Web pages would load a lot faster if you didn’t have to deal with the pictures and other graphics, or Javascript and other technologies. That might not be a big problem when you’re surfing the web on a desktop computer with a fast internet connection. But on a mobile device with a slow connection (or a monthly cap on how much data you can use),… Read more »

Nothing eases the transition from desktop to mobile quite like having easy access to your desktop Web browsing profile. Whether you’re using Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Opera, there’s usually a way to keep handy bits like your favorites synced up between your mobile device and your desktop. Firefox, of course, syncs neatly with its diminutive mobile sibling and with the Firefox Home… Read more »

Maxthon has posted an updated version of its Android Web browser over at the xda-developer forums. The default Maxthon themes have been slightly recolored, but it’s below the surface that the most important change has been made. Maxthon now supports pinch-to-zoom, which was one of the few critical pieces of functionality the browser was missing. The browser’s rendering and synchronization engines have gotten a speed… Read more »

While tabs are pretty much standard on desktop web browsers, most mobile web browsers come without support for browser tabs since they take up precious pixels on tiny smartphone screens. But just because the default iOS, Android or webOS browsers don’t support tabs doesn’t mean you can’t find alternate browser that support them if you like. Unfortunately for webOS users, there hasn’t really been a… Read more »

The Windows Phone 7 web browser is alright… but have you ever found yourself wishing your mobile web browser was in… 3D? Yeah, me neither. But the folks at SurfCube have developed a 3D web browser for Windows Phone 7 anyway. It’s not 3D in the sense that it will convert 2-dimensional images and web pages into stereoscopic images. Instead, the user interface is modeled… Read more »

Mozilla has uploaded the latest beta version of Firefox Mobile to the Android Market, making it much easier to download and install the mobile web browser. If you’ve been testing earlier builds of the browser, Mozilla recommends uninstalling them before installing the new version from the Market. Firefox 4 beta for Android also adds better support for Android keyboards, support for uploading files through the… Read more »

Nokia recently took over development of the Symbian platform used by most of the company’s phones, and it looks like the company has plans to step up the pace quite a bit in 2011. Instead of launching one major update every year or two, Computerworld reports that Nokia plans to offer 4 or 5 updates throughout 2011. The first will bring more than 50 tweaks,… Read more »

If you upgrade an iPad to iOS 4.2 this week you’ll notice the difference right away: The software update adds support for multitasking, Game Center, icon folders and much more. But most of those features were already available to iPhone and iPod touch users with iOS 4.1. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any goodies packed into iOS 4.2 for handheld users though. In addition to… Read more »

The folks behind the popular Dolphin Browser HD for Google Android have launched version 4.0. Like its predecessors, Dolphin Browser HD 4.0 supports gesture-based commands, tabbed browsing, and add-ons. But there are also a number of new features and some major bug fixes. The latest version of the browser supports bookmark folders and multiple languages (12 of them for now). It also includes tweaked swiping… Read more »

Apple’s mobile Safari redefined the mobile web browsing experience; iLunascape rethinks the way that we should interact with a web browser on an iPad. Some may be surprised to know that there are third party browsers available for iOS, but there are actually quite a lot of options and iLunascape is just the latest. This tabbed browser moves many controls such as search, bookmarks, tabs… Read more »