Link Bubbles Changes the Mobile Web Browsing Experience – APP OF THE WEEK
When you compare web browsing on desktop and mobile, there is striking difference in the experience. On your desktop, you can click on a link your browser happily creates a new tab for that page, and you can just continue looking at something else while that page loads. You also have the convenience to look at the page later by keeping that new tab open. When it comes to mobile, you click on a link and you are taken completely out of what ever app you are in, and your browser takes over your phone. No tabs involved, just you waiting there for the page to load, and then you can go back to what ever you were looking at perviously once you are done with that page. Well Chris Lacy to the rescue, as he has created a very innovative app that kind of takes a page out of Paranoid Android’s book when it came to HALO, and brings us Link Bubbles.
What Link Bubbles will do for you, is make those tabs happen in mobile, but of course they are not called tabs they are called bubbles. When you click on a link, a bubble appears on the left side of your screen, spinning as it loads your new page. As the page is loading, you can continue on looking at other things on your phone, like for instance your Twitter or Google + feeds. Then once the page is loaded, you can click on the bubble and an overlay window opens up and you can treat it like the typical web browser on your device. You also have the option of having multiple Link Bubbles, but you have to pay for the pro version.
Lacy also added the options to either share your link very quickly by holding down the bubble and dragging it to the share bubble, or to an app you have selected in the settings. You can also save the link for later, just in case you didn’t have time to take a look at it in that moment.
Overall, this is a great app, and I even suggest forking over the $5 for the pro version. Yes, it seems a bit steep to pay that much for an app, but it is well worth it, and Lacy deserves it for the hard work he does. If you want to see the app in action, check out my video run-through below. Let us know if you downloaded it and how much you enjoy it. How were we able to browse without it?
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