Sometimes one of the best things that someone who really loves gadgets can do to improve how they use their gadgets is to get an upgrade for them. That's exactly what you can do by downloading a web browser for your mobile phone. While smart phones have been able to browse the web all along, they're really in a different class than the normal mobile phones. Smart phones have larger screens, more keys for more possibilities of communicating using text messaging or email. The screens are really what make smart phones better than normal mobile phones for browsing the Internet because they make it easier to see text and various kinds of graphics. Of course there are a number of secondary features that make surfing the Internet and sending text messages and emails easier. As mentioned above, most smart phones have much more sophisticated keypads (or in the case of some of the newer ones like Apple's iPhone and the Prada phone, a touch screen) that make it easier to type messages for either text messaging or email. But smart phones are also better connected to the Internet with their ability to take advantage of the G3 network.
By contrast the smaller screens of mobile phones and the more limited keypad make them less suited for surfing the Internet. The smaller screen makes it more difficult to read text or look at the details of a picture. Those limitations aside, it is possible to surf the Internet on a normal mobile phone and one thing that helps a lot with that is having a good Web browser that's designed to work on a mobile phone. This is exactly what the new Opera Mini 3.0 web browser does for mobile phones. In fact, it may even put a mobile phone on par for web browsing with a smart phone.
The Opera Mini 3.0 isn't the first web browser designed to be used on a mobile phone (there's an Opera Mini 2.0 out there as well), but it does show marked improvements over its predecessor. For example, the Opera Mini 3.0 will support RSS feeds and secure web pages. (That last one is a good feature for anyone who would like to shop over a mobile phone!) The Opera Mini 3.0 also provides better support for graphics than the Opera Mini 2.0 did, but carries over many features from the 2.0 version like page rendering and a bookmark management system.
Like any other piece of software that allows something to perform a function that it's not really designed for, the Opera Mini 3.0 does have some quirks. For example, it doesn't always download the special style sheets that are intended to maximize the chances of having a web page display correctly on a mobile phone. And, although the Opera Mini 3.0 does support RSS feeds, it doesn't necessarily do that consistently. Another disadvantage comes from the fact that the Opera Mini 3.0 doesn't have tabbed browsing.
Considering the fact that the Opera Mini 3.0 is free and still offers a radical improvement over past web browsers for mobile phones, it's definitely worth taking a good look at.
A pioneer in technology reporting, Julia Hall has published articles about the latest digital devices and gadgets for over ten years. After graduating from MIT with a degree in electrical engineering, Julia turned down huge salaries from some of the most recognized fortune 500 companies in the world to pursue her dream of becoming a leading consumer advocate. Julia uses his expertise to cut through the too good to be true deals offered by high tech companies to reveal the real steals and the real duds that we're bombarded with daily. If you enjoy staying on the cutting edge of technology, whether for business or pleasure, but find yourself occasionally confused by the overwhelming and convoluted information out there let Julia show you the way.
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