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Whats the best Android Twitter App? Round Robin Review.

So if you are anything like me you have tried a couple different Android Twitter apps, but not all of them. Well if you want cut down on sometime...here is an amazing review on a whole bunch of them :
http://www.wjddesigns.com/2010/09/01/android-twitter-apps-round-robin/
What's your favorite?
Mine has to be Touituer ...but its all relative..
Cheers.

I love TweetDeck. The UI is simple but looks good. Not only do I have Twitter but I have FB, Buzz, etc..

I WOULD like TweetDeck IF it properly did Facebook too, at least get it all in one place, even though honestly it tries to make Facebook behave like Twitter.. But it doesn't.
Twidryid or whatever it is is what I typically use, but I don't tweet much myself.

Tweetcaster by far. Great widget and ui.
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My Preference
My Personal Preference: TWICCA

djyosnow said:
My Personal Preference: TWICCA
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Twicca is the best IMO as well. Hands down, out the park, no other client comes close. The ONLY thing it doesn't do is view full size profile photos. The biggest plus for me is the ability to post photos using Flickr. I think it's the only client that can do that. Plus, it has a AOSP feel to it so it goes will with CM6.

Twicca

i was just using the stock app, as toutier and tweetcaster never really held me around. but yeah, after giving it a go, i'm throwing out a vote for twicca too. the all black interface looks great on the galaxy s

A Few App Recommendations

Just a few recommendations for people who haven't stalked the market lately. I'd highly recommend checking these out.
1. Amazon Appstore - Google it, it's not available on the Google market but from the amazon website instead. Gives away a paid app for free every day and it is very seriously awesome. I now have WidgetLocker, SwiftKey keyboard, Angry Birds Rio Adfree, Soundhound Unlimited, and more. All for free.
Amazon Mp3 - Now includes a music player and widget, and both are seriously cool. Go to the Amazon site and sign up for the Amazon Cloud for free and you'll get 4 gigs of free storage that you can store music in and play from the Amazon Mp3 music player.
Go SMS Pro - The new version of the go sms app. Blazing fast, great popup, widget, sms backup features, beautiful themes. It's the complete package really, and runs perfect on the Hero.
Launcher Pro Plus - There is a new unlock key for the full version for those who don't use Paypal. The latest version has a few new transition effects that run very well on the latest Gingerbread roms. Launcher Pro Plus is the all around best Launcher on the market as far as I'm concerned. Very stable, very fast, very smooth, and very customiseable. And has a great backup feature for flash addicts
Edit: A few more to add to the list
JAMT CM7 Themes - Search for the black and white versions on the Google Market. Free and paid are both very good, the best I've seen so far I think. I bought the pro white version simply to support the dev, the free version is basically the same minus battery percentage in the status bar
Quickpic - It's been mentioned in a lot of threads but it still needs some more attention I think. A brilliantly fast and smooth alternative to the stock gallery
Sleek Camera - For CM7 users this app is a must have to improve camera quality. The only other app I've found that comes close is the flashable zip Miui Camera(not the apk version) which will not work with 3.0.2.4 Clockworkmod. A must have in my opinion.
Opera Mobile Browser - Bigger and badder than Opera Mini and any other browser. Probably not to popular with minimalist fans but this browser is a very pretty and solid browser with a great development team. The latest version has a new ui and is very stable in my experience
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i was taking a stroll down memory lane and have been using a stock sense rom and had the amazon app store installed. i just flashed CM7, do you know if i can reinstall the apps i downloaded for free without any problems?

kashb91 said:
i was taking a stroll down memory lane and have been using a stock sense rom and had the amazon app store installed. i just flashed CM7, do you know if i can reinstall the apps i downloaded for free without any problems?
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Yep, shouldn't be a problem. Just log back in to your amazon account and they'll be on your apps list to reinstall. I've done a full wipe to test it.
Edit: As well, all apps from the Amazon Appstore are upgraded from the Appstore so as far as I know, there should be no issues between it and the Google market.
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sweet just did and had no problems at all. as a bonus, i was actually able to install angry birds rio this time around on gingerbread.

Thanks OP,
I agree with all your apps youve posted but i have yet to try the amazon app.
If i may... i'd like to reccomend a few as well...
..if you are really into music (like i am) and have lots of gigs on your pc (i have about 500 gb) then the app {Audiogalaxy} is a MUST.
For all the music on your phone and a sweet-arse EQ you gotta have {PowerAmp}. my fav.
{Flow} for a flawless facebook experience. way better than the regular FB app, but not themed all purdy-like from our guys here at XDA. maybe soon??
...for an awesome clock/weather/system-info Widget, look no further than {FlipClock Blue Magic Dark}
{Music Junk} for downloading that song that just popped into your head.
{LCD Density Changer} i believe it changes the dpi of your screen.
{rootExplorer} my favorite file manager.
{Tweetcaster} my fav twitter app next to TweetDeck. has a killer blue themed interface and sweet Widget.
and i use {YouMail} for my voicemail needs and i have no complaints. i really like how you can change what greeting plays if the incoming call is either blocked/unavailable/or someone specific.
...and my favorite Camera App has got to be {Vignette}. it has sooo many filters/effects and takes the best looking pics imo. better than MIUI i think.
thanks XDA
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I'm using a new SMS app called GeekSMS that popped up today. Minimalist and sleek, I dig it.
I agree about the Amazon Appstore. There are a lot of haters but yesterday Wolfram Alpha was free. Can't complain about the quality free apps of the day.
I really like GO SMS but I'm using Geek SMS, it's less weighty.

kashb91 said:
i was taking a stroll down memory lane and have been using a stock sense rom and had the amazon app store installed. i just flashed CM7, do you know if i can reinstall the apps i downloaded for free without any problems?
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If you back them up with Titanium, they'll reinstall no problem when you flash a new or different rom.

jckeyser said:
I'm using a new SMS app called GeekSMS that popped up today. Minimalist and sleek, I dig it.
I agree about the Amazon Appstore. There are a lot of haters but yesterday Wolfram Alpha was free. Can't complain about the quality free apps of the day.
I really like GO SMS but I'm using Geek SMS, it's less weighty.
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Sweet, I'll definitely check that out, hadn't seen anything about it yet
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jckeyser said:
I'm using a new SMS app called GeekSMS that popped up today. Minimalist and sleek, I dig it.
I agree about the Amazon Appstore. There are a lot of haters but yesterday Wolfram Alpha was free. Can't complain about the quality free apps of the day.
I really like GO SMS but I'm using Geek SMS, it's less weighty.
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Gotta say, that app is pretty unbelievable. I'm having problems getting the popups to work but it is very very fast. Very stable too, no force closes at all and loads fast too. I'm probably going to uninstall Go SMS for now and try out Geek for a few days
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Honeycomb 3.1 announcement

So we should be seeing Honeycomb 3.1 for our transformers in the near future.
Google only showed a new task switcher and adjustable widgets as two new features. Shouldn't this be called Honeycomb 3.0.1? I'm not terribly impressed... I hope they fix some major force close issues and general bugs in the next release....
As for task/memory management, I wish they added a feature that allows us to exclude apps from ever being closed. Going back to a browser and having it reload 5 tabs EVERYTIME consumes a fair amount of bandwidth and time.
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I feel the same about the update, seems very underwhelming. I wanted to see new games etc but that was non existent.

EP2008 said:
So we should be seeing Honeycomb 3.1 for our transformers in the near future.
Google only showed a new task switcher and adjustable widgets as two new features. Shouldn't this be called Honeycomb 3.0.1? I'm not terribly impressed... I hope they fix some major force close issues and general bugs in the next release....
As for task/memory management, I wish they added a feature that allows us to exclude apps from ever being closed. Going back to a browser and having it reload 5 tabs EVERYTIME consumes a fair amount of bandwidth and time.
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We are already at 3.0.1, but I agree with you doesn't seem like too much though I do like the new features.

I don't know what the heck google is thinking, but they need to focus on building a STABLE Android OS and really dumping resources into getting apps up to par with apple.
Instead they focus on remote light switches and facial recognition gimmicks... if quality apps don't start coming soon, it won't matter what flavor of desert they put out as it will be weak.
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I am sure they appreciate your input.

v0kal said:
I am sure they appreciate your input.
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I'm sure they don't... I'm not sure who's giving them ideas like this, but when I upgrade my browser on my PC, it's not a Windows 7.1 update... with google, something as trivial as resizing widgets (which has been possible via 3rd party apps for a while) seems to qualify as a substantial upgrade.
Oh well, whatever keeps people excited.
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Stop and think for a moment. They are releasing a new build of an OS. I'm sure that the resizing of Widgets is not the only thing they are doing. I would be willing to bet there will be plenty of fixes in the update.
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Of course there are a lot of little things making 3.1 a great release.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html
For consumers and for developers.

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Of course there are a lot of little things making 3.1 a great release.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html
For consumers and for developers.
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Yes, little things. This should be a 3.0.1 release. The USB host thing... my Archos was using USB devices and it was running froyo! LOL
I'm looking forward to 3.1 anyways. I hope it's more stable than 3.0.
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Some notable updates
- An updated home button, while still appearing the same, will now take the user to the most recently used home screen panel when pressed in an app instead of always taking the user to the center panel. (my pet peeve so far).
- PTP will allow users to connect a digital camera directly to a tablet so that the tablet can import all of the camera's photos.
- Web pages can now be saved for offline viewing, and the browser also offers faster zooming and support for hardware accelerated plug-ins.

A simple feature request. Allow us to choose which folders we wish to display in the Gallery. I'm unable to use it as all the album art from my music as well as bitmaps from apps really clog it up.

Billus said:
A simple feature request. Allow us to choose which folders we wish to display in the Gallery. I'm unable to use it as all the album art from my music as well as bitmaps from apps really clog it up.
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I think it's fairly good. USB host thing is cool, and resizable Widgets and a better browser good too. Also "UI transitions are improved throughout the system and across the standard apps. The Launcher animation is optimized for faster, smoother transition to and from the Apps list." So should overall feel smoother and no ui lag.
Honeycomb's pretty solid as it is and with these changes even better. Not sure why people are so disappointed really, what did you expect to be added?

bedoig said:
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This blocks music appearing in the official app. PowerAMP and other 3rd party apps can't find music on the microsd in Honeycomb.

I'm pretty sure there are bugfixes that arent in the feature list.

spinkick said:
I'm pretty sure there are bugfixes that arent in the feature list.
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Yes, what we have seen in the links is more than likely not an exhaustive list of improvements, tweaks and bug-fixes.

atxer said:
Some notable updates
- An updated home button, while still appearing the same, will now take the user to the most recently used home screen panel when pressed in an app instead of always taking the user to the center panel. (my pet peeve so far).
- PTP will allow users to connect a digital camera directly to a tablet so that the tablet can import all of the camera's photos.
- Web pages can now be saved for offline viewing, and the browser also offers faster zooming and support for hardware accelerated plug-ins.
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I really hope they fixed the market app. That is my biggest pet peeve. You scroll down for 30 seconds, click on an app to check it out, click "back", and now you are back at the top, have to scroll way down again. When trying to find apps to install it is a huge pain.

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I really hope they fixed the market app. That is my biggest pet peeve. You scroll down for 30 seconds, click on an app to check it out, click "back", and now you are back at the top, have to scroll way down again. When trying to find apps to install it is a huge pain.
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LOL, yeah, it's a major pain!
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Hahahah agreed that changes arent much BUT we arent even sure when we are getting THAT update ...........
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I'm pretty sure 3.1 will support hardware acceleration, that to me is a HUGE improvement. Flash rendering should be a whole lot better. I already think Honeycomb is a very solid OS and the new features are exciting. As long as they keep rolling out updates I'll be happy.
I must admit what was announced at IO was underwhelming, but who cares? Are you used to Apple esque keynotes that praise "new" features that have been available on other OS's for years?

Best e-book reader app for Kindle Fire?

Hello, might be a strange question, as Kindle Fire is electronic ebook reader itself
But as we all know, we play it, we root it, we have this beauty called ICS CM9 and Kernel 3 with master Hashcode.
But now I have strange problem. I DO NO KNOW a good ebook reader app on the market. I'm missing the reading experience which I got from original Kindle Fire rom/software.
I tried Mantano reader - UI is just horrible. The text is stoo small to read(UI), it works slow and so on..
I tried google books - same crap, cannot use dictionary, what about highliting??.
I tried Kindle App - which I think is the best for reading books, and I found out that it is not scaled properly.
Any solution for scaling problem?
Or maybe some suggestions of nice ebook apps or advices how and what you guys use/do ?
Thank you very much

Check out Cool Reader and Moon Reader.

cluendo said:
Hello, might be a strange question, as Kindle Fire is electronic ebook reader itself
But as we all know, we play it, we root it, we have this beauty called ICS CM9 and Kernel 3 with master Hashcode.
But now I have strange problem. I DO NO KNOW a good ebook reader app on the market. I'm missing the reading experience which I got from original Kindle Fire rom/software.
I tried Mantano reader - UI is just horrible. The text is stoo small to read(UI), it works slow and so on..
I tried google books - same crap, cannot use dictionary, what about highliting??.
I tried Kindle App - which I think is the best for reading books, and I found out that it is not scaled properly.
Any solution for scaling problem?
Or maybe some suggestions of nice ebook apps or advices how and what you guys use/do ?
Thank you very much
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Try fbreader. People say it's good.
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Thank you guys for suggestions, I will try it!
But do all of you have scaling problems with Kindle App ? Because it fells like it is not a full screen.
Also I tried Aldiko ( I heard it is the best ). For me it i the worst. The most laggy app I've ever experienced. Unusable on Kindle unfortunately
Don't think I'm picky or smth. I just hate an idea that there are no simple apps as ebook reader..or at least it's hard to find.

cluendo said:
Thank you guys for suggestions, I will try it!
But do all of you have scaling problems with Kindle App ? Because it fells like it is not a full screen.
Also I tried Aldiko ( I heard it is the best ). For me it i the worst. The most laggy app I've ever experienced. Unusable on Kindle unfortunately
Don't think I'm picky or smth. I just hate an idea that there are no simple apps as ebook reader..or at least it's hard to find.
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I completely agree with you. I almost went back to the stock ROM. I now just use Mantano reader because it's the smoothest.
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veeman said:
I now just use Mantano reader because it's the smoothest.
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Thanks for the tip, handles pdfs very well.

Aldiko is great, but for some strange reason it identifices a 7" tablet as our KF as a phone instead of a tablet. If they could get that fixed they would be kings of tablets again as well as they are of phones.

Lotek said:
Thanks for the tip, handles pdfs very well.
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My only gripe is that the UI text is a bit small.

I use Aldiko and have never had any issues with it like those that are being described here. Its very smooth on my device. Mine is overclocked, though.

Majin Kaioh said:
I use Aldiko and have never had any issues with it like those that are being described here. Its very smooth on my device. Mine is overclocked, though.
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OP is on CM9 with the 3.0 kernel so that means he is (99% sure) overclocked too.

Ironically, I like the B&N Nook reader the best - IMHO the best legibility of fonts, spacing and scaling controls, and better/more intuitive/easier to use highlighting and commenting tools.

Have you tried Kobo Reader? It's my favorite!
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gandoe , I never actually see the NOOK app! I did a research and found that it is somehow restricted in my country - I can't download it via market.
Can someone upload this app please! link here http://www.appbrain.com/app/nook-for-android-by-b-n/bn.ereader
Here is what I found:
*Kobo app is working pretty flawless and smooth ! Best app so far I've used ( I dunno about the NOOK one though..) big thanx to milanche
*Kindle App is smooth as well, but it just doesn't completely full screen on my Kindle Fire.
*Aldiko for me is annoyingly laggy app, especially when zooming, scrolling pages etc..
*Mantano Reader is nice a well BUT UI text is way too small and it just doesn't feel nice as an app ( just my opinion)
So can someone upload NOOK for android apk ?
THANK YOU!
P.S. Yes I tried to use Market Enabler to fake my country, but it do not allow me to install.....

You have the app brain link there. Why can't you download it?
Edit :
Here is a link for download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294967&page=2
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I don't know, even using AppBrain app I cannot download. It doesn't allow me.
But I found it here http://www.mediafire.com/?wr4w53d735rb0w4
Its an older version but I managed to update it via market once installed
It is pretty the best app now, even comparing with Kobo.

Aldiko is pretty good
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I use Aldiko and I love it. I have my background as tan and letters as brown and its quite easy on the eyes. Night setting is just the reverse brown/tan.
People talking about font being too small on some readers, isn't that customizable? I've only tried aldiko and kindle, an I was very unsatisfied with the kindle app. Alot of my book covers in the row were very small while some big and I couldn't find a fix so that killed it for me.
I do wish tho that the bookshelf in aldiko was resizeable. I like big book thumbnails.
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bivouac said:
I use Aldiko and I love it. I have my background as tan and letters as brown and its quite easy on the eyes. Night setting is just the reverse brown/tan.
People talking about font being too small on some readers, isn't that customizable? I've only tried aldiko and kindle, an I was very unsatisfied with the kindle app. Alot of my book covers in the row were very small while some big and I couldn't find a fix so that killed it for me.
I do wish tho that the bookshelf in aldiko was resizeable. I like big book thumbnails.
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I agree, but I use Aldiko only for free books, because I have 2 kindle devices so I need to use the stock kindle app to sync everything. But Aldiko does have small book covers and very basic page turn animation, but it still is pretty good
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I don't know why but Aldiko when you turn pages of the ebook it delays for 1 sec or so. I particularly don't like that, and the book shelf has small thumbnails as mentioned. I'm playing with Kobo and NOOK apps now. I think NOOK is the best right now. Big thumbnails of books, quickly loads the books, nice animations on turning pages, and it's smooth when you turn pages. Easy highlight, notes selection tools. And you can adjust everything from font size to margins to font itself. So it's pretty cool app now for reading I think.
Kobo would be great as well, as I like the design of the app more. But it loads books slowly somehow. Even between chapter it takes some time to load book up. Selecting text and highliting is annoying though...
So I stick with NOOK now and probably Kindle app sometimes.
Aldiko would be great if they would fix small thumbnails of bookshelf, and if they would remove that scrolling the page delays...

Cool Reader is by far the best non stock kindle reading app. Because I was on stock for months before I switched to ICS, my entire library was MOBI format. SO I didn't have to convert them to another format. Cool Reader also has a ton of features, a lot more than the stock reader app or any of the other ones.

One of the BEST Android Browsers: Habit Browser

Not my app, just found in a Reddit post--tried it, it's amazing. Basically, whatever you're using right now is probably inferior. I used Boat Browser, then Chrome extensively. Dabbled in Dolphin, Firefox, Maxthon, and a few others. Habit Browser beats them all handily. Amazingly, it's free!!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ddo.pigsty.HabitBrowser
Best mostly unique features of HB (Habit Browser):
Set URL re-directs: don't you hate when XDA forum links from a Google search don't open Tapatalk? HB allows you to add new URL re-directs to apps (as many as you want)
Customize EVERY toolbar: customize the address bar, tab toolbar, and browsing toolbar (back, forward, refresh, home) to 1) go away 2) place exactly where you want them (top, bottom, this toolbar on top of that, etc.), 3) change the buttons (with swiping and long-press functionality), 4) themes, and lots more
Set a real home-page, meaning it will open when you open a new tab.
Pie control.
Gestures for flicking that DO NOT require another "interface" (like Dolphin's odd implementation).
A bajiillion more. Not even kidding; easily over 100 options.
The first three sold it to me instantly ("sold"...it's ACTUALLY FREE). I implore you to try it, not because I like it, but because it will change your Android browsing experience for the better.

Oops! Google Chrome could not find habit browser - play store link

Caebron said:
Oops! Google Chrome could not find habit browser - play store link
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Oh, ugh. Not sure why that happened. Updated. Thanks for the tip,

I have to say this is a really feature rich browser and highly customizable.Besides the ui which is not so polished I am really impressed.
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Wow, great browser, thanks!

I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

Thanks for the link. Gonna give it a try.

i will also try it
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I'm trying too, thanks!

How are you guys liking it?!

Awsome..its lightning fast..thnx
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grigoris_a said:
I have to say this is a really feature rich browser and highly customizable.Besides the ui which is not so polished I am really impressed.
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Im going to have to try it!

i will also try it

Been giving it a try.
First impressions nice and fast, highly customizable and like others have stated the UI could do with a bit of work but overall I'm impressed.
Autocorrected from my EVO 3D running CM 10.1 / Fleksy Beta

i will try it
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Thanks, will most definitely look into it!

ill try it

try it after 5 minutes that's pretty and fast i think

THAT'S the browser I was looking for years!

opera is the best
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