Tag Archives: web browser

Opera Mini 5.0.2 for iPhone: now usable

by on May 13th, 2010 at 8:42 am

Here’s my public service announcement for the day: after having played with the app for a little while now, I do hereby proclaim Opera Mini to be a heck of a lot more usable than before — and not just with mobile websites. The latest version, 5.0.2, is a lot …

The skinny on Opera Mini for iPhone

by on April 13th, 2010 at 4:19 pm

[Update: our fellow iPhone fans over at Macgasm have made a good comparison video of Safari and Opera Mini. Opera's definitely faster in that test and seems to handle sites like the NYtimes quite well, but the fact that site supporti so erratic (IGN.com looks terrible) still makes Safari the …

Mercury Browser gets another chance [iPhone App Update]

by on January 19th, 2010 at 11:00 am

GONE! After a lackluster review and several scathing comments in the App store, the developer of Mercury Browser 2.0 responded with another update (Mercury Browser Lite version 2.1) that restored some of the options I preferred in version 1. Gone is the splash screen that many found as an annoying …

Gmail Push and Mercury Browser for iPhone updated: a Hit and Miss [iPhone App Updates]

by on January 12th, 2010 at 4:10 pm

Recently iLegendSoft updated two apps that I have recently reviewed “ Gmail Push and their Mercury Browser. Of those two, one is a worthy upgrade, and the other I had deleted before the day was over so I could reinstall the older version. Share this:

3rd Party Web Browsers Hit App Store

by on January 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Now this is something I didn’t think we’d see — Apple has begun approving third party web browsers for use on the iPhone/iPod Touch. Several web browsing applications have recently appeared in the App Store, and some of the original submission dates go as far back as October, suggesting this …