What Is a Mobile Browser?

Mobile browsers, also called mini-browsers, mini-browsers, or wireless internet browsers, are web browsers designed for mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs. Mobile browsers are optimized for displaying web content on the small screen of a handheld device. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory and low bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. Typically, they are simplified web browsers, but by 2006, mobile browsers could handle more of the latest technologies such as CSS 2.1, JavaScript, and Ajax. Websites designed specifically for these browsers are called wireless portals.

Mobile browsers, also called mini-browsers, mini-browsers, or wireless internet browsers, are web browsers designed for mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs. Mobile browsers are optimized for displaying web content on the small screen of a handheld device. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory and low bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. Typically, they are simplified web browsers, but by 2006, mobile browsers could handle more of the latest technologies such as CSS 2.1, JavaScript, and Ajax. Websites designed specifically for these browsers are called wireless portals.

Chinese name

Mobile browser

Also known as

Mini browser

Used for

Mobile devices such as mobile phones

Technology

CSS 2.1, JavaScript

History of mobile browsers

So-called micro-browser technologies such as WAP, NTTDocomo's imode platform, and Openwave's HDML platform caused initial interest in wireless data services. The first micro-browser deployed was probably 1997 Unwired Planet (later Openwave)

Settings, RSS news aggregator, my hard drive, bookmark synchronization, etc., users can find a reasonable solution on UCWEB for data management needs on mobile phones.

7. Media support The UCWEB mobile browser has excellent media support capabilities. With its UC player, it can not only watch TV and network videos on mobile phones, but also listen to and download HD MP3 music online, and realize video and audio on the page. On demand. NetFront, Opera Mini / Opera Mobile, IE Mobile, Voyager, and Interstellar Browser do not provide media support at all. Although the Web Browser provided by Nokia mobile phones can provide effective media support, it requires the mobile phone's own functions. stand by.

Mobile browser media support

8. Shortcuts support In the above eight browsers, except IE Mobile, NetFront and Opera Mobile do not support shortcuts, the rest of the browsers support shortcuts, of which Opera mini and Star Browser support fixed shortcut key values, UCWEB and Voyager Browser supports custom key-values, allowing each user to reset the software operation to suit their own operating habits. At the same time, starting from the UCWEB6.2 version, a shortcut menu has been added to the page view, and the user can activate the shortcut menu by clicking the default keyboard shortcut "1".

Mobile browser shortcuts

9. Traffic Consumption After opening the "Mobile Monternet" and accessing several news by using the above browsers, we found that the GPRS traffic consumed was about 200KB. If you just browse the news, the daily traffic should be between 1MB and 2MB. But if you want to visit the WWW webpage, the traffic will increase greatly. For example, visiting the "" homepage and performing a search will also use at least several hundred KB of traffic.

Mobile browser data consumption

In order to clarify the traffic consumption during use, the editor conducted specific tests. Use them to log in to the same website to browse the news, check the weather, and check the stocks, and record their respective traffic consumption. In the test of stock consumption flow, use a browser to log in to the stock inquiry website, query the same stock, and view the "trend chart", "K-line chart", and "order" information in turn, and record their respective traffic consumption.

Through comparative testing, we found that there is not much difference in GPRS traffic consumption when browsing WAP pages and querying stock information. Although there is not much difference in traffic consumption when browsing a single page, there is still a gap after visiting a large number of pages or long-term use. From the test results, UCWEB saves the most traffic. In the table, the minimum data consumption of UCWEB browsing WAP pages refers to turning off the "Use WAP Acceleration" function. The minimum data consumption of browsing WWW pages refers to the data consumption of browsing when the picture quality is set to "Miniature".

In general, the part that consumes the most traffic during web browsing is the pictures on the web page. The more pictures on the page, the more obvious the UCWEB browser s traffic-saving characteristics become. Although IEMobile and Opera browsers can choose to block or display pictures, they are not as comprehensive as UCWEB with five picture quality settings of "No picture", "Miniature", "Low color", "Standard" and "Full color". Therefore, as a mobile browser used for daily news, weather and stock inquiry, UCWEB has become a well-known "housekeeper".