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After the banning of IMEI-less phones last December, India’s government has now decreed the banning of all phones produced by China-based companies.
According to Global Telecom Business, the Indian government is concerned about the fact that phones from China could come with “spyware or malware that offers intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom networks in India” – and that’s the reason for the ban.
Manufacturers like ZTE and Huawei, which used to sell lots of phones across India, will certainly be affected by the decision.
Indian telecom operators are also put in a difficult situation, as many of them have ordered phones from Chinese manufacturers and now they have to search for other suppliers. On the other hand, India-based phone makers should be quite happy about all this.
Companies like Nokia, Samsung, LG and Motorola may see a rise in sales across India following the banning of Chinese handsets. Ironically, lots of the phones that come under these big brands are actually manufactured in China.
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If you’re fans of Opera Mobile, you’ll think again before choosing this mobile browser over Skyfire, a pretty good rival in this segment. In the video below you can see Skyfire 1.5 going head to head against Opera Mobile 10:
Opera Mobile 10 uses the Speed Dial system, showing a series of thumbnails with quickly accessible links, right from the start page, while Skyfire 1.5 will only show a list of quick links from its main screen. You’ll access the Settings menu both on Opera and Skyfire, as the last option of the bottom row, with the first browser providing the “Advanced” option.
Skyfire has a simple one page Settings menu and if we’re talking about similarities, know that the virtual keyboards on both browsers have some resemblances. Moving on to the real duel, the video above shows a comparison between the speed of Skyfire 1.5 and Opera Mobile 10, both loading the careace.net site.
As you can see, Skyfire loads the site 5 seconds faster than its rival and, as a difference between the two, we can notice that Skyfire doesn’t come with a “forward” option for its web pages, sticking with “back”, but also adding a zoom in/out function at the bottom of the screen.
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Tags: browser comparison, features, Opera Mobile 10, Skyfire 1.5, video comparison
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As you might already know, the Opera Mobile 10 browser has been released in its Android version and with this occasion, Opera has been provided as a cross-platform UI and development platform for most handsets. This includes device that run Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android, but also feature phones running S40 and more.
Opera mentions that its widget-based app environment will decrease the development costs, while the time it takes for software to reach the market will also be decreased. The user experience will be improved and the resulting UI will be more attractive, among other features.
The idea of a browser-based UI was approached by the folks of Access before, through the Netfront browser, but it’s only now that the concept gets developed and seems feasible. OEMs and carriers will be pleased with the news, specially thanks to the lowered costs, but we’re really worried about the lack of user-friendliness and lag of the resulting interface.
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Tags: cross platform UI, development framework, Opera Mobile, widget environment
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Opera launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones.
With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones.
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Opera Mobile is becoming more and more the default choice of people using Windows Mobile. This also applies to the Gigabyte GSmart S1200 handset, that now uses Opera Mobile 9.5 to power the “Hami” widget services and also provide access to local search engines, news, weather, stocks and more.
GSmart S1200 provides a pretty neat browsing experience and it would be a pity not to harness it by using Opera Mobile. Opera is also known for developing cool widgets for mobile phones and it should seamlessly integrated CHT’s Hami services, allowing users to socialize, search and have fun on the web.
CHT (Chunghwa Telecom) is a company based in Taiwan, that developed the Hami widget service, providing local, online info and in the future it will also include paid services, like e-book stores. For now, Hami is supported on the iPhone, Android and WinMo devices. Keep in mind that new shipment of GSmart S1200 will come with a preinstalled version of Opera Mobile 9.5.
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Tags: Chunghwa Telecom, Gigabyte GSmart S1200, Hami, Opera Mobile 9.5, widget service
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Opera has just announced the launch of the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, both available for free. The new versions allow users to enjoy desktop features like Opera Link and the Download Manager on their mobile devices.
Opera Link allows users to sync personal browser settings with the desktop version of Opera, plus all their connected devices, as well. Thus, Speed Dial, search engines and bookmarks will always be accessible. Download Manager will allow better control and extra speed for downloads on mobile phones.
The second beta release of both Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 brings a more polished look of the software, visual bookmarks (Speed Dial), tabbed browsing and more. With this evolution, Opera hopes to unify all products across all supported platforms. Opera Mini is proving to be a popular option, since almost 40 million people used the browser in October, according to official stats.
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Tags: download manager, Opera Link, Opera Mini 5, Opera Mobile 10, second beta
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It took an awfully long time for it to come to market, but today Verizon Wireless has begun selling the Samsung Omnia II in time for the busy Christmas shopping season. Verizon’s second Windows Mobile 6.5 device after the HTC Imagio, the Omnia II sports a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal memory expandable via microSD plus standard smartphone features like Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and EV-DO Rev. A. connectivity. Of course the Omnia II lacks the Imagio’s global roaming functionality, but honestly, after taking a look at that 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED display, it’s pretty hard to think about anything else. That is unless you can’t afford the $199.99 2-year contract price.
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You can find out all there is to know about Opera Mobile 10, available as a beta version for Windows Mobile, from the presentation video below. We’re dealing with an intuitive browser that handles touchscreen handsets perfectly:
Opera Mobile 10 uses an intuitive and comfy interface, with a very cool Speed Dial feature, allowing the user to access his favorite sites with a single click. The navigational bar from the lower side of the screen includes the options “Back”, “Forward”, “Reload”, “Tabs” and “Tools”, with the last one also allowing the user to access more options, like “Bookmarks”, “History”, “Find in page” and “Settings”.
The browser uses visual tabs, in order to manage the website you’ve already visited, with the advantage of seeing them as small thumbnails/previews. Opera Mobile 10 also provides support for zooming in, kinetic scrolling and it also includes Opera Turbo, that’ll save cash for people with expensive data plans, by compressing data.
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Tags: beta, Opera Mobile 10, Opera Turbo, presentation video, Speed Dial
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