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If you've followed our coverage of Fennec,?the open source mobile browser that Mozilla is developing, you know that it promises to deliver quite a few innovative features. Mozilla has now delivered Beta 1 of Fennec, for use on Maemo-running Nokia Internet Tablets. JKOnTheRun offers up some good analysis of the first beta, including a video showing the slick interface features. The browser offers some of the best features found in Firefox: things like the Awesome Bar functionality, multiple tabs, and remembering passwords. The browser will also support Mozilla?s Weave platform, which synchronizes personal browsing data across multiple devices and even Flash video like that found on YouTube, they report. Check out their thoughts and the video. Even in its first beta version, Fennec looks pretty awesome--possibly a game-changer.

Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of open source mobile solutions company Funambol, has a post up called The next sync: app sync. In it, he discusses sync features working out in the cloud, so that your status in any given application is carried across all your devices. As people increasingly work with hosted applications, more sophisticated mobile synching is indeed going to be required. Mozilla, Funambol and other players are at work on this idea, as are proprietary players. The results may be promising.