This impressive app will surely improve your browsing experience!

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  • Author Iren Birken
  • Published January 19, 2011
  • Word count 455

Dolphin Browser is a feature-rich application that offers you a better mobile internet experience. Dolphin supports tabbed browsing, multi-touch zooming, and lets you access the entire suite of Google applications with ease. Dolphin also supports RSS feeds through Google reader, syncs with Google bookmarks, and lets you share links with social networks.

Dolphin is fast at loading a page. The start page features an icon bar on the left side. It displays the most visited sites, bookmarks, Google services, Read it later, and Del.icio.us Bookmarks. The 'Most visited', reflects your website viewing habits, and 'Google services' gives you access to the entire suite of Google applications, like, Gmail, Maps, iGoogle, blogger, and YouTube. Dolphin browser gives you the capability to download YouTube videos to your mobile. Simply browse YouTube videos, and select the video to download in Dolphin browser. The video will be saved on your SD card, in the 'download' folder.

Dolphin supports tabbed browsing. It allows you to manage all your open tabs while you are viewing you current webpage. You can hide the tabs from the menu, or by setting the default to auto hide tabs. Page navigation is easy, and you can delete cache and history by holding the Back button. The multi-touch Pinch-zoom feature gives you the ability to zoom in and out of web pages.

One of the best features of Dolphin is 'Gestures', which allows you to navigate your browser by drawing symbols on the screen. You can assign a new gesture or edit a gesture to your liking. To access gestures, tap the gesture icon to bring up the drawing pad. Then simply draw your gesture on the screen, with your finger. Ex. Drawing the letter 'B' for bookmark. The app interprets your gesture, and the browser goes to the required page. This feature allows you to navigate smarter and faster.

Dolphin also allows private browsing, and RSS subscription. It supports automatic detection of feeds when you visit a site. These can be added to Google reader with a single click. The settings page contains options such as, Theme settings, Gesture settings, RSS Notifications, Auto hide tab bar, and Gesture button position. It has an intuitive search bar, and also supports add-ons. Dolphin has plenty of useful features, included in a neat, easy to use interface. This is one highly impressive app that will definitely better your browsing experience.

Features:

  • Navigate faster, by using Gestures

  • Allows you to download YouTube videos to your SD card

  • Zoom in and out of web pages by using the Multi-touch Pinch zoom feature

  • Dolphin supports Add-ons

  • Simple easy to use interface

  • Dolphin lets you subscribe to RSS feeds

  • Grants access to the entire suite of Google applications

  • Tabbed browsing

Iren Birken is IT specialist, heavily using Windows Mobile devices every day.

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