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Opera Mini iPhone/iPod Touch

logtech — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:49:26 +0000

Opera Mini has finally been released on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. From the current test it is 10 times better than Safari. The first thing you will notice is speed. Pages load much faster than Safari (lifehacker chart). The speed of a loading website makes a considerable different especially when on Edge or 3G. The tab browsing on Opera is nice, it is out-of-the-way and easy to use. Page zooms are quick, however we found sometimes they were to quick. We also found there is only one zoom level, however, Opera will re size everything so you don’t have to worry about that too much. One feature which we found useful was search in the website which Safari lacks. With some test we found that Opera had some trouble with formatting pages, cutting off text, and making headers too big. However, this does not take away from the over all experience. Over all it is a speedy browser that has some issues like startup time and zoom, but is probably one of the best mobile web view experiences yet.

Update: Skyfire another mobile web browser may come out on the iPhone and iPod Touch soon; it might have flash.

Envivio iLiveTV

logtech — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:51:43 +0000

Envivio iLiveTV is a new service for the iPhone and iPod touch that allows you watch live TV from online. Envivio uses Apples new HTTP streaming format which allows for the live video to be streamed right to the phone or iPod. iLiveTV works over 3G and of course Wi-Fi, however your mileage on how well the stream comes through may vary. Over all on a Wi-Fi connection the stream came through fairly well and only had a few buffers in the beginning. iLiveTV is a online app only and there is nothing to download. This is a ok idea, however the interface can be a little odd. At the moment the app only has about 6 channels including KRON, KTEH, KGO-TV and few others. These may not be main stream channels but it is a good experiment that works well. If you would like to try this for yourself you can be put on their waiting list for a password for the site. Check out the pictures below.

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Iphone, Iphone, Iphone….

logtech — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:09:04 +0000

Well you may be sick of hearing about the iPhone like me, or you may not. As you may or may not know the new iPhone 3G came out Friday, and the reviews are falling off the tree hitting every blog on the way down. Personally I do not see why there needs to be so much coverage, but then again almost every Apple product is like this, the hype and all. I do not dislike all Apple products, but the talk about one product before and after it comes out is overload.

I have not got the chances to test the new 3G iPhone, however I saw a test for the speed of the 3G (below) on Cnet. It was a little over 20 second different in the test of loading a website. 20 Seconds is nice however, the other features that are missing from the 3G like a camera that can record video, landscape keyboard, and changeable batteries make the iPhone a no buy for me, yet.

Please leave a comment on what you thought I said, maybe you could change my mind.