Android Browser Face-Off



Android Gingerbread comes with a generic stock browser which may satisfy some but if you are really serious about surfing the web and are constantly loading up your browser for searches then you would want a browser with much more user-friendly options. Let’s review the top browser apps for Google Android mobile phones.

•    Dolphin Browser HD
This is the most popular browser for Android platform. It offers the most plug-ins in a user-friendly versatile interface. It also offers many features you cannot find on any other browser, such as gesture commands, bookmark sorting, RSS feed factor, multi-touch pinch zoom and compact page toggles.

•    Opera Mobile
Opera’s rendering engine and server-side compression enables web pages to load faster on your mobile device.  It has a speed dial function which lists all your favorite sites on one page making it easier to go to where you want faster. You can have several websites open at the same time and be able to switch easily between them using Opera tab feature. Opera also has aurl auto completion feature which allows you to effortlessly enter addresses of URL’s with Opera guessing the entire URL before you finish typing its address.

•    Firefox
Sync your mobile Android device with your desktop or laptop effortlessly. You can easily access your browsing history along with passwords, bookmarks and open tabs on all your in sync devices. Firefox awesome screen remembers your favorite sites, history and browsing habits so that it can offer shortcuts to get you where you want to go faster. Firefox gives you the ability to have multiple search engines listed so that when you search you can have the option of searching on multiple engines at once.

•    Sky Fire Web Browser  4.0
Similar to the Opera mobile,  it renders web pages on its own servers which loads websites very fast.  Sky fire features include user agent switching, Facebook QuickView, fireplace reader, popular pages, related ideas, Skybar shortcuts, Twitter QuickView and much more.  Sky fire's main objective is to combine social networking with its browser engine which they have done very successfully.

All of the browsers listed above are great and hundred times better than the stock browser that comes with Gingerbread. Feel free to test each to see which one you like most. All the browser apps are free to install and available at the Android market. I can assure you that once you use one of these browsers you will never go back to the stock Android browser again.

I personally like Dolphin Browser HD since it gets updated often and has been downloaded more than 400,000 times with user reviews of 5 stars at the Android Market. Don’t forget, a browser does not make your phone internet connectivity faster; you will need high speed 4g connectivity from your service provider for that. Check out uverse coupons Attoffers to see all the savings AT&T has for the public.

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