The iPhone browser is awesome and to make surfing really quick the keyboard (when typing in the mobile safari address bar) shows a .com shortcut button. But the www is not all about .com. There are other extensions that you would use regularly.
So here is the trick. Just hold down the .com button a little [...]
by Ankur on February 15, 2009
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Browsing on the iPhone is a delight. And the effect was such that the 1st gen iPhone alone managed to give Safari a 64% boost. And with the AppStore backed iPhone 3G and iPod Touch now out in millions Apple now commands over 50% of internet traffic from smartphone / handhelds.
The iPhone OS now represents [...]
A less know iPhone trick in iPhone’s mobile safari is the option to click on any phone number appearing on the safari webpage to dial it. While this is common in most smartphones for phone numbers in SMS messages, the iPhone allows this inside Safari!
So the next time you want to dial a phone [...]
Copy and paste of text has always been a big drawback in the iPhone. Though now there are softwares like CopiercIN which allow copy/paste of text within the iPhone from sms to mail to notes etc. There was always one thing missing that was copy text from safari. Well not anymore guys. Pastebud allows you [...]
by Ankur on December 5, 2008
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Internet on the iPhone is serious. For me its the best mobile internet experience. Google has been bullish on the iPhone since day 1, with loads of services specially optimized for the iPhone. And here comes another one to the list of products optimised for the iPhone, this time from Yahoo: Flickr!
m.flickr.com has been specially [...]
How to Play Flash Videos on iPhone Safari?
iMobileCinema solves one of the biggest problems with the iPhone. It allows you to play Flash Videos on Safari. It works on iPhone firmware V1.x and is expected soon for 2.x aka iPhone 3G.
The program is actually a Safari plug-in that breaks Flash video out of the page [...]
Opera Mini as we know is the most popular and probably the best mobile browser. With compression upto 85% OperaMini manages to be a swift, stable and fast mobile browser. Many popular handset manufactures bundle Opera by default on their handsets. Such is the might of the Opera Mini!
But it takes more than just a [...]
by Ankur on October 17, 2008
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We read a few days back that the Motorola Razr still beats the iPhone in numbers, and here is another interesting fact. Though the Motorola V3 Razr with its limited web capabilities manages to hold a better mobile web usage market share than the Apple iPhone!
The Motorola Razr V3, Krzr Kc1, W386, and Z6m, and [...]
by Ankur on October 13, 2008
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Google surely loves the Apple iPhone. Google Mail, Reader, MAPS … etc all has been customized / integrated to the iPhone quite well. And now Google has started beta testing for Ads specially targetted to users using full browser enabled mobile devices like the iPhone.
Apparently a few handpicked advertisers on Google network are testing Ads [...]
So how many times has it happened that multitasking on the iPhone has caused you to loose your data on the safari browser?
One of the major drawbacks on the iPhone Safari is the cookie forgetting problem, this also affected the performance of the recently launched GTalk for the iPhone. But with iRemember things will change. [...]
by tassavur on March 30, 2008
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iPhone rumors will never stop to flow, this time BGR is reporting that the iPhone Firmware 2.0 (yeah the one with the SDK effect) will support YouTube on Safari using a plugin!
This will allow us to run YouTube from Safari itself without opening a separate application. Although we don’t have any reason to contradict BGR’s [...]
by Ankur on March 24, 2008
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Safari is no doubt the most popular Internet Browser on mobile! And here are some more official words cementing the fact. According to StatCounter Safari usage on the iPhone has increased by 64% since December 07.
So the iPhone now hold 0.08% of the Global Internet Browser market (up from 0.03% some time back). And in [...]