Nokia Connects has published a comparison between two Symbian browsers; Opera Mini 6.5 and MiniBrowser Mobile 4.0 PLUS that Izzy from Nokia For Us and I collaborated on. The post includes videos of both browsers in action including a speed test comparing Opera Mini with the Nokia browser and an in-depth walk through of MiniBrowser Mobile 4.0 PLUS. Read the full post here: Nokia Connects: Nokiapp Showdown #5 – browsers
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
Opera Software has released important bug fix upgrades for the Symbian versions of both Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile11.5. The updates fixs a bug that caused both browsers to lock up if Opera Link bookmark synchronization was enabled. There are some other fixes including one where deleting pre-installed search engines did not “stick”. The change-log is below: Added predictive text input and language choice in search field Fixed issues with browser freezing Fixed issues with browser when Opera Link … Continue reading
Opera Software rolled up updates to both Opera Mobile and Opera Mini today. Opera Mini 6.5, which was released for Android 3 weeks ago, is now available for Java ME, Symbian 2nd edition and latter, Apple iOS and BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 and latter. Opera Mobile 11.5, which also first appeared on Android three weeks ago, was released today for Symbian 3rd edition FP1 and latter. The iOS release is available in iTunes. Java, BlackBerry and Symbian versions can be downloaded from opera.com/mobile/download/ (desktop) or … Continue reading
This week the popular presentation sharing site SlideShare launched a mobile Webapp. Which is something I’m really excited about. If you’re ever clicked a link in Twitter or an email using your mobile browser or iPad and found yourself on Slideshare’s old non-mobile friendly Flash based site I think you will welcome the change too. According to SlidesShare the new mobile site supports the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The images above show it running on an HTC Magic phone running … Continue reading
Nokia’s latest Symbian Phones, the Nokia 700 and 701 have started to ship and are already for sale in Thailand and possibly elsewhere. These phones are running Belle, the latest iteration of the Symbian OS. As there are leaked copies of Belle firmware for the Nokia N8 floating around on the Web so many Nokia power users are also already runing the OS. However, Belle users who are also fans of Opera’s mobile browsers got a nasty surprise when they … Continue reading
I covered Google Blogger’s Beta mobile page templates in depth when they were rolled out last January. They work well and look great and go a long way toward making the often unruly Blogger sites usable with a mobile browser. At that time I lamented that the only iPhones and bada and Android devices were detected and served the mobile formatted pages. You can force Blogger to use the mobile template by appending ?m=1 to the end of the URL of any page … Continue reading
While there aren’t as many apps available for Symbian as there are for iOS and Android, I’ve always been able to find everything I need for my Symbian phones. Here are the apps I like and use on the E6 that WOMWorld/Nokia has loaned me. All are free except for Gravity: Gravity needs no introduction for most Symbian users. It’s a beautifully designed, highly intuitive and immensely powerful client for Twitter, Facebook, Identica and Foursquare. There’s rudimentary Google Reader support … Continue reading