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Filed under: Browsers, Mobile
Opera has just released the second beta of its Mini 5 browser. Amongst other changes and fixes, Android is now supported.
Until now, Android users have been stuck with Opera Mini 4.2, a thoroughly lackluster browser that really doesn’t compete with either the stock WebKit browser or Dolphin. With Mini 5, Opera becomes [...]
Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android
We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla’s location-based social app for Android, and now it’s hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla’s main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time.
If you’re familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the [...]
Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android
A big part of getting a location-based app right is — shocker! — providing an accurate location.
Gowalla is using that principle to get a leg up in its battle with Foursquare for location-based check-in supremacy. Gowalla now uses Skyhook in its Android app, which means it’s providing some of [...]
Filed under: Podcasting, Google, Mobile, Android
Google has released an updated version of podcast manager Google Listen for Android. Like the previous version, Google Listen 1.1 lets you find and subscribe to podcasts from your handset.
But the new version also lets you save your subscription data to the cloud using Google Reader, which makes it [...]
Filed under: Browsers, Mobile, Android
Mozilla isn’t the only company itching to port its web browser to run on Google’s Android operating system. Google announced recently that 60,000 handsets a day are now shipping with Android, and it seems like every day a device maker announces a new Android-based product. So while the WebKit-based browser that [...]
Filed under: Windows Mobile, Mozilla, Browsers, Mobile, Android
The folks at Mozilla have been working on a mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser for much of the past two years. A lot of that work has been focused on Windows Mobile and Nokia’s Maemo platform. But in October, we found out that a version [...]
Filed under: Audio, Podcasting, Freeware, Mobile, Android
When Google sent me a Nexus One phone to review, one of the first applications I installed was the NPR News application. I like to listen to NPR programs while I’m walking around the city, cooking dinner, or working out. And the application was pretty cool, allowing me to [...]
Filed under: iPhone, Mobile, Android
Layar makes augmented reality applications for smartphone platforms including Google Android and the iPhone. What that means is, you can hold up your phone and look through the camera while seeing digital information about the things you’re looking at. Click on the Architecture layer, and you can see information about significant [...]
Filed under: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Commercial, Mobile, Android
Mobile software maker SPB is launching SPB Shell 5.0. Like previous versions, SPB Shell basically replaces your phone’s default user interface with a customizable “shell.” What’s new in version 5.0 is that SPB Shell ain’t just for Windows Mobile anymore. It’s also available for Symbian and Google Android [...]
Filed under: Browsers, Mobile, Android
Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. The browser is one of the fastest around, and one of the only mobile browsers around that can handle Flash and Silverlight content. That’s because Skyfire uses a secret weapon: the browser doesn’t have to do all of [...]
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