The mobile web browser scene is hotting up providing competition to Opera Mini. Last week I had covered Teashark, a new mobile browser that had introduced some nice features such as bookmark sync with PC, autocomplete, sliding between history and instant text search like Firefox. Now both have competetion in the form of UCWeb, a mobile browser made by a Chinese company.

UCWeb is a free Java J2ME based mobile browser for MIDP 2.0 compatible mobile devices such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Siemens and Windows Mobile (with Java support). It supports some unique features such as an inbuilt email-client with webmail (Yahoo, Live Hotmail, GMail, AIM, etc) support, audio and video multimedia player, push SMS, offline content saving, clipboard, traffic statistics and multi-threaded download manager.

Here are some of the key features of UCWeb for Java J2ME:

+ Compression upto 80%
+ Configurable User-Agent

+ Data traffic statistics to count the data traffic of your browsing or file downloads
+ Push SMS
+ In built email with support for webmail accounts such as Live Hotmail, GMail Yahoo and AOL.
+ RSS reader
+ Save webpages for offline viewing

+ Clipboard to copy and paste URL into address bar and three additional options such as copy selected text, copy displaying text in current, and copy all the text in current window.
+ Multi-threaded download manager with resume capabilities
+ Upto ten tabs can be opened from one window

+ Autocomplete history from previously typed URLs

+ User-defined text size and row space
+ Rotate screen from portrait to landscape mode and vice versa
+ Backlight brightness adjustment, user-defined backlight timer
+ Auto-Refresh
+ Configurable image quality; Picture Intelligent optimization display
+ Supports Zoom in and out with Full Screen support
+ Preview many types of email attachmens such as doc, pdf, ppt, xls, zip, rar, txt, html, eml
+ Supports playing audio and video file formats including mid, wav, amr, mp and mpeg
+ Page transition effects
+ Open duplicate window for current webpage and view page properties

Download UCWeb for Java J2ME directly from your mobile browser at wap.ucweb.com