Filed under: Internet, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Mobile Minute, BrowsersA year and a half after introducing an innovative web browser for Windows Mobile, Microsoft is killing the project. Back before there was an Opera Mini 4 or an iPhone version of Safari, the Deepfish web browser offered a way to display full desktop views of web pages on a tiny browser, allowing you to zoom in on the area you want to read. The browser was ...

Yet another month passed by and it’s time to check how’s your favorite browser doing. After previous 0.01% gain, Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share. It went down by 0.87%. From 73.02% to 72.15% Firefox keeps growing. This time it grabbed quite big piece of the market share: 0.51% Increased from 19.22% to 19.73% (more…)

The Marriott is now recommending visitors to its mobile website to download and use the Opera Mini browser. Nice! (Via: WapReview.com)

It’s not a perfect, or even moderately good analogy, but I find myself thinking of Opera Mini as a tortoise to Safari Mobile’s hare. The latter is downright suave and spiffy and all that. Opera’s mobile browser, on the other hand, is moving steadily into relative ubiquity. Its rise seems deceptively understated, too. The list of agreements Opera now holds with various mobile manufacturers and network operators is pretty extensive. I won’t treat you to ...

Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report was released today and it offers several insights into the top Opera-running phones in the industry. It shows listings by country and what phones have the most data transfer. When looking at the world as a whole, six out of the top ten phones are from Nokia, yet if you look just at the United States, nine out of the top ten Opera Mini-running phones are Blackberries. The ...

从地震发生后到现在都一直在家里等着拿毕业证，所以用我的黑莓上网也只是用黑莓自带浏览器去看看饭否、Slandr、海内等等，也就没必要开Opera mini了。但经过这一个月的长期使用，我是越来越喜欢黑莓的自带浏览器了，俗话说原配的才是最好的，放在黑莓自带浏览器上也是如此：专门为黑莓设计、与其他功能整合密切、快捷方便等优点让我大有想抛弃Opera mini的想法，今天就介绍一下黑莓自带浏览器的优点以及一些比较不容易发现的小功能。 最先就要从地震那天开始，当时不敢待在建筑物里（特别是晚上），所以只能用自己的黑莓上网，主要也就是通过饭否来了解并发布地震消息。因此我就选择了更轻便的自带浏览器，在12号那天它的表现相当棒，挂在后台不怎么耗电，启动也相当迅速。因为当时网络不畅通，遇到突然掉线时它也可以帮你将这次会话保存到消息列表中（按S键），以便网络恢复后继续访问。那段时间我就一直使用自带浏览器来上网，由于充电不方便，所以BB的续航能力得以体现，更得益于自带浏览器，反正一开机它就挂在后台，不用白不用 我经常说BB是很人性化的，这个看似鸡肋的自带浏览器也是如此。在快捷键操作和人性化方面完全超过了Opera mini，毕竟Opera mini是跨平台的浏览器，只是为黑莓优化而已，所以它的快捷键显得过于繁琐，都要先按#或*键。而BB Browser一般都是一键搞定，比如U键全屏（这个功能在Opera mini里只能在设置留修改），并且非全屏状态下可以看到目前的网络状况和信号强度；再比如添加、访问书签也十分方便，分别是A键和K键搞定，而且管理书签也很方便，可以用轨迹球来任意调整书签顺序，把经常访问的放在前面。以前觉得BB Browser网页渲染太差，翻页也不如Opera mini方便，但某些网页开启Mobile View以后就解决了，而且翻页也可以通过Shift+空格和空格键来进行上下翻页，还可以按X键来查看Page Overview，和Opera mini没多大区别了。而在输入方面更不用说，BB Browser支持直接在输入框中输入文字，并且在跳转网址时可以使用空格来输入"."、Shift+空格来输入"/"，特别方便。当然了，没有快速拨号这样的功能还是有点可惜，但我希望BB Browser能支持将网页快捷方式放置到桌面上，便于快速访问。不过有RIM提供了一些网站的桌面快捷方式，Google很多应用诸如Picasa Web、Google Reader、Google Docs也有这样的快捷方式，而且图标都很漂亮，都还是很不错的。关于自带浏览器快捷键的操作可以见这篇文章。 不止如此，BB Browser也在其他方面超越了Opera mini，比如支持复制网页文字、网页地址和链接地址，支持下载（当然Opera mini 4 Beta中加入了这一功能，但正式版又去掉了），支持嵌入媒体播放，支持网页端的刷新等等。特别是OS 4.5的浏览器有了较大改进，特别是网页渲染方面更接近于桌面浏览器了，所以基本上BB Browser才可以说是最原生最好用的黑莓浏览器。不过在流量控制方面不如Opera mini倒是真的，但由于不需要服务器中转所以换来了极速（也失去了穿墙功能），并且现在的数据服务越来越便宜，这将不再是问题了。但我最喜欢的T-Mobile主题的自带浏览器不能用"B"键启动，比较郁闷。 众所周知黑莓自带浏览器在OS4.2以下是需要激活才能使用的，而OS4.5的测试版似乎也需要SB了，所以我一直都在使用OS4.2没有升级。但是OS4.5的浏览器变得更棒了更好用了，因此我也很期待OS4.5正式发布的那一天，我也会越来越喜欢这个黑莓自己的浏览器。 © Geedr.com - Geek Reader,面向Geek的精选网络读物 | 原文链接 | 10 条评论 me musicing - 给你一个欣赏音乐的理由您可能也会对下面的内容感兴趣BlackBerry Bold 9000 vs iPhone 3G [FIGHT!]BlackBerry OS 4.5.0.42 Release 58 出现了 [WIPE YOUR BB]每日一箴言有益身心 [BE GEEK OR NOT TO BE]eVeek提供的免费黑莓壁纸下载 [BEAUTIFY DESKTOP]名字很奇怪的BlackBerry Javelin & Niagara [BAD-NAME BABY]

Opera Mini’s usage statistics for the First Quarter of 2008 are in and they look promising! Opera’s first “State of the Mobile Web” report is broken down into several sections, one of which covers “Top Trends”. According to the report, social networking sites claim nearly 40% of all traffic worldwide! In some countries, such as the United States, South Africa and Indonesia, the social Web accounts for more than 60% of the traffic. Since the ...

As we’ve noted before, Apple isn’t the only company putting the full Web in your pocket. When Opera released version 4 of its Java-based Opera Mini browser last June, we suggested that features such as ‘desktop view’, tiled zooming, and the use of a proxy server to speed up browsing, meant that it went along way to addressing any iPhone-envy. With the release of version 4.1, Opera isn’t resting on its laurels. New features include ...

Filed under: Internet, Symbian, Palm, Browser Tips, BlackBerry, Mobile Minute Opera Mini 4.1 guided tourUploaded by operasoftware A little over a month after releasing a public beta of Opera Mini 4.1, the Opera team has pushed out the final version of its latest cellphone browser. The newest build is reportedly 50% faster than opera mini 4.0. It also has a handful of new features including the ability to save web paes fr offline viewing, the ...

On Tuesday an Opera developer was asked during an interview if there were any plans to develop the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone later this year when Apple releases the SDK. The developer responded with an enthusiastic “Yes,” but didn’t expand on it. Wired asked Opera for clarification as to whether an Opera Mini for the iPhone will actually be made. Their response was: This is one of those cases of an enthusiastic developer ...