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Most of us who bought or hope to buy a smartwatch consider the wrist wearables to be accessories to our smartphones which cancel the need for us to  pull our smartphones everytime someone sends a text or notification while on the go .Although smartwatches are "smart" considering that they can control the tethered smartphone via bluetooth , none of the current crop of smartwatches are smart enough to beat Samsungs phone-on-a-wrist smartwatch - aka Samsung Gear S .The gear s has all the basic "phone" features and it even has its own appstore a-la Tizen . With basic features such as phone , messaging and now even a 3rd party browser via Opera Mini makes the watch a all in one micro-smartphone . The Opera Mini browser - or should we call it "Opera Micro"   is said to be optimized to finger presses on the 2" display . The Opera browser has some features such as speed dial that can save most visited pages , the app is available on the Gear App Store which...

Amazon’s Silk web browser, which comes built into Kindle Fire devices, has received its first major upgrade since September 2012, the company announced today. Though there have been steady under-the-hood improvements over time, this is the first release since last fall to introduce consumer-facing changes to the way the browser looks and behaves, including a new tutorial, redesigned tabs, better browser controls, simpler navigation options, and easier access to Silk’s Reading View feature. One of the new features rolling out today has to do with how Silk appears to first-time users. Like many apps do today, the browser now launches with a brief tutorial to explain its features. Instead of screens you have to swipe through, Silk adopts the “overlay” interface which darkens the background to point out various navigational buttons like the Action Menu, Reading View, and Left Panel slider, for example, which is where users can view their Most Visited pages, Bookmarks, and History. Bu...