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by Dieter Bohn
Aug 27, 2010
Fennec Alpha, aka the Firefox Mobile browser, is now available for Android phones (and the Nokia N900). Just point your Android browser to http://firefox.com/m/alpha to give it a downl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2010
It's been several months since our hands-on with Opera Mini while it was in beta, and today it's gone final, hitting the Android Market as Opera Mini 5.1. [Market link | App Brain] For those new...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2010
Google made a pretty big splash at its Google IO conference when it said the browser on Android 2.2 is the world's fastest. And Ars Technica has done some legwork that backs up that claim. In the cha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 27, 2010
When it comes to the development of Fennec -- Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser -- the Maemo client is a ways ahead of Android, which is still very much in Alpha status. And so we watch the Maemo deve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
For those of you following the development of Mozilla's Firefox browser for Android -- also known as Fennec -- you'll be happy to learn that basic multitouch has been added in a development build. Th...
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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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 15, 2010
You've probably noticed we love Firefox mobile. With good reason, the desktop client is clearly a great bit of software and everything we've seen makes us think the mobile version will be too.&n...
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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 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
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...
