Mobile browsers: Worthy competitors
There are a number of new players that promise to shake up the mobile browser market
There are a number of new players that promise to shake up the mobile browser market
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Mobile browsers: Worthy competitors
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Sackboy
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Opera != Opera Mini
Quite different in how usable they are too.
Quite different in how usable they are too.
Praeses
Executive Member
Skyfire = US and UK only
Working great on my phone
You can always imagine that you're in the US...
I'just tried skyfire,feels and works fine...my worries,its not showing how much bytes you are burning & its noble effort to display web pages like a desktop makes them invisible and i can't locate a zoom function
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A point about opera mini that I learned over time - it compresses the web pages In fact -" Faster mobile internet as data is compressed before being sent to your phone."
I was using the s60 browser, and wikipedia used to be 200Kb+ and would not always render in that browser. Opera mini renders wikipedia properly, and also because it is compressed the pages are 20KB or so. I was suprised when I got my phone bill and saw the gprs charges. It was 1/5th of what I encountered with the S60 browser. It is also faster as there is less data to transfer, although opera mini does have to uncompress before rendering.
I will labour the point one more time - because of the compression, it is cheaper so much so that for casual browsing I don't use the desktop unless I need to.
I was using the s60 browser, and wikipedia used to be 200Kb+ and would not always render in that browser. Opera mini renders wikipedia properly, and also because it is compressed the pages are 20KB or so. I was suprised when I got my phone bill and saw the gprs charges. It was 1/5th of what I encountered with the S60 browser. It is also faster as there is less data to transfer, although opera mini does have to uncompress before rendering.
I will labour the point one more time - because of the compression, it is cheaper so much so that for casual browsing I don't use the desktop unless I need to.
demon angel
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Pity opera mini on my 5800 is so buggy!
the damn thing keeps crashing even with the java runtime update and firmwear.
Still waiting for a new symbian opera s5.
I cannot wait for mozilla's mobile browser fennec.
Surfing the web with Nokia's default browser is as expensive as desktop browsing!
the damn thing keeps crashing even with the java runtime update and firmwear.
Still waiting for a new symbian opera s5.
I cannot wait for mozilla's mobile browser fennec.
Surfing the web with Nokia's default browser is as expensive as desktop browsing!
The Source
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Opera mini all the way. I'm so happy!
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I have had the same issues on my 5800, it keeps on crashing.
Wogan
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Opera Mini doesn't actually browse. It runs through Opera's proxy, which crunches webpages before sending them to your phone (in OBML format): http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-binary-markup-language/
That's why it can afford to be so fast and light on data. Personally, though, I'm rarely away from a computer for more than 2 hours at a time, so I don't get around to doing much mobile browsing.
That's why it can afford to be so fast and light on data. Personally, though, I'm rarely away from a computer for more than 2 hours at a time, so I don't get around to doing much mobile browsing.