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Showing posts with label Web Browser. Show all posts

AAQR: Wikitude Enhanced Reality Browser

Wikitude started off as just a web browser, but it evolved into much more... a competitor to Layar, the "augmented reality" browser.

Consider the picture on the right. While looking through your phone's camera, you see the various icons OVERLAID on top of whatever you see. In the picture, the guy was looking for coffee.

Pretty cool, eh? This is not a joke. By using your phone's GPS, Camera, AND orientation sensor, you indeed can add to your reality.

And it's free.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/wikitude-world-browser/com.wikitude

(also check out Layar
http://www.appbrain.com/app/layar/com.layar )
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AAQR: Skyfire 4 browser (free)

Skyfire has a very neat trick when it came out: it intercepts the various Flash Videos on webpages, transcodes them, then feed it back to you. As such, it is the first browser EVER on Android to play Flash Video, even before Flash became available for Android.

Obviously, this ain't cheap. Videos have to be downloaded, transcribed, then optimized and sent down to you. This cost money. So Skyfire is free... but the video optimization thing cost $$$. You get to try it for 3 days, and that's it. After that, pay $2.99 to unlock.

Skyfire, fortunately, is a very decent browser that has a couple OTHER tricks... Twitter and Facebook Integration, for example, plus RSS Feed Reader built-in, and better toolbar than ever. Is it enough to get you to switch? I don't know. But at least, try it. You may never go back.

Download Skyfire through Appbrain
http://www.appbrain.com/app/skyfire-web-browser-4-0/com.skyfire.browser (Free, $2.99 for video unlock)


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AAQR: Maxthon Browser (free)

Maxthon Browser
screenshot via Appbrain
Maxthon for Windows started out as "MyIE2", a customized version of Internet Explorer. Now Maxthon is a genuine dual engine Trident (Internet Explorer) and Webkit (Chrome) browser that can automatically sense and choose the appropriate engine for optimal display of the content. In late 2010 they launched Maxthon Mobile Browser (for Android). Is it any good? Sort of.

At 2MB, this browser is not exactly lightweight, but speed is decent. In practice it doesn't seem any different from say, Miren or Dolphin (not Dolphin Mini). It has tabs, themes, and all the major features. On the other hand, it just doesn't "feel" that different from any other browser. Gestures are available in Dolphin (though it's arguable that the implementation here is better). Switch WAP/WWW is just changing user agent, and that was in Skyfire for a long time. Download manager seem to be the only unique feature.

I guess you can try it. They have a tablet version but no indicatio on what's special about it.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/maxthon-mobile-browser/com.mx.browser
http://www.appbrain.com/app/maxthon-mobile-for-10-tablet/com.mx.browser.tablet
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AAQR: Angel Browser (free)

Angel Browser
Screenshot via Appbrain
Angel Browser is the successor to a Japanese Android browser called Galapagos, and it's very impressive for what it can accomplish with the regular Webkit engine, and under 1 MB in APK size.

The menu items are mostly hidden and revealed when you tap the menu button, and ALL of the major features like switch user-agent, bookmarks, zoom, speed-dial, tab browsing, and more are all here. The menu buttons are also configurable (pick the functions you want shown).

The more I use this browser the more I like it. I'm not quite sure I want to switch just yet, but it's a very viable alternative to the major choices.

NOTE: this menu is in Japanese, but the version you download is in English, really.

Rating: try it!

http://www.appbrain.com/app/angel-browser/net.adgjm.angel
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