1. All Symbian smartphones has their own internet browsers built-in. In recent years, the default S60 Web is standard across all Symbian smartphones.
2. At the same time, there are also other 3rd party internet browsers. These can be native like Opera Mobile 10, Ozone, Skyfire (sucks!) and jB5 browsers. There are also J2ME browsers such as Opera Mini and Bolt.
3. Enter UC Browser, developed by UC Mobile Limited, or Guangzhou Ucfly Company, pretty unknown in the Western World.
4. UC Browser, now at version 7.0 is an internet browser designed for mobile devices and luckily for us Symbian users, they have released a native version (sisx installation) for us to use.
5. It uses server-side rendering which will fetch your data and compress them before sending them to your phone.
6. As a web-browser, UC Browser hosted many features like download manager, multiple window support, small screen view and many more.
7. It is free to use. You have to pay for the data, as usual or you can use it with WiFi.
8. I have used it for a couple of days but I found it not as good as Opera Mobile 10 especially with complex pages that requires javascript. However, UC Browser is faster than Opera Mobile 10 in terms of internet navigation and the UI itself.
9. If you want to test and use UC Browser, you can download it for free from the official download page.
10. Have you tried it yet? What is your opinion? Can it beat Opera Mobile 10?
- Asri al-Baker