· Bitmap Font - Using the unique “Bitmap Font” you can now enjoy reading pages in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Hindi, even if your phone doesn’t support these languages.
· Greater Languages Support - Bengali is now supported.
· Various Bug Fixes - E.g. automatically reinitializing browser
· Fast Video and Audio Playing: We have designed the Fast Video and Audio Playing feature to break through storage limitation and poor network connection. The new feature allows users to play video files that have been saved to UDisk directly, without having to download those big files to local phone storage. Enjoy the fluent videos watching on Java Phone.
· Account Information Saving: To make logging-in to your favourite webpages more convenient, we’ve added the ability for you to save usernames and passwords on several websites, such as Facebook and GMail.
· Improved User Interface: We’ve given our user interface a makeover, optimizing the design to provide an enhancement of user experience. The menus, night mode, operation in touch screen phones and more has been optimized.
· Bug Fixes: The stability of this version has been increased and there have been numerous bug fixes, such as a solution to the missing Speed Dial issue.
· Incognito Browsing: For your convenience and privacy, when you activate Incognito Browsing your browsing history will not be recorded while it’s active.
· Improved Search Bar: The search bar is now better than ever, with tabbed search engines and a drop-down menu offering your previously search terms as you type your query into the search box. This allows you to quickly switch between different search engines for different content, like between YouTube and IMDB, and get more relevant search suggestions.
· Select and Copy: The Select and Copy function has been enhanced, allowing you to see how many characters you are selecting in real time. This can help with sharing content where character limits are an issue, such as on Twitter and when sending an SMS.
· Optimized Text Input: Better support for inputting non-English text and for inputting text via Java phones with QWERTY and virtual keypads.
Fixed bugs:
· The "next" button gives no response when using "find in page" on touch phones.
· Can't save picture in some cases.
· Some websites cannot be opened (e.g. m.youtube.com, m.google.com).
· User Interface problems in night mode.
· Download list disappears.
· Download speed for large files has been improved. For large files the speed increased 2 times than previous;
· Create customized shortcut keys for webpages and actions;
· Settings menu interface has been optimized;
· Added the ability to share on Twitter;
· Improved File Manager with the ability to preview images and create folders;
Fixed bugs:
· Can't choose input history on touch phone;
· Can't login UDisk on SonyEricsson phone;
· Downloading list of UDisk missing when restarting UC Browser;
· Only part of image can be shown on File Manager if the image is bigger than screen;
· Menu has no response when the image is not loaded completely;
· Can't save proxy server configuration.
· Smart account manager: Users can switch between multiple accounts when signing in a website.
· Convenient to use Actions menu: Long press OK button to invoke Actions menu.
· Easy to save pages: User can save pages directly without changing the page name.
· Quick Reads - the best RSS reader.
· Cloud Synchronization - by synchronizing your bookmarks through cloud synchronization, they will always be there, wherever you are, whenever you want.
· Smoother - Although this version is larger than the last version, it runs much more smoothly with low memory and optimization.
· Convenient sharing - UC Browser is bringing the sharing function back! (Menu>Actions>Share>By Facebook). Share everything you want to at the first instant.
· Easy search - With the ‘Find in page’ function (Menu>Tools>Find in page) , you can locate keywords quickly and the search does not differentiate between capital or lower case letters.
· Shortcuts for QWERTY phones - Shortcuts are designed especially for QWERTY phones, allowing users to have a much more efficient experience when surfing the web.
· Beautiful looks - Beauty is not the patent of iPhone or Android phones, Java phones could also make it. The classical black gives you a cool tech style.
· More efficient - Optimized the interface layout and menus, you can find the useful features easily.
· Magical action function - When you operate on Windows via PC, it's convenient to choose what you want in the right mouse button menu. The right mouse button in different places shows different popup menus. In the same philosophy, UC Browser knows what you want when you stop at a place and gives the most convenient options to choose.
· Auto Notification between night mode and day mode.
· Bookmarks backup.
· More languages.
· More Pic formats are supported. The new WebP image is near 40% smaller than jpeg image of similar quality.
· Fixed access connection timeout error: Fixed timeout problem during webpage browsing.
· Fixed image loading failure: Fixed timeout error in loading image.
· Optimized Cache management: Cache will be adjusted automatically. You don’t need to reset and clear Cache manually anymore.
· “View Image” Mode: There are lots of images filled in the internet world, mainly aims to attract users’ attention. However, the widely welcomed image content in PC is not such attractive in mobile handset. Due to the size & quality of the image and the network condition, to view the image in handset is not so easy and in good experienced compare to PC. Thanks to the UC Browser 7.8, all these problems solved, with the new function of “View Image” mode, users can get the similar experience in their handset as what they do in PC to view image easily.
· Compared to UC Browser 7.7, the speed for browsing increased again for about 30%.
· UC Browser for Java supports “remember current page” & “clear all browser history” operation, close tab with right bottom, open the “menu” operation while loading page, to make more smooth operation in low level handset.
· Faster Than Ever Before
· GUI Optimization
· New Social Element for Java & WM
· Thumbnail When you Upload Photos
· Traffic Check
· Search Box Optimization
· WLAN Automatic Switch
· Better Page Display with full support of WAP2.0 standard.
· Enhanced Performance Up to 30% Increase.
· Cursor Mode as Default.
· My Shortcut – visit your favor sites by one click.
· New Start Page Design for better display and more sites.
· Improved Feedback to make your voice heard by UC Team.
· Country Select Page at first time start.
· Localized Start Page for different countries for Java platform.
· Developed user experience with faster speed.
· Intelligent websites address input mechanism added based on local website address grammar.
· Share websites with friends by SMS.
· WEB UA & WAP UA can be selected to help you access to your preferred website format.
· Abundant themes made by UC Team are available to download.
· Optimized cursor mode
· Capture and upload function to bring you more fun in SNS.
· Fixed the problem that some JAVA phones cannot get access to internet with WAP APN.
· Fixed the problem that blank screen happens to some websites.
New features:
· New year, new skin, sending the first Tiger Tiger, UC with your New Year a good mood
· bookmarks, support for multi-level directory, categorized and structured
· picture upload, camera, anytime, anywhere, who want to make the film (only supports S40 models)
· bookmarks synchronized increase button, a button click, convenient and quick
Function Optimization:
· touch-screen optimization, think about where on where to;
· optimizing images selected results, help you identify the focus of the current location;
· file management optimization, the first sort and then display the file folder;
· URL input box support for about recycling, moving more flexible;
Fix the problem:
· wap network automatically logs the starting point exception
· open transit, can not query the Han Code Dictionary
· some mobile phone access QQ Alert "networking approach does not support"
· re-edit the contents of the clipboard inside, there will be part of the contents missing
· the link can not be selected on the NetEase
· Jinjiang original charges novel VIP network, the directory can not be selected
Full English Start Page:
· This time UC 7.1 with fully English Start Page with all Cool Recommended Sites similar as Official English version of 7.0.
English Server:
· Changed default server to English server to enjoy access blocked sites in Chinese server.
User Agent Fixed:
· Use Advanced UA if UC browser redirecting you to mobile version of sites. Fixed UA as always with 2 two different value. You can select them in Preference- System Settings- UA. Here you can select Advanced UA 1 or 2 for Mozilla or Opera UA.
Added .in with .net .org Extensions:
· I've added .in extension for easy work. Before you see the .cn and other useless only. For exp when type mannuforall. in address bar it'll show hints to add .in, .cn, .net and .org.
Added Some Useful Bookmarks:
· Now added some useful bookmarks in place of default Chinese bookmarks. For GMail and Google English versions and UC English forum and download page.