We saw it coming, but Chrome for Android is the biggest news for Google’s mobile platform this year. It signals that Android will be around for a long time, but we might also look back on today as the day that native operating systems began to die and web operating systems started to take over.
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We already know Microsoft makes more money from Android phones (thanks to patent licensing deals) than their own Windows Phone OS, but the Redmond-based company is taking the way they use Android to the next level today. They’re giving Android users a taste of WP7 without ever having to leave the comfort of ... Read More »
September of 2008 was a pretty busy month for Google. The company released, not one, but two very important products in that month: Android and Chrome. The former was supposed to unify the mobile world under one platform, while the latter’s job was to push the web forward. Today, Android owns most of the smartphone ... Read More »
One of the biggest unanswered questions in the Android development world is “where’s Chrome?” Google has made huge strides in web development attached to the Chrome name, some of which Android’s “Browser” has not been a part. Thanks to a bonafide Android port of Chromium, that’s about to change.
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Today must be the day for major app launches, or something. Mozilla just officially dropped Firefox for Android in the Market, available for download now.
The mobile version of Firefox includes a lot of the bells and whistles we know from the desktop version, like tabbed browsing, add-ons, themes, and bookmark ... Read More »
Instead of rushing out a written review, we thought it’d be fun to do some incremental videos highlighting the main features and interesting bits we’d discovered in our daily use of the Tab.
We’re going to start with what we seem to be using this thing for the most: browsing the web. Check out the ... Read More »
Today Mozilla announced the new Firefox 4 Beta for mobile devices which is now available to download for Android. Based on our site analytics, Google’s Chrome browser is the top choice for our readers, but Firefox comes in at a close 2nd so I’m sure many will want to check this out.
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With an open ecosystem and unrestricted market, consumers always benefit by having the option to choose which product they want to use. One of the best examples of this is the number of web browsers available to consumers on the Android Market. Yes, many of them have unique features that give each of them a ... Read More »
Back in March, Opera released a beta version of their Opera Mini browser for the Android platform. I like several thousand other Android users, was very eager to try Opera out to see how it stacked up against the stock browser and other browser alternatives. Though webpages seemed to load very quickly in ... Read More »
Supports Flash web video with patent-pending adaptive streaming technology.
