Showing posts with label mobile web browser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile web browser. Show all posts

December 15, 2012

Maxthon Mobile Browser for Google Android, Makes browsing the web easier and faster on phones+tablets

Maxthon Mobile Browser for Google Android is a mobile which uses cloud/internet computing to make it simple for users to sync their tabs, bookmarks, text, images, and other files to their Maxthon Cloud account.

Maxthon is one of the fastest, easiest to use, and most stable mobile web browsers which I use on Google Android. Pages load in seconds on my home's wireless internet. The user interface on Maxthon is also easy to use like desktop web browsers which I am used to with an address bar, bookmarks, back, forward, and other features. Maxthon browser also rarely crashes, or freezes in my experience.

Maxthon cloud sync makes it easy for you to pick up where you left off from your Google Android phone or tablet, on another Maxthon web browser running Windows, Mac, and iOS operating system by signing in with your Maxthon account.

You need a Maxthon account at Maxthon's website to use Cloud Sync feature, but you do not need to a Maxthon account to use the non-cloud features of Maxthon to browse the web.

With Maxthon, you can push  text, images, websites/links and tabs from your Maxthon account on Google Android to Mac, Android and Windows operating systems which also have Maxthon installed on it

Maxthon ha cloud download which let you upload files to your Maxthon "My Cloud" account to backup up to 10GB of data from any device with Maxthon web browser on it.

Maxthon also has a full screen mode which has a fan-menu which make it easy to switch tabs by using touch gestures. The full screen mode also uses all your screen's space to view a website in full screen mode.

The homepage for Maxthon is useful because you can add speed dial bookmarks to open up websites with a tap of a finger on an icon. You can also setup Maxthon to open web apps, apps, and add-ons from the new tabs, or homepage.

The add-ons like Task killer, RSS reader, screenshot, file manager for Maxthon are also useful when you installed them from Google Play.

App Center in Maxthon makes finding web apps and content online easy.

You can also use touch gestures in Maxthon to close, open, switch, and restore tabs, or create your own gestures.

Reading in Maxthon is faster because it preloads pages, so you do not have to wait for pages to load. There is also night mode in Maxthon which makes your web browser easier to read in low light rooms, and it is easy to adjust the brightness in Maxthon for more comfortable reading in bright rooms.

Reader Mode adjust the font, and remove objects like widgets on a website to make reading websites easier.

There is a mode in Maxthon called WAP mode which makes downloading websites faster by using the low bandwidth WAP version of the website. It is easy to switch between the regular version and WAP version of a website in Maxthon in Maxthon's settings.

The Maxthon community also is very active with a forum, a lot of Facebook fans, and blog, so finding help on how to use Maxthon browser, or just to talk about it is simple.

December 9, 2012

Boat Browser for Google Android, Fast Simple Web Browser





Boat Browser is a fast and light Mobile Web Browser for Android . Page loading, scrolling, zooming in and out, and going back and forward is fast and smooth in Boat Browser. It also does not slow down your device when it is running in the background because it is more light weight then other web browsers like Firefox for Android.

You can also export, save, and import bookmarks in and out of Boat Browser.

Boat Browser is also the most stable web browser which I ever use with very few force closes, freezes, and crashes compared to other web browsers I used in the past.

It has all the features which most mobile web users need like speed dial bookmarks in the new tabs page, back, forward, and address bar, autofill, Flash support, and multi-tab viewing.

If your tablet or phone has volume buttons, you can set your volume button to scroll up and down a page when you use them in Boat Browser to make browsing more convenient and fast. 

In my experience, Boat Browser is fast and easy to use, and it also supports voice commands by using Google Voice. It has multi-touch support like pinch to zoom to zoom into a page.

Boat Browser also comes with a few colored theme to personalize the color of the web browser, and you can install add-ons from Google Play to add more features to Boat Browser. Boat Browser also has a night mode which makes a website dark to make it easier to read at night, or in low light conditions.

You can also use Boat Browser to take screenshots of a website, and add add-ons to save sites as PDF and other file formats.

It is also easy to empty your web history and cache files in Boat Browser from the settings menu, or when you press exit in the menu.

Boat Browser is only 2MB in size, so it does not take up much space on your Android phone or tablet.

December 7, 2012

UC Web Browser slim, fast, simple web browser for Google Android

UC Web Browser is a free web browser for Google Android, and I have been very happy with UC because there are a lot of features, it is easy to use, and it is fast.

The Startup times for UC web browser is quick. It only takes a few seconds to start up UC Browser in Android. UC Browser compresses your webpages, so images and websites load faster, and save you money by not going over your data cap for your cell phone plan if you have one. I notice even on slower Android devices like the Kobo Vox, websites load pretty fast, scroll, and zoom in and out pretty fast. It is also easy to change the default search engine to another search engine like Bing, Yahoo, or Duck Duck Go if you prefer to use a different search engine provider. The new tabs page let you set speed dial bookmarks to make visiting your favorite websites faster by clicking on a bookmark site in the new tabs page, or clicking on the popular button on new tabs. UC also comes with a lot of useful bookmarks like Facebook, Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Craigslist, and a lot more in the new tabs, and popular section of the web browser. I find the bundled bookmarks pretty helpful because it saves me time by not having to manually type them into the address bar to bookmark since it is already included. You can also set the brightness of the screen to be 5% or higher in UC's settings to save you battery life, and make it more convenient for you to change the brightness by just going to the US settings.

The User interface is similar to a desktop browser with an address bar, back, forward, bookmarks, new tabs, stop, Autofill, Download manager, RSS News Reader and other buttons, and features found on a traditional browser for desktops, so learning how to use it is simple. You can also use voice commands for Smartphones, and if your tablet has a microphone.

I also like that UC goes into full screen mode until I press the menu button, so the address bar, menu bar, and other things are not taking up screen space on my screen when I do not need to use them. Scrolling and zooming in in UC is also very fast and smooth in my experience.

Switching between, opening  and closing tabs is also easy in UC Web Browser by just clicking on the tabs buttons, or using finger swipe gestures.

There is also a night mode in UC Web browser for improve night reading in low light condition. The night mode dims the screen brightness, and change the background color of US Web browser to Black, and the font color to a light blue color to make night reading more easier.

It is also easy to exit the web browser by clicking the menu button, and clicking exit. You can also set UC Browser to clear your temporary internet files after you exit, or clear your temp. files in the settings.

If UC Web browser crash, or you turned off your phone or tablet, and did not exit UC browser,  UC browser ask you if you want to restore your previously open tabs/websites.

UC Web browser is one of the fastest, easiest, and feature rich third-party web browser for Google Android which I used on Android.

January 19, 2012

Web Browsing + Wireless Wifi Experience on the Kobo Vox Color eReader

The default web browser on the Kobo Vox Color eReader is the Google Android Gingerbread web browser which is pretty good for visiting mobile sites. The 800MHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 8GB storage, and 802.11N Wifi adapter found on the Vox is great for browsing most websites online quickly, and download files online to latter transfer to your laptop, or desktop by using the Vox's USB transfer cable. The 7 inch screen, thin case and light weight of the Vox makes it great for carrying around in a bag or purse. I also notice it is easy to read text on the browser because of the sharp screen and bright back light. The 7 inch screen is big enough to display most popular websites like YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, and Twitter without the need to zoom in or scroll a lot. The Vox can play YouTube and DailyMotion videos without the Adobe Flash Player add-on if you use the mobile version of Youtube at m.youtube.com . Videos will be played in Full Screen High Quality by default in YouTube mobile.



The Kobo Vox also comes with the bookmarks with the mobile version of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, so easily accessing the mobile version of popular social networks are simple.

Rdio, PressReader, and Globe2Go also comes bundled with the Vox, so you can listen to music, read magazines, and newspapers streamed to you from the internet easily.

The WiFi performance of the Kobo Vox is also very good. The Kobo Vox connects a lot faster to my older Wireless router which uses 802.11G in a few seconds which is a lor faster then my laptop which sometimes take minutes to connect to WiFi.



The Vox also features a 802.11N Wireless wi-fi adapter which means it can detect wireless networks which are farther a way, and have a better range for the Wireless signal. 802.11N can achieve speeds of 300 megabits per second or higher, and longer range. This means if your Wireless router also has 802.11N your speed and range would be very fast and long. But, If you still use a 802.11G router then the speed and range will still be good, but not as good as a N router.

When I use the Vox, it never disconnects me from my home router while I use it.

Downloading eBooks, .APK installer files for android, and media files are also pretty fast.