If You Can’t Wait For Cupcake (Part 2, Steel)

Steel is an alternative web browser for Android with a few very cool added features over the standard Android browser. The description from their website pretty much sums it up perfectly:

Steel offers a new, touch-friendly user interface to the Android browser engine. It supports auto-rotation, full screen browsing, a virtual keyboard, advanced touch controls for zooming and flipping through multiple windows. Steel provides full integration with the Android platform. It can be made the default browser, it opens multi-media files in the appropriate viewers, and supports downloads of arbitrary files (videos, mp3, playlists,…) from the web.

After testing out Steel for a few days, I am definately impressed. The on-screen keyboard is very nice in landscape or portrait modes. The auto-rotate is snappy and works even on phones without root access. Some of the gestures take a little bit of getting used to, but a swipe to the right instead of hitting a back button, for example, seems like second-nature after using Steel for a while.


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