Hands On With Opera Mobile 12 For Symbian and Android

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Last week, Opera Software released Opera Mobile 12.0 for Android 1.6 and up and for Symbian 3rd edition FP1 and later. Here’s a rundown of the new features in Opera Mobile 12 as well as my impressions using the new browser on both platforms. New Features on both Android and Symbian: The Start Page (image below, left) has been redesigned. Now it can store and handle more than 9 speed dials. To make adding Speed Dials easier, a new “Add … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 7.0, aka “Next” – What’s New, What’s Improved and What’s Broken

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Opera Mini Next on Android: 15 Speed Dials and pixel perfect rendering of the WSJ Yesterday Opera Software released new versions on Opera Mobile for Android 1.6 and up and for Symbian 3rd edition and later as well as new Opera Mini releases for for iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android 1.5 and up, Symbian 2nd edition and latter, Java ME and BlackBerry OS. In this post I’m going to focus on the new Opera Mini release. Read on for detailed … Continue reading →

Fortune Magazine’s Hidden Mobile Blogs

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

The prestigious global business magazine Fortune stands proudly on the newsstand, the only brand vissible on its cover is the Fortune name in a large font. Fortune’s iPad app also flies the magazine’s logo big and bold on its start page It’s different on the Web. When you type the URL fortune.com into your browser you are redirected to money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/. The logo at the top of the page is that of CNNMoney with the Fortune’s name below it. That kind … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 11.5 for Nokia N9, N950 Released

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Yesterday, Opera Software released an official Opera Mobile build for the Nokia N9 and N950 Harmattan phones. It’s available from the Nokia Store or as a deb package download from Opera. Compared with the 3rd party modified version of Opera Mobile 11 for MeeGo that’s been available for sometime, this one offers the following improvements: Upgrade to Opera Mobile 11.5 Auto-rotation support (in all four orientations) Buttons near the bottom edge of the screen behave properly The Internet connection dialog will … Continue reading →

Going to MWC? Find All the Parties With the MWC 2102 Parties Webapp

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

If you’re going to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week it’s likely that you want to take in some of the many parties. To make sure don’t miss any of them, bookmark mob.is.it/m/4 in your phone browser. It’s a cross-device mobile webapp that lists loads of MWC parties with all the important details like time and place and a link to the party host’s information and sign up page. There’s an overview map of Barcelona showing all the parties and … Continue reading →

Latest Social Update Fixes the Nokia Belle “Feature Not Available” Sharing Bug

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Update 22-Feb-2012: Nokia has released an update to the Social app that fixes the Sharing bug described below. A hard reset is no longer needed as updating Social restores the abilitity to share images from the Gallery to Twitter and Facebook. To install the update eithr run Software Update on the phone or use Nokia Suite’s Phone Update feature. Updating my Nokia N8 to Belle went pretty smoothly. I didn’t encounter the any of the email sync or unresponsive UI issues that … Continue reading →

Natural Language Calendar and To-Do List Coolendar’s Slick Cross Platform Webapp

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dennis Bournique

Coolendar is a deceptively simple looking cloud based calendar and to-do list that’s very easy and intitive to use. You add entries (Coolendar calls them “Plans”) by typing into a single free form field in Coolendar’s iPhone or Android native apps or their Webapp. Coolendar’s natural language query processor looks for date or time related cues in entries like “Move the car tomorrow” or “Friday 9AM planning meeting” and makes them calendar entries. Items without dates or times are treated … Continue reading →

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