Although a lot of browsers initially plied their trade on desktop, today’s mobile-centric world sees the likes of Chrome and Firefox used extensively by smartphone and tablet owners. While Google and Mozilla’s efforts are among the most popular, there are plenty of other respectable browsers out there, and with Opera being another fairly big name in this field, the company has just released a new using for Apple’s iPad by the name of ‘Coast.’
One mistake some developers make is to simply augment an iphone app for use with iPad, rather than upscale it proportionally. The smartphone and the tablet are two very different types of device, and seeing as lots of of us hold and use them differently, there’s maybe nothing a lot more cumbersome than trying to use a tablet app that feels as if it was built for a smartphone.
Luckily, Opera has taken its time to make sure coast is optimized for comfortable use on the larger-displaying device. It’s very much a gesture-based experience, allowing you to flit through pages and content with relative ease, and is actually rather smooth to use.
When it pertains to browser switching, folks are typically as partisan as they are with consoles, or brands of smartphone. having said that, you’ll never know if coast suits your needs better than your current setup unless you download and give it a try.
The gesture-based experience bears vague resemblance to Flipbook, arguably the best example of how an app’s interface must look and feel, and although we’re not quite ready to ditch Chrome just yet here at Redmond Pie, we’re absolutely keeping coast on standby for those times when Google’s browser doesn’t want to play ball.
The app is, as a lot of browsers tend to be, complimentary of charge, and can be downloaded ideal now from the app store link we’ve supplied below. It’s simple, clean and minimalistic, so if you’re trying to find a easy Web-surfing experience, you must absolutely give it a try.
If you’re not a big fan of Opera, then be sure to check out Chrome for iOS instead, which uses terrific cross-platform syncing across devices.
(Download: coast for iPad on the app Store)
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