To use Excite Mobile, users enter mobile.excite.com on their phone browser and then bookmark the site for future use.
The service is similar to Foursquare and Gowalla, enabling users to connect and share photos, reviews and other information in real-time using their mobile phone browser.
Mobile devices suddenly became content rich, with access to more information on the go, albeit limited by bandwidth and phone web browser capabilities.
The phone's browser also loads Web pages more quickly--slow browsing is a frequent criticism of BlackBerrys in general.
The way we engage with our news and entertainment changed from print to the web, from the desktop to the phone, from browser to Kindle and Nook.
Thanks to the IR sensor, the phone's browser responds to an "up swipe" in the air above it with by scrolling up, and to a "side" swipe by jumping to another tab.
Finally, since no-permissions apps can launch the phone's Web browser, that provides a potential route to transmit some data from the phone.
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Or the app might open the phone's Web browser to allow functionality that could be handled other ways.
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So it includes, you know, YouTube, Google Maps, the Web browser, phone functionality, contact management, calendar, alarm clock, like everything in a bundle.
Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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Visit YouTube or Twitter via the Web browser on your phone or tablet.
Is someone going to buy a BlackBerry over an iPhone or Android phone because of your improved browser?
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This includes access to the phone, camera, web browser and text message apps.
While not as fully featured as the current Windows Phone handsets, they are a cut above a regular phone, including a web browser, email client, and social media applications.
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Customers can read their Kindle books on the largest number of devices and platforms, including any Kindle as well as on iPhone, iPad, Android devices, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone or in their web browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 together mark a rare confluence for Microsoft: they represent the first instance of the company's desktop and phone platforms sharing the same browser base, and that has wide-reaching implications for what developers can do.
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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.
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O2 has sought to counter cost complaints by touting the phone as a feature-packed device with a top of the line MP3 player and Internet browser, not just a mere cell phone.
Before, developers were limited to working with the Web browser built into the phone.
On many mobiles the browser provided with the phone is the only choice someone has.
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Browser experience: Mobile phone companies are constantly looking to improve browsers to provide higher speed with less bandwidth consumption.
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Future Droids may come at a low price if you agree to Google as the exclusive search bar and default browser search on the phone.
Apple will likely sell more than 10 million of the pricey gadgets this year, which combines a wireless phone, iPod and a mobile Web browser.
Currently, the only Apple-approved way to get a program onto the iPhone is through a Web application that works on the phone's built-in Internet browser.
Windows Phone brings you the Internet beyond the browser.
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The phone, in essence, is a browser.
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"It was the first phone with a really good mobile Web browser, and we saw five times the average usage of things like Google Maps and YouTube" compared with online habits, says Vic Gundotra, Google's head of mobile developer relations.
By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.
For example, you can continue a song on the phone right where you left off in the browser.
Mobile users can click the button from their phone and navigation will start from their mobile browser, without the need for a separate GPS navigation or mapping app.
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