Category Archives: mobile browsers
7 Indian mobile OEMs sign with Opera for Android
Opera Mini to be pre-installed on Android phones, phablets and tablets
Seven Indian mobile OEMs have signed with Opera to preinstall the Opera Mini mobile web browser on upcoming Android handsets, phablets and tablets. The Mini browser will appear on all Android devices by Celkon, Karbonn, Lava and Intex plus it will also be preinstalled on select Android devices by Fly and Zen along with HCL ME tablets. India is, of course, one of the fastest growing countries for adoption of mobile Internet. It also continues to be home to the largest number of Opera Mini users in the world. Continue reading
Chrome may come to dominate mobile browsers
Rating: We may be witnessing the rise of Chrome as the mobile Browser
According to mobile data analysis experts, 51degrees.mobi, over the last six months, Google’s Chrome mobile has started to take chunks out of the native Android browser’s user base. With Google announcing its new rendering engine Blink l earlier this week, the company’s ‘Chart of the [...]
Opera report highlights cost of data roaming
Rating: Its tables provide hard stats for data in 9 countries
Roaming charges are making all the headlines at the moment. There are apocryphal tales of consumers spending two weeks data roaming abroad and getting a bill that takes two months to pay off. Just loading your own Facebook home page ten times can cost more than $50.00 – depending on home country and operator plan, of course. So Opera Software decided to take a close look at data roaming charges in the latest (May 2012) edition of its State of the Mobile Web Report. One of the report’s more surprising findings was that mobile users in two of the most advanced telecom nations on the world- Japan and the United Sates, are among those charged the most for data roaming. Naturally, the report shows how much you would save if you switch over to Opera’s Mini browser. Continue reading
Opera Mini browser finally makes it onto BlackBerry App World
Rating: Will it work if BlackBerry crashes again we wonder?
Although it has actually been compatible with the BlackBerry OS for some years, the Opera Mini browser has finally made it onto the BlackBerry App World app store. Savvy BlackBerry users have been saving money on their data plans by downloading it manually from http:/m.opera.com. Having it made easily accessible on the official BlackBerry App World should ensure much wider usage if nothing else than the fact that consumers trust the official download sites for their brand of mobile OS. You have to wonder why it has taken so long to happen? Perhaps RIM is waking up to harsh commercial realities? Continue reading
Wikitude wins RIM gong for AR browser
Rating: Winner of ‘Going social: Best BBM Connected Application’ award’
The Wikitude World Browser has just won the award for Going social: Best BBM Connected Application’ award for Wikitude. The company won the award because its World Browser contains hundreds of different examples of how augmented reality (AR) can enrich location-based content. Besides travel sights and mobile coupons, the app BBM in Augmented Reality enables you to find your friends and chat while out and about. Continue reading
HTML5 will be a key differentiator in the smartphone OS war
Rating: Latest findings from ABI Research
ABI Research has just published its findings on the state of HTML5 browser penetration in the mobile phone/tablet sector. It has calculated that although there were only 109 million devices with HTML5 browsers last year [2010], by 2016, more than 2.1 billion mobile devices. That’s some leapt. “HTML5 adoption is going to accelerate because it will be a key differentiator in the smartphone OS war,” suggests Mark Beccue, a senior analyst with ABI Research. And Apple (with the iPhone) will not only be the key driver of HTML5 but the primary benefactor as well, Beccue reckons. Continue reading
Only local phones compete with Nokia in India
Opera has released its monthly State of the Mobile Web report – and one of the many little gems within it highlights one of the steadily growing problems of Nokia in the Indian market: homegrown devices.
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BOLT makes mobile email available to 500,000,000 phones in Asia
Best known in mobile for creating the BOLT browser, Bitstream Inc. has announced that it will be providing an unnamed mobile content and services provider in Asia with mobile email services. Continue reading
Sencha says 2011 is Year of HTML5
Rating: Recruiting mobile web engineers fast
Things have suddenly taken off for Silicon Valley HTML5 specialist – Sencha. It has been hiring software engineers so fast – particularly for its mobile web products – that it’s had to move to Redwood City. It has also secured a Sequoia-led VC funding of $14 million. Crucially it has developed web apps for the latest touchscreen devices including Android and RIM/ BlackBerry as well as Apple. Sencha’s tools are even spawning companies such as ModusCreate dedicated to creating web apps using HTML5 tools. Continue reading
Mobile browser BOLT hits 20 million installations
Locked in an eternal struggle, once again the two most popular mobile-only web browsers in the world have released news within a day of one another. After Skyfire’s somewhat vague announcement yesterday for an Android update at some point in the future, Bitstream has announced it has reached 20 million installations around the world for it’s mobile browser, BOLT. Continue reading
mHealth: track your heart health with web app
It was predicted earlier this year that the main sales houses of mHealth apps will be healthcare professionals. Today sees the launch of an application supporting that – the Prairie Heart Institute of Illinois (PHII) performs more cardiovascular procedures than anywhere else in the State, and it now has it’s own application. Continue reading
Advertisers hijacking browser recognition technology says WSJ
Rating: Nokia and RIM named as culprits
Technology originally introduced to detect the make and model of a mobile phone in order to optimise the mobile web browsing experience is now been hi-jacked by advertisers, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) here. Better still, two of these advertisers are mobile phone producers – Nokia and RIM, the WSJ claims. Jumptap is also name as one the mobile network advertising aggregators which is participating in such practices. Apparently the industry jargon for such a tactic is ‘intercept campaigning’. Others might describe the practice as dirty tricks. Continue reading
Google regains Opera’s No.1 web site slot
Rating: Nigeria overtakes USA in number of users
Based on data collected from its 80 million Opera Mini browser users around the world, the Norwegian software house has discovered that Google once again tops its State of the Mobile Web chart for 2010. In 2009, Facebook held the top slot but Google has returned to claim the Number One position. What Opera conveniently forgets to mention is that the Russians have four out of the top ten charts. Don’t tell our American friends that the Ruskies are winning. Continue reading
Effortel creates ad funded data access service for InMobile
Effortel, the mobile virtual operator and enabler today announced FreeM for the Polish MVNO, InMobile. FreeM claimed (!) to be the first subscription free, ad-funded mobile service that gives the users free data access to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in exchange for the end user viewing short full screen advertisements on their mobiles.
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Mobile advertising and marketing news: barcodes, apps and browsers
Here is today’s mobile marketing and advertising round-up, from GoMo News! Mobile barcodes get a new launch; mobile search is driving mobile advertising; younger consumers favor apps over browsers; and more… Continue reading
