One of my favorite browsers on Android is now available on the iPhone! Dolphin Browser, a third-party app that includes features like gestures and sidebars, has managed to raise $10 million from Sequoia, a venture capital funding group that is considered one of the Silicon Valley's "most influential venture-capital firms" by the Wall Street Journal. Dolphin Browser is built upon the WebKit browser -- just like Safari -- and offers a streamlined mobile browsing experience for the iPhone. The app includes the aforementioned sidebars, and gestures, plus multiple tab support, easy sharing to Facebook and Twitter, a nifty start page a la Google Chrome and Safari, and Webzine, a dynamic, Flipboard-style way to read your favorite sites.

Unfortunately, there is no way to enable add-ons/extensions in the mobile browser, as made popular by the Dolphin Browser on the Android platform. Apple's many restrictions means that kind of third-party tweaking is not okay. After all, that's what Android's good for, right? Complete customization and hackery of your mobile phone, and the ability to screw it up as you please (and get screwed, as is the case when dealing with Android's many spam apps). For those of you who enjoy the safety of the Walled Garden, that also includes the inability tack on an extension to your mobile browser. And so it goes.

The app is free and now available in the iTunes App Store.