We recently put the new Opera beta 10 up for review. Check out some of the cool new features and the great new UI.

Full Review : Opera 10 Beta – Windows Mobile App Review

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When I hear of browsers on Windows Mobile , the names that come to my mind are Skyfire and Opera. Dorothy and Fennec are possible future contenders to this list.

Good news is Skyfire hits version 1.1, do I hear you asking whats new ?

• Improved page load times. For sites that take a long time to load, we updated our algorithm to bring you the content much quicker.
• Improved scrolling and zooming on Symbian. This is a much faster and smoother experience now.
• Improved reconnect. Skyfire will show clearly when you can start interacting with the web page in case it previously timed out and disconnected (to save battery life).
• WML support. If you are browsing to mobile sites that use the old mobile WML markup, you can now view the content.
• Improved mobile website support. Mobile.* websites are now rendered automatically as mobile with the exception of mobile.yahoo.com since it is a PC site.
• Page up/down navigation via short-key: You can use now ‘2’ and ‘8’ to easily navigate one page up or down. Great for reading articles. Now the short-key for invoking the Superbar is ‘*’. Please note that on some devices with a non-standard keyboard layout, short-keys may behave differently since this is phone specific.
• Updated Plug-ins: For Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime we have the newest versions to give you more compatibility with more sites.

[ via MoDaCo ]

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A new version of Skyfire is available now. With skyfire on your phone, you can watch any video, connect with friends, listen to music, shop, and browse the web using the full-featured PC versions of your favorite websites. With Skyfire, mobile browsing just works – speedy page loads, full video, images and audio.

What’s new in this 1.0 update?
* Reduced Memory footprint. We reduced the memory footprint of Skyfire for both Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. This should help folks reporting issues on memory constrained devices.

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According to gizmodo.com the new Samsung JET is said to have a new in house developed browser called Dolphin.

Features of this new browser include

• easy, super fast surfing
• multi-window browsing to surf several web pages simultaneously – up to five pages at any one time.
• book marking widget to save your favourite websites
• the multiple background download
• multi-purpose address field
• ad-blocker
• etc

And now the all important question , Will us Windows Mobile Users get this browser on the Windows Mobile flavored devices from Samsung? Would you want the Dolphin on your Windows Mobile ?

Opera announced its pathbreaking Turbo Technology fitted release version 9.7 last week. Although new in many aspects nevertheless it still has problem as far as changing its skin & color is concern.

Thanks to a smart geek at XDA Papo, we could able get a bit of change as far as the color of Opera is concern.

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