After having talked about the mobile browser Skyfire, now it’s available to be downloaded. So far it works on Windows Mobile (5, 6, and 6.1) and Symbian S60 (3rd edition), and only in these countries: US, Canada, and UK. However, you can use it in other countries at your own discretion. But the problem now, is that from their website you can only download it sending an SMS to phones from thos countries. So some of us will have to wait…

Technical features:

• Screen: support VGA and QVGA screen resolutions.
• WM models: works on Windows Mobile phones (not PDAs) like HTC Tilt, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Fuze, Motorola Q and Q9, Palm Pro, Palm 800W and Samsung Blackjack II.
• Symbian S60 models: works on E61, E61i, E62, E71, N73, N75, N76, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N95 and N96.
• Tech support: it supports Flash 9!!!, AJAX and Quicktime.
• NOT support: WM PDAs!!! and WVGA WM phones.

How it works:

Skyfire works in a similar way to Opera Mini. The site you want to visit passes through Skyfire servers and then is sent to your mobile device the way it needs. It uses Firefox engine to render the sites. It allows zoom ans saving pics and other files from sites.

We are looking forward to having other countries and mobile devices to be supported!!! 

No, it´s not a mistake. You can really run a web server on your S60 mobile phone. Wheter you find it useful or not, that´s up to you.

Nevertheless, they have found some interest uses. Accesing calendar, contacts or SMS through the website the phone provides (and that includes sending SMS) are just the basic features. Sharing the pictures of you camera gallery and maintaining a mobile website like a blog with RSS support are some of the advanced features.

Beware, get an unlimited data plan or prepare to face the famous “carrier charges may apply”.

Link Mobile Web Server

We show you the first Fennec screenshots of the pre-alpha versions (M6). Now Fennec has reached Milestone 9, which means the first alpha release is out, and here you have all you need to know from Fennec, Mozilla´s mobile browser.

Fennec propose an interesting way of managing tabs, favourites and options, as this screenshot suggests.

First, you have to take into account that these working alpha versions are specially optimized for Nokia Internet Tablet N810, so the feeling its a kind of iPhone landscape mode browsing.

The website gets scaled to the device wide, so you can only browse the website up and down. Shall you pull right, your opened tabs will appear on the left. Pulling left, the toolbar with Favourites, Back/Forward and Options will show up.

You would like it or not, but it´s undeniable that its simple and clean. Perhaps we missed the use of transparencies so the web content won´t need to be moved.

Press the Options button for basic tunning, which includes some cool features like plugins (there are a lot available… there are a lot not working… but hey, this is not even a beta version!) as well as other not-so-cool options, as the one for not loading images which I guess is there more for melancholy of the old times than for testing purposes…

These are the complete set of features of Fennec Alpha 1, extracted from the release notes:

Easy navigation to Web content:

• Bookmarks, including tags
• Smart URL bar (“awesome bar”)
• Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images
• Integrated Web search – built into the URL bar
• Easy access to multiple search engines

Web content:

• Maximize content by auto-hiding controls and URL bar
• Zoom in and out

Security:

• Instant Web site ID (“Larry“)
• Password manager
• Popup blocker
• Clear private data

Devices services integration:

• Click on a phone number to initiate a call
• JavaScript API to get device location
• Popup blocker
• Clear private data

Also:

• Searchable download manager
• Preferences pane

Fennec will officially be released on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Maemo (Nokia´s Linux) and WON´T be released on iPhone nor Android, according to Mozilla.

Fennec will soon be a strong contender for Webkit and Opera based browsers. It will have the developer community support, and Fennec development will increase quickly as Mozilla is working hard from the begining for getting Fennec as known as it could. This open marketing campaign includes demo versions for desktop systems, which you can download and test on the release notes website.

One of the best plugins for web browsers are now available for the iPhone. Cooliris for the iPhone is perfect for browsing through media-rich web content on the fly with an incredible displayed interface.

Simple and cool as in desktops, Cooliris Piclens runs perfect on the iPhone and works as a web browser too when you simple tap on the image link.

Discover on the iPhone has some additional features that distinguish it from the traditional web client. Since the iPhone knows where you are, you’ll get news customized to your locale (Spanish users will automatically have a Spain News feed available to them, for example). This is a great new feature and a big shout-out to our enthusiastic international user base!

Discover on Cooliris for the iPhone also allows you to zoom in on the media and pull up the related story in-line by using the Earth icon. There’s no need to jump out of Cooliris and visit the parent website in order to get the full story!

We have been testing Cooliris and our verdict is: essential. It is simply the best way to search for images and video on the web, cool and simple interface.

You can download Cooliris on the AppStore for free now!

Link Cooliris

Can you believe this headline? Sounds odd, but it is real.

For three consecutive years this Japan Mobile Novel Award is given in Japan. Mobile novels are distributed over the internet to mobile phones and this are reaching great success, while e-book doesn´t take off in this country.

The winners of this year was the 23 years old girl “Kiki” who wrote this funny novel (Japanese 429 pages). This writer style has been praised as well as criticised, but one can only wait for imitations to come out after her winning this award.

This is the beginning of the novel: ( translated by Pepino).

My name is
Aki
Age?
23
Well I’ll be 24 this year
Boyfriend?
Well
Of course
I have one
You know
How couldn’t I have one
or whatever
My boyfriend is
normal
You know
I’m doing him a favor
by going out with him
or something

This is a great idea and i think it could reach a great success in the occidental market too, why not? we spend more time in font of the mobile screen than in the pages of a book, and this kind of stories are extensive enough to be readed while you go to work by train or bus.

Another great japanese invention

Link Official web page
Via Pepinismo

Last 29th August, Nokia introduced Ovi, the company’s new Internet services brand name. Ovi, which means “door” in Finish, is the new gateway to all Nokia services and represents an easy way for consumers to access content, communities and existing social networks from Nokia compatible devices or from PCs.  With these services, Nokia is poised to take on Apple’s iTunes market.

As part of Ovi, Nokia announced:

• Nokia Music Store: Allow to try and buy music from artists around the world. The dynamic recommendation engine and genre-based instant playlists provide access to show what others are enjoying. The store opens across European markets this fall and tracks will cost 1€, albums 10€, and a monthly subscription for PC streaming for 10€.
• N-Gage: Selecting the N-Gage application on a compatible Nokia device, its possible to preview available games, connect with other users, read reviews, download a free demo or buy the game. It will be ready in November 2007.
• Nokia Maps: A navegation service that offers maps, city guides and more directly to compatible devices.
• Share on Ovi: A media sharing online that allows the upload and storage of photos, videos etc. Users can upload media direct from their nokia mobile phone through the share online 3.0 application or can alternately use their PC.
• Files on Ovi: The service allows users to access files on their computers from any remote PC (via Web browser) and many mobile devices, and also facilitates sharing files.

To take down Apple’s iTunes will be a difficult task for Nokia. Both are prolific hardware designers and both have entered the multimedia download market. Apple is doing very well with their iPhone, but Nokia is the number one mobile device company in the world.

Vía cotizalia

Google upgrade its maps mobile application to include “Street view”, The newest features will be available for BlackBerry devices and many Java-enabled phones., and in markets where Street View, walking directions, and reviews are currently available on the desktop. This service is now available in this link.

“We’ve also added other features to help you search for and get to businesses and locations. You can now read business reviews, so you’ll know if it’s actually worth driving across town to that store.”

iPhone owner must wait, I tested and it is not supported. Google please! (begging ) upgrade our iPhone google maps!

Via GoogleMobileBlog

If you are into Mobile Web Development, this piece of news should be very interesting for you. .Mobi has revamped dev.mobi website into a brand new place named mobiForge.

After two years, dev.mobi had become something big enough to deserve an redesign. The amount of documents, tools, links, articles and other kind of information were exceding initial expectations. So, .Mobi folks decided to redefine the site, changing the way information is organized.

Also the navigation structure has changed. Well, not just changed but improved. Now, you’ll be able to navigate through the existing information in an easier way, accesing existing resources easily.

Please, take a look at the new site, you won’t regret it.

Link mobiForge

A few days ago Google launched Google Mobile App for BlackBerry.
Google Mobile App lets you access to:

• Search
• Maps
• GMail
• Calendar
• Docs
• GOOG-411
• News
• Photos
• Reader
• Notepad

The absence of Google Talk and non-management of the applications may be the negative note from both the Google Mobile app and the Google Mobile site.

On the other hand, Google has improved other features, such as:

• Searches faster
• History searches
• Complete queries (Google suggest)
• Updates alerts

If you visit m.google.com on your BlackBerry, you can download and install the application, allowing you to get immediate access to all applications.

I hope soon get versions for all devices. Many of us want to get access to this application but we don’t have a BlackBerry.

Via Google Mobile Blog

Wimob is a great tool that helps web developers to convert their multimedia contents to mobile formats, and deliver them to the user´s device through a common framework, supporting more than 1000 phones. They call it “The Revolution of Web to Mobile”.

Such an application means a giant leap on mobile content delivery, as it provides a unique framework for developers, offering an abstraction of the device itself. As usual, the full version is not free. The differences with the free basic version are a customizable interface and delivery of your own mobile applications.

It currently supports downloading media through bluetooth, USB or infrared, but Wi-Fi, SyncML and others are on the way. Its uselfulness is not only limited to “live” video conversion to virtually any device, but also to whatever web content developers would need. Some suggestions are catalogs, schedules, brochures… the limit is up to you. Look at the official presentation (embedded below) for more information, or visit their site.

Link Wimob – The revolution of web to mobile