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Mozilla shows the seriousness working on a mobile browser market by releasing a beta version of Firefox 4 platform mobile to Android and (Nokia) Maemo. The browser is much faster than the claimed default browser to compete with Android 2.1 and WebKit on Android SunSpider 2.2.

“The initial version of Firefox made for Android is very slow compared to the default browser. Performance is important in a mobile browser and our efforts to improve it paid off already. Latest beta version firmer and we have a plan makes it even more quickly,” wrote Matt Brubeck on the Mozilla blog .

Mobile browser, codenamed Fennec 2.0 that uses the same basic layout with the Firefox browser desktop 4 beta. However, Firefox 4 beta use the latest Javascript and the latest extensions, called JagerMonkey. This beta version also is equipped with Sync to sync Firefox bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and data entry in the Firefox browser on different platforms.

According to Brubeck, the presence of Firefox 4 beta is the answer to that carried Apple’s WebKit technology and Google. According to him, Webkit that make a web site can be optimized on the mobile platform is very good, but forcing a new web built web-only with Webkit. It is considered dangerous, such as ten years ago when Internet Explorer controls much of the market and most sites use a specific mark-ups only for IE.

“We think people should be able to choose the best browser for mobile such as on his computer. More and more options to encourage all browsers continue to innovate and learn from each other so that everything continues to improve his speed,” he said.

The first version of Firefox Mobile available for Nokia Maemo on the Nokia N900 since January. Alpha version for Android catch up since April. Now, Firefox 4 beta can be downloaded to your Nokia N900 and Android on top of version 2.0 in www.mozilla.com/en-us/mobile/downloads

Sales smart phones (smartphones) Android based in the United States managed to beat the BlackBerry and the iPhone during the second quarter of 2010.

”Even so, it might be too fast for Google and the community to assume Android smartphone operating system won the war in the United States. Android mastery at the highest point for the first time it was a milestone (Milestone),’’said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.

Android-based smartphone sales only win by a nose than a BlackBerry. The number of BlackBerry devices sold in the United States in the second quarter was 4.84 million. 4.96 million Android based phones. While Apple sold 3.22 million iPhones.

Meanwhile, mobile phone collection system Microsoft Windows sold 662 thousand, 420 thousand and other Symbian 434 thousand.

Though Nokia leads the global market through Symbian-based smartphones, with sales of 25.3 million, they apparently must be very careful. Based on the data recorded at Gartner, the BlackBerry is now occupying the second position in the global market with sales of 11.2 million. Third and fourth positions respectively held by selling 10.6 million Android and iPhone with 8.7 million.

In the United States, began to launch Android based phones in the second quarter last year. During the second quarter of 2009, selling only 380 thousand units.

Milanesi said the next milestone for Android will happen when global sales of the two positions at the end of 2011.

Sales Apple operating system and Research in Motion limited number of models that can be produced during the year. While Android could run on various phone models and carriers.

DROID ERIS by HTC combines the popular Android platform with HTC Sense, the user experience by HTC, which makes it easier for clients to be near each other and create a unique mobile experience tailored specifically to their needs. This phone offers users the ability to customize the seven-panel widescreen with a wide range of widgets designed to make the most important information on the surface.

The Verizon Droid Eris sports a black shell with a slightly more rounded bottom curve. The Home, menu, back and search buttons are now in a single line. Touch-sensitive, which were built in the same casing as the screen. Only the physical buttons on the touch screen calls and hang up buttons scroll wheel found in MyTouch 3G and G1 phone. The camera lens looks backward rather much like the view that most camera phones took the back, probably because, as Stark, the rest of the phone.

Running Google’s Android 1.5 OS, the Droid Eris is the second phone from Verizon, Motorola Droid is another. Like the Sprint HTC Hero, HTC has once again adopted the Android operating system as a starting point, and put their own special sheen on the operating system. Called the Sense UI it basically gives you a more graphical look of Android OS on a more adult experience.

The screen remains at 3.2-inches, the same as the Sprint model. Compared to other smartphones on the market, is slightly larger than the Palm Pre’s 3.1-inch screen and little less than the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen. In any case, less hyptic screen phone has enabled more compact, which does not take up more real estate in your pocket, but it is still widely used.

It also includes the innovative “Scenes” feature, which allows users to create multiple home screens, each with various widgets and shortcuts to transform DROID ERIS HTC with the “work” the phone to play with the phone only with your finger. It also organizes the interaction of the person that allows access to text messages, emails, telephone calls and even updates from Flickr and Facebook, the flow of a contact card.

Given the more than 80% of our readers with Android phones are using an outdated version of the OS, I think most of you will find it interesting. There was some confusion about who gets an Android phone 2.1 update, and I’m partly to blame. I wrote a post in August that questioned the ability of G1 to receive future updates. Google finally found a way to do a Donut (Android 1.6) is placed in the G1 and wrong. From that moment I thought the full version Eclair “(Android 2.x) can not be possible in T-Mobile G1.

After talking to several sources within familiar with the matter, I would like to inform you that all Android phones are released in the U.S., receive updates on Android 2.1. Some phones can not have features of Android 2.1 (Table Live), but will Android 2.1 firmware.

Now I will cut the bad news. Select Android phones will need to delete when you update to Android 2.1. I really only know the terminals, which require the destruction, so that it might include all (less Droid Android already in 2.0.1). Select Android phones should also be based on the PC, install the update for Android 2.1. HTC is currently being done abroad, with some phones from Samsung, and Sprint did in the last minute changes.

The carriers are working with handset manufacturers to determine if their renewal would be by air or by hooking up a PC client. However, I believe that most will be based on a PC, and to update the application to make a proper backup, Flash SPL (if necessary), and to achieve higher rates of correct installation (CLIQs anyone BRIQs?) .

Finally, most (if not all) Android 2.1 updates are on schedule for Q2 2010. Sprint said it had two phones to receive updates at the beginning of Q2, but I have heard of 3G and G1 myTouch be a first gen 1 device to receive updates.