Tamer’s Tech Blog

I have read over the last month or so about the rumored 3G iPhone, and of course the Blackberry 9000. They are both very promising products. Personally I am long time fan of the Blackberry. However the blackberry cannot compete with the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities in my opinion. Also, the capacity on the iPhone (16 Gigs vs. the 64 MB that the BB has) is superior compared to the iPhone. Now that both devices are coming out with the 3G version, and my current BB is over a year old, I am want to get a new device. The question I have is, do I get the iPhone or the blackberry?

I went to an AT&T store a few days ago to play with an iPhone, I found that my big fingers are not making it easy for me to type on the iPhone. So that made me think twice about the iPhone.

I will wait to see which device comes out first and I will decide then.

SO today I read on one of my favorites blogs (download squad) that Opera Mobile 9.5 (another web browser like IE) is coming soon. Now I have used Opera mobile in the past on BB (blackberry) and I found it to be slow at times. I have also used the safari web browser on the iPhone, and I want to tell you it rocks. Safari was fast, allowed me to zoom in and out and I felt like i was using my mac, with just a little real estate screen as opposed to the 15″ screen I am used to. my online gripe about safari is that it does not work on my blackberry.

Now back to Opera Mini, I am excited to see some of the new features such as:

• Zoom in and out on the web page
• view full screen versions of web pages
• tabbed browsing
• fast page rendering
• convenient bookmark, transfer, and history managers.
• include a mobile version of Opera’s widget engine which allows you to access some web content like Flickr images without opening a web browser.
• It also packs Flash Lite 3 integration for accessing Flash-heavy web pages like MySpace or YouTube.

I hope the new version of opera mobile will put up a good fight against safari. Only time will tell.