The Opera Mobile web browser for Google Android lets you surf the web with multiple browser tabs, arrange your favorite bookmarks on a “Speed Dial” home page, and sync your settings with the desktop version of the browser. Now you can also use extensions to add extra features to the web browser, thanks to an experimental build of Opera Mobile…
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The Opera Mini web browser has made a name for itself by enabling reasonably fast web browsing on slow wireless networks. That’s because when you want to load a web page on a smartphone or other mobile device running Opera Mini, the request goes to a remote server where Opera grabs the web page, compresses it to save space, and…
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Mobile hardware is cool and all, but you know what’s really cool? Software. Here’s a roundup of some of the coolest mobile apps we’ve covered at Mobiputing over the last 7 days: DualWeb Browser for Android tabelts lets you view two web pages at once Sure, the nice big screen on your Honeycomb tablet is great for viewing web pages……
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One of the killer apps for the iPad is the Safari web browser, which supports full desktop views of web pages on the 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel tablet. But now that Apple has opened the door to competing browsers on its mobile platforms, the folks at Opera plan to introduce a version of Opera Mini for the iPad…
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I’ll be honest. When I heard that Opera Software planned to show off a new version of its web browser designed for Windows tablets, I was a bit skeptical. After all, the whole point of a Windows tablet is that it can run full desktop apps… like the Opera web browser. So why retool the user experience to be more…
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Digital book readers with E Ink displays aren’t really ideal devices for surfing the web. E Ink is known for its slow page refresh rates, which makes dynamic content like video impossible to view. But that doesn’t mean you can’t surf the web on an eBook Reader. After all, a growing number of these portable devices are shipping with WiFi……
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I’ve mentioned a few times that there’s one major problem with the HP Mini-Note’s display: It’s almost too sharp. While the 7 inch 800 x 480 pixel display on the Eee PC is a bit too small to hold full web pages or some applications, the Mini-Note has the opposite problem. It’s 1280 x 768 display is amazingly crisp. But…
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