Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta

Last week, Opera announced the latest beta version of their Mobile browser on the Windows Mobile platform. The Dev.Opera site has a nice breakdown of the latest features:

New rendering engine: Opera Mobile 9.7 uses our Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which gives improved speed, 100/100 on the Acid 3 test, and many new standards support

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Windows Mobile Browsing Updates

Two of the more full-featured mobile web browsers have offered upgrades recently. I’m not sure which has the edge and think both are worth a look if you’re running a supported device.

Today the Opera folks announced an update for Opera Mobile beta – now with Opera Widgets support. I’ve just started to play around with

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Randoming

Regarding VirtuaWin (last mention): I’m still using VirtuaWin daily on my XP laptop. This weekend I realized it works for Vista too so I now have it running on my home desktop as well.

This is the first time I’ve stuck with a virtual desktop product for windows for this long. With the addition of the

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Skyfire and Opera Mobile Browsers

Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.

skyfire rocks video

Skyfire is an alternative mobile browser that does an incredible job displaying

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Mogul Flash – Win Mo 6.1 Upgrade and New Toys

While I don’t always love the folks at Sprint (for instance, see this old post) I do have to admit that I sure am happy with how they’ve been supporting my HTC Mogul phone since I bought it last fall. The updates have been coming along at a reasonable rate and each offers new features.

For

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