OPERA MOBILE ANDROID BROWSER AND FUNCTIONAL TEXT REFLOW

Time for me to get back on the “text reflow” rant. Remember back in my iPhone days when I was constantly ragging on Apple for not building text reflow into the Safari browser? That was one of my biggest pet peeves and motivating factors that prompted me to make the switch to Android.

I mistakenly thought that the default internet browser for Android came with text reflow after toying with a friend’s Droid X smartphone. Come to find out, it was in the custom build of the operating system, not the native Android browser. Having text reflow depends on the type of smartphone you have.

So while I bashed Apple for not including reflow in the Safari browser, I incorrectly assumed that all Android devices have this built-in. They don’t.

But before you think I’m going to cut Apple some slack, I’m not. Even though text reflow isn’t built into the browser on my Samsung Galaxy S2 (which I’m ashamed of), there is a practical and highly functional solution. What is it, you ask?

It’s Opera Mobile for Android.

I downloaded and installed several browsers to my Galaxy S2 trying to find one that would give me dynamic text reflow (where you see the word cascading while you pinch zoom). I was not having much luck until I found the Opera browser. While it doesn’t dynamically reflow the text like the native Droid X browser does, it will resize it as large as you want. Upon double tapping, it will reflow it rather nicely.

When it comes to reading tech blogs or any other type of blog on my Android smartphone, Opera Mobile is invaluable. It very efficiently figures out the limits of the text, even on full websites that don’t have a mobile version. Scrolling is a snap, and reading is very easy on the eyes. I highly recommend Opera Mobile to anyone that does a lot of reading on their device.

You see, I would rather use my Galaxy S2 for reading rather than a tablet. With the ability to zoom in and enlarge the text and to reflow it within the limits of the display, there’s no need to have a larger device. The great thing about it is that a smartphone fits in one hand quite easily, so there’s not much strain in holding it for reading.

I had formerly considered getting an Android tablet device or a Barnes & Noble Nook Color, because of the fact that I do so much reading on the blogs. But really, I don’t have a need to do that with the display being so good on my Galaxy. Now that I have a browser that can handle reflow the way I want it, it’s going to foot the bill.

Something else that I like about Opera Mobile on my smartphone, it uses thumbnails for visual bookmarks. You can see that in the picture above. I’m a very visual person, so this makes calling up pages a lot faster because I will recognize a picture quite a bit faster than reading bookmarks.

The form, function, and flow of Opera Mobile is also very impressive. The buttons are easy to touch, and they are all well-spaced. Many of the mobile browsers on the market use microscopic navigation and functional buttons, and it makes it hard to “fat finger” them. Opera Mobile keeps them all big and simple, and easy to pluck off.

So that is why I am 100% satisfied with Opera Mobile on my Samsung Galaxy S2, even though the dander-heads should have built text reflow into the Internet Exploder browser that came on the device.

Do you have a favorite browser that you are using to surf the web on your Android device? Do you use your smartphone for lots of reading? If you do, I’d like to hear about it. Jump in the conversation!

Carlton Flowers
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TEXT REFLOW UPDATE – WILL APPLE SKIP THIS FEATURE IN IOS5?

You gotta know by now that I’m not going to get up off of the lack-of-text-reflow nag fest I have going on against Apple. I was motivated to write an update about this thanks to Jeffrey Koenig (who I improperly called “Jeff Koe” in my podcast) submitting such a great comment recently to my text reflow blog post that I originally wrote in September of 2010.

I bought my iPhone 4 in August of 2010. I soon discovered that iOS4 did not have text reflow, and I was sorely upset. Before I had my iPhone 3GS, I owned the crappy LG-Vu (a sad excuse for an iPhone alternative at the time) and it had text reflow. So I came into the Apple world fully knowledgeable about the great benefit of this feature. I would have been better off not knowing it existed.

In fact, after polling several of my friends who are fellow iPhone owners, I would say that 95% of them have no earthly idea that text reflow even exists. That wasn’t a good sign.

I’ve messed around with a couple of alternative browsers. They are great. One is the Mercury browser, and the other is the Atomic browser (click the links to read my blog posts about them).

Both of them allow you to change the text size, and they do actually reflow the text… sometimes. If a site is not coded correctly, you get spotty results. Either the lines of text will lose their font and start overlapping, they won’t increase in size, or they will still fly off the right side of the screen when you increase the size. But they are better than nothing.

But why should Apple iPhone owners have to put up with this when they could simply build this into the Safari browser itself? Why does Apple consider this a non-issue? How can this company boast of being on the top of the heap when it comes to smart phone technology and operating system functionality without this very basic and extremely useful feature?

The biggest disappointment to me is the fact that there are several people like myself that have poor vision but like to use their iPhones phones as reading devices. We are told that we don’t need to zoom in to increase text because we have a Retina display that is so amazingly clear that you can read microscopic text size with ease. I truly believe that the Apple geniuses who tout this crap think that we are either idiots, or just plain insensitive to our most basic needs.

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But the five-dollar question is…

WILL APPLE ADDRESS THIS IN IOS5?

Probably not. I’m not going to bet the farm on it. Matter of fact, I won’t even wager a wooden nickel. There’s too much at stake here. It would certainly damage their reputation to admit that they left out such an obvious simple feature that has been around on Android devices for years on end. They’ll sweep this under the rug like everything else and keep on moving (i.e. “antenna-gate”, fragile crack-prone design, etc.).

If Apple announces that the next iPhone will be the slightly improved but warmed-over “iPhone 4S” and not a completely redesigned unit with a larger screen, I am done. Same tiny screen size + no text reflow = FORGET IT.

Actually, I do sincerely hope they address this in iOS5. I haven’t heard anything, and I’d love someone to inform me if they have. If you are an iOS5 beta tester and you are aware that text reflow has been added to the Safari browser, PLEASE share this with me and give a solid reference. I want to know about it whether I make the switch to Android or not. I need closure on this.

If they don’t, I’m hanging up my hat on the fact that the powers-that-be (or geniuses-that-be) at Apple will continue to operate the ship with their heads in a warm, moist place.

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Carlton Flowers
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THE HIDDEN FRUSTRATION WITH APPLE’S IPAD THAT YOU DON’T OFTEN READ ABOUT…

It’s Spring of 2011, and the iPad 2 is flying off the shelves faster than they can be restocked. People line up and rush the stores as inventories appear. I’m still scratching my head wondering what it is that motivates people to buy this Flash-less device. Many people just buy them to consume content. To read. But there’s one thing missing from the iPad 2 that will prevent it from ever becoming a legitimate e-reader…

Text Reflow

We all know that Apple’s iPad 2 won’t let you get the best out of websites like Hulu, Yahoo mail browser, Myspace, Twitter, or Facebook game applications. I’ve ragged on this since the first “i-device” was released. But I’m getting more and more comments from new iPad 2 owners about the lack of Text Reflow. More and more people don’t understand the hard-headedness of Apple in failing to provide this simple feature.

I received a message from a person who wishes to remain anonymous who calls the lack of Text Reflow on her iPad “maddening“. Why? Because she wants to use it to show and read stories to children. When you zoom in on a page to increase the text size, you’ve got to pan sideways to display the sentences that shoot off the right side of the screen. That’s because the device does not have Text Reflow built in to the browser. I was asked by this reader why Apple seems to think this is not a significant feature, and I can’t provide an answer.

Another new iPad 2 owner wrote me and said that it is entirely frustrating that he purchased the device mainly for reading and checking email. The email client does not have Text Reflow. He zooms in on text because he has terrible vision, but is left doing the “pan side-to-side” game in order to read. He is so frustrated that he is considering returning the device.

Both users are aware that Android tablets have the Text Reflow feature built in to each and every application that allows text to be consumed. Want to zoom in close to ease up on reading? The browser and email client nicely re-formats the text, wrapping words down below, so that the only thing required is scrolling up and down. Not side-to-side.

I have written blog posts about the lack of Text Reflow on the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. Each time a new iPhone has been released, I have anxiously waited for the announcement that Text Reflow would be added as standard feature, just as it is in Android devices. The biggest and most valid complaint about the lack of Text Reflow exists for the iPhone due to the small size of the display. Therefore, you can honestly say that using an iPhone to consume text content is not practical.

But with an iPad, Apple at least has a valid answer to not providing this feature because the display is very large. But those that appreciate the manipulation of paragraph structure that is given by Text Reflow will disagree, no matter how large the screen is.

I still don’t personally understand why this has not been addressed by Apple devs, even though the topic is being discussed quite often on the Mac forums and other Apple product related websites. It’s a great feature that can be added with very little effort on Apple’s part. But they don’t value the input of customers that suffer from the frustration of its absence.

It shouldn’t surprise me that Apple won’t take this seriously, because from my experience, they would rather tell customers what they want and need instead of listening and providing real reasons why they won’t include such features. But I am still going to give Apple the benefit of the doubt, and I will fully expect that a representative will chime in and give us some insight on this.

I have surfed the Apple support website, and thus far I cannot find a good place to lodge a complaint about this or provide a suggestion for them to consider. Do you have any insight on how to get attention from Apple on listening to ideas and suggestions? I’d like to know. Right now, I’m thinking that the majority of Apple employees don’t even know what Text Reflow is, let alone why it doesn’t exist on their devices.

Carlton Flowers
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MERCURY BROWSER SOLVES LACK OF TEXT REFLOW ISSUE ON IPHONE

Forever searching for a better browser for my iPhone 4, I have gone back to a browser that I tried several months ago that recently got a serious upgrade! It’s called the Mercury Browser, and they have a free version along with a full-featured version for only 99 cents.

You all know about my beef with Apple and the lack of text reflow on the Safari browser. I recently wrote about the Atomic browser that has the text resizing feature that reflows text after selecting the “increase font size” button. It’s not dynamic reflow, but it gets by. The Mercury Browser recently updated their app and they now have the text resizing feature with reflow kicking in after you resize the text.

I like Mercury browser better than the Atomic browser. It’s half the price had has double the features. One of the best features besides reflowing the text would be the scroll bar on the right side. It is very convenient to have, and easy to use. The functionality impresses me for a smart phone browser, being that you are using it on such a small screen and it actually works.

Check out this browser in the App Store and download the free version to get a feel for what the browser can do. You might find yourself upgrading to the full version once you see how spiffy it is!

Carlton Flowers
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A WAY TO GET TEXT REFLOW ON AN IPHONE… SORT OF

You all know that lack of text reflow on the iPhone Safari Browser is a serious bone of contention with me. For those of you that are not aware of it, text reflow is the fantastic feature that allows the text to be re-wrapped downward when you zoom in on the text of an article on a website. Safari browser does not do this.

To the contrary, Apple thinks its a great idea to have sentences fly off the right side of the screen when you zoom in, forcing you to have to pan side to side just to read. For people that use their iPhones heavily as a reading device, this is a major annoyance.

The Android browser dynamically reflows the text when you pinch to zoom in on an article. Some people don’t have the best vision, like myself, and they like to increase the size of text when reading. Sure, Apple claims that the Retina Display eliminates the need for increasing text size, but the geniuses at Apple headquarters weren’t smart enough to realize that microscopic font sizes, no matter how “crisp and clear”, are still not readable. That’s why text reflow is so important to people who are not blessed with 20/20 vision.

Well, I was about to chunk my iPhone 4 and sell it to the highest bidder on eBay and replace it with an Android device until I found the Atomic Web Browser for iOS devices. Someone on a forum made my day when they discovered my constant nagging about the lack of text reflow, and they pointed me in the direction of this 99-cent browser. So I purchased it immediately, and I am extremely happy!

Atomic Browser does not have automatic or dynamic text reflow. However, it will allow you to increase or decrease the font size of an article, and it will reflow the text upon resizing. It will not activate reflow when you pinch to zoom, but this is close enough to get me by! I have been reading like a mad man on my iPhone 4 ever since purchasing this browser. Sure, text reflow does not work very well on non mobile-compliant sites (which Apple claims as a reason for not allowing it… lame!), but most of the sites that I read on, mainly Gizmodo Mobile version, are compliant.

With text reflow, I can increase the font to a large size, and then flick the page down and read at a rapid rate. Why? Because you don’t have that pesky sideways panning, nor do you have to wait for graphics to reload every time you pan over to catch the extra 4′ of sentences that are off the edge of the screen. It is liberating, and I love it.

This does not by any means let Apple off the hook. Actually, it makes me even more upset to know that something as simple as this could be added to the Safari browser with relative ease. It’s a feature that would not cost five minutes of time for one of the iOS programmers to fix, and they could roll out a minor update to activate it.

My advice to Apple? Start treating your loyal customers like you care. Take the easy requests like this one and knock them out. Basically, quit making excuses and get ‘er done.

Carlton Flowers
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THINGS I THINK WOULD MAKE THE IPHONE INVINCIBLE

Continuing on with my love-hate relationship with my Apple iPhone 4, I’d like to share with you the changes and additions to the iPhone that I believe would make it a world-dominating device (not that it already isn’t!). As the saying goes, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

There are many things I wish Apple would do improvement-wise on their top device that would add to my satisfaction. But at the same time, there really isn’t another smart phone on the market that fills in these gaps without taking away other fundamental features at the same time. So for now, I’m stuck with this thing.

But back to the story, here are the things I wish my iPhone had, some pet peeves, and suggested changes that would certainly help Apple continue to rule the roost when it comes to smart phones… and here they are:

1. Text Reflow - this is the biggest annoyance that I have with the iPhone. Zoom in on an article and the sentences fly off the sides of the screen. You have to pan back and forth, many times being forced to wait for the screen to redraw all of the graphics, just to read an article in a large font size. They claim the “Retina Display” is so super fine that you can’t see pixels, so there is no need increase text size. This doesn’t make one hill of beans difference to a person who has poor eyesight. I don’t care if the screen had 1920 by 1280 resolution… what good is it on a 3.5″ display? I can’t read printed ink in the maximum font size that my iPhone allows when you double tap to zoom in on an article without forcing the words off the left or right side of the screen. Android devices have Text Reflow, which basically re-wraps the words down beneath so you never have to pan side-to-side to read an article. For nearly blind people like me, I can zoom in on an article and make the font size so big that it only fits one or two words per line, and all I have to do is scroll straight down to quickly read that article.

This is an easy fix. The developers could have this solved over a cup of coffee. But what is sad is the fact that the techs at Apple don’t even know what Text Reflow IS, much less thinking about adding it to the Safari browser. 99% of iPhone owners that I have spoken to have no clue of what Text Reflow is either. This is probably due to the newness of the feature, and that most Android users are not prior iOS fans.

Text Reflow is the deal-breaker for me and my iPhone. If Apple gave me this one gift, I would overlook each and every other shortcoming with the device. I have waited since the 2nd generation iPhone for reflow, and thus far we haven’t even gotten to the awareness point. If Text Reflow is not incorporated into iOS4 by the time my contract with AT&T is up, I’m switching to Verizon.

2. Flash Support - We aren’t going to beat this dead horse. It is a known fact that Steve Jobs has openly declared war on Adobe, and he’s not going to budge on disallowing Flash for iOS devices. They toyed around with the idea of allowing flash-based apps 2 years ago, but we know how that ended. They have good reason to ban flash. It could allow a work-around for the iTunes store, which is a revenue stream they have to protect.

Their reasoning? They believe the world should stick with the open standard of HTML5. While I agree that we should push for the standardization of the web, it’s going to take a long time (if ever) for Flash to disappear from the web. Until then, I can’t view some of my favorite Flash-based sites from my Apple device like NFL.com, and Quansite.com. This very blog post that I am writing comes from an amazing service (Quansite) that is Flash-based. I want the ability to use this site on my mobile devices. But this is not going to ever become a reality if I stick with Apple. But we’ll just leave this one alone.

3. iPhone 4’s Antenna - I have taped up m iPhone 4 to prevent signal loss from touching the wide band of metal that surrounds the device which serves as an antenna. Yes, I did order my free case from Apple which would solve this problem, but the Speck case that I ordered was broken within 3 weeks (cheap crap). The iPhone 4 is the world’s thinnest smart phone. That’s really cool. But what good is it if you have to put a case or bumper on it to make it work right?

I was shocked at the level of denial by Steve Jobs over the antenna issue. He just flat-out denied that it was happening. I wish Steve would come to my house and sit next to me while I hold this phone in the way that he dictates so he can see that the reception still goes straight out the window no matter what. His denial doesn’t make my reception get any better. What it boils down to is the simple fact that this phone is not a finished usable product as it is right out of the box.

4. SWYPE - This is just a wish that will never get fulfilled. SWYPE is the most amazing innovation to hit smart phones since the first buttonless touch screen. You can enter text at a rate of up to 50 words per minute using SWYPE, and it just seems like a natural way to enter data. I’m fairly impressed at the accuracy of SWYPE on correctly predicting what I am wanting to input into the device. Maybe Apple could come up with something similar, but I see this feature as one that will be swept underneath the rug for a few years by the Apple geniuses.

5. The Glass Sandwich - This great looking phone owes its aesthetic appeal to two glass layers that are prone to breaking. As time goes on, it becomes more and more of an issue. These phones are just too fragile. I’ve already cracked my front digitizer. I’m one of many people who have crunched their displays from drops that are not that violent. Sure, you can buy a big fat Otterbox to protect your fragile investment, but what good is it to have the “world’s thinnest smart phone” device if you have to add an inch of protective rubber all around the phone? Being the thinnest is rendered useless when the phone is so breakable that you can’t operate it or transport it without an ironclad protective suit. I need a manly phone that will continue to work when it is snatched down to concrete when my headphones get snagged on my car’s rear view mirror. One that has the extra Otter Box capability actually built in to the phone. Wouldn’t that be genius?

6. Small Display - Ok so call me old school, but I like a phone that fits my fat face. If it were up to me, I’d have a smart phone that was shaped like the original Bell Telephone handset. Yeah, that big curvy chunky thing that molds to your jaw. It would have a 6″ color display stuck to the outside of the handle too. Remember those bag phones? Well I had one. And I loved it. That’s what a phone should feel like when you put it up to your face, not like these dinky little credit-card size things that you stick in your ear that don’t fit.

It cracks me up hearing people say that phones like the Droid X and Evo 4G are “too big”. Whatever! I say BIGGER IS BETTER. I have bad eyesight. Staring at this tiny 3.5″ screen just makes me mad! Give me a big fat honking 7″ smart phone and I will carry it around in a bag phone style carrying case, and I’ll attach a spiral-corded handset and look like I did back in the day.

All that said, the iPhone 4 is still the king of the hill when it comes to smart phones. I looked on the AT&T site to try to pick another smart phone and just realized that none of them have a front-facing camera. GACK! Now that I have my front-facing camera, which happens to be one of the features I have waited 2 years to see, I can’t go back. I’m going to have to put up with all of these missing wish-list items and shortcomings until someone comes up with a smart phone that is hitting on all 4 cylinders. Who knows… maybe that perfect phone will be the iPhone 4G next year.

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APPLE IPHONE 4 FEATURES “TEXT NO-FLOW” TO HELP YOU READ EAZIER

One thing I am really excited about is how Apple pays attention to every little detail on their breakthrough products, especially on the iPhone. I bought my iPhone mainly to be able to read information on the web. That’s why I am so happy that Steve Jobs has my best interest in mind when he came up with the genius idea to add “text no-flow” to the Safari browser.

It is simply amazing. Most people are not even aware that the iPhone can do this. It’s really easy to use it, too. All you have to do is go to one of your favorite blogs or news sites. If you have bad vision like me, just zoom on in and make the words bigger. Here’s where the amazing feature will kick in like magic! Instead of wrapping the words down to the next line like that crappy Android 2.2 Froyo browser and all the cheap imitation junky plastic phones that the sell with that sad excuse for an operating system on them, the cutting edge iPhone browser will simply shove the words off the right side of the screen so you don’t have to worry about them!

Reading is SO much easier with Text No-Flow. When I zoom in far enough where I can actually read the words on my Retina Display iPhone, my magical Safari browser will automatically get rid of the majority of those pesky words where I don’t even have to figure out what they said in the first place. But when I get extra-nosy, and I just HAVE to know what those words were that went flying off the right side, allz I gots to do is easily pan from side to side to read them fancy long words that the browser done got rid for me. What’s great is the fact that a lot of times, it gots to re-draw all those pictures every single time I try to pan over to see that sentence.

That lets me know that it really isn’t important to see all those extra details after I zoom in. It cuts down on my total reading time when I let the Safari browser shove the words off the right side of the screen. You think this doesn’t work? Test it yourself! Read a 1,000-word document on iPhone, and then on an Android phone. Zoom in and make the words equally huge. You will then notice that stupid Android will save all those extra words by doing a carriage return every singe time they try to go off the right side of the screen. That forces you to read the entire article. But the iPhone’s smart word system (TM) which is the base of Text No-Flow will get the majority of the words shoved off the right side of the screen so you never ever have to worry about them again!

In the end, it looks like a clear win for Apple and “Text No-Flow” versus the inept Android 2.2 and “Text Reflow”. Sorry Android, better luck next time. Maybe you’ll think twice next time when you try to come up with something fancy that Steve Jobs tells us we obviously don’t need.

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TEXT REFLOW SEEMS STANDARD FOR ANDROID OS… WHY NOT iOS4?

“Text Reflow”, or the function of word wrapping text when you zoom in on an article using your smart phone browser, seems to be a normal feature on Android smart phones these days. But this is lacking on the iPhone iOS4 platform. I am a heavy article reader, and I rely on my iPhone 4 to keep up-to-date with trends within the fields that I do business.

A major annoyance to me is the need to scroll horizontally to read articles when zooming in using the Apple’s Safari browser. When I pick up an Evo 4G or a Droid X, the text automatically re-wraps itself beautifully when you zoom in on an article or document. This is especially handy for those that like to speed read. In fact, you can download several programs on the net that basically provide the function of flashing text in groups of 2 or 3 words at a time to facilitate rapid reading. When you zoom in using an Android device, you can increase the text size as much as you want and it will reformat the text to allow vertical reading. You can easily flick down the page and rapidly read any article much faster than you could be scrolling sideways.

The folks over at Apple seem to think that text reflow is not necessary because the Retina display is so clear that you don’t need to zoom in on text to ease reading. I don’t understand this argument, and I think it’s an excuse to get around the fact that the Android platform has outdone iOS4 in this one single area. It doesn’t matter how clear the screen might be. If you can’t read tiny text on a printed document because of poor eyesight, you’re not going to be able to read it on a Retina display either. So you are left to zooming in to a decent size, and having to scroll back and forth horizontally to get through an article. It is very cumbersome to say the least.

Text reflow is almost a deal-breaker for me. I absolutely love my iPhone 4, but I would consider trying to get out of my contract and sell my device just to be able to have a device that I could use to speed read information in the manner that text reflow allows. I’m not a programming expert or software developer, but I would have to assume that this is an easy fix (or addition) for the Apple developers. In order to stay ahead of the competitors (who seem to be catching up rapidly), why not put the Apple ego aside and get this done?

I have started a blog page dedicated to drumming up support for text reflow on iOS4. If you are an iPhone user and you see the benefit of having text reflow for reading purposes, please click on the link and post a response on my blog page. I want my iPhone 4 to be my primary reading device, and I’ll do just about anything to have this feature!

Carlton Flowers
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UPDATE! I have found a temporary solution to the text reflow issue with the Safari browser! Read about it in my latest blog post here:

http://carltonzone.com/blog/quasi-text-reflow-on-an-iphone/

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