now, it's just as bad for mobile browsing. Okay, it's not that bad. But really, Firefox Mobile (they dropped the Fennec moniker to prevent confus...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 29, 2009
Opera Mini has finally left its beta stage and is being officially released for the Android platform. Watch out Chrome-Lite because Opera Mini 4.2 offers numerous fixes and some new features such a...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 07, 2008
RealEstate.com just announced that their website is now available in Android-optimized glory. Directing the browser on your G1 to www.realestate.com/android should pop up something similar to the i...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 15, 2008
If you've been living under a rock, been on vacation for the past month, or completely ignore tech news, you've might have missed that Google released a browser called Chrome. We'll spare you the d...
