Opera has launched a new installment of its Opera Mini browser, which is now at version 4.5 for feature phones with limited capabilities and at version 7.5 for slightly better phones. The new features include a privacy mode among numerous other improvements.
Statistics from NetMarketShare suggest that Chrome is steadily gaining ground as a popular mobile browser, at least among the Android users while Safari has lost a little bit of it pie although it still leads others by a wide margin. Other browsers like the Android default browser and Opera Mini have had only minor fluctuations in their share.
Aidan Quilligan, managing director of Accenture Embedded Software Services, in this post discusses the myths and misconceptions surrounding the use of native mobile apps versus apps developed for the mobile Web.
