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Ready for a whole new set of browser wars? Not content to keep the web browser battle to the desktop space, Google’s native Android browser, uh, “Browser”, is now beating the long-standing Opera Mini for worldwide mobile browser market share. However, both are still far, far behind Safari, which commands over half of the market [...]
Today Verizon has announced that a set of feature phone including LG enV2™, LG enV®3, LG enV® TOUCH, Samsung Alias™ 2, Casio® G’zOne Ravine™ and Casio® G’zOne Rock™ will have Opera Mini available for web browsing starting immediately. This is an odd move for Verizon as feature phones aren’t exactly at the hight of popularity [...]
The makers of the popular Opera browser have been busy making their browser quick, stable, and silky smooth. Lately they have included some huge changes that are sure to make things interesting in the Android browser wars. Today Opera has updated both versions and are available in the Android Market. Huge improvements such as hardware [...]
This year’s CES is definitely going to be focused on tablets, and the Opera team is hard at work bringing their web browser to the Android tablet market. Their new browser, is named Opera for Tablets has the same general UI and feel as we would expect from the company. They have even released a [...]
Opera today has announced a new widget runtime platform for Google’s Android OS. They have released their mobile widget manager for Android and it comes with support for WAC 1.0 APIs – which makes it the first runtime that adheres to the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) 1.0 Specification.
Opera has released its latest browser, Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Android, offering faster rendering, tabbed browsing and – optionally – the company’s data-reducing Opera Turbo compression. A free download, Opera Mobile 10.1 beta also gets pinch-zoom, wireless bookmark sync and a password manager. You can download the new browser by visiting http://www.opera.com/mobile/ on your [...]
Opera has announced that Opera Mobile for Android will be released within a month, complete with hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom. The company claims that the former “allows Opera Mobile to run at lightning speed” and that “navigating a page will be faster than ever, and the improvements to the UI will be momentous.” Meanwhile, rather [...]
Opera has pushed out a new version of their eponymous browser for Android. Available free in the Android Market, Opera Mini 5.1 uses the company’s server-side compression system to shrink down requested webpages by up to 90-percent; that means smaller download sizes, preserving your data allowance, and faster loading. There’s also tabbed browsing, a password [...]
Boost Mobile has officially announced the Motorola i1. This Android powered handset will be available on June 2oth. Boost Mobile is a contract less prepaid wireless company, this will be the first Android handset on such a company.
A few months ago Myriad Group introduced a new way to speed up Android’s Dalvik Virtual Machine to drastically improve the speed of the system. Since then there hasn’t been much information on the progress of this project until now. This system works on the MIPS architecture and could potentially replace the Dalvik VM completely.
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