Tag Archives: Opera Mini

Using Opera Mini or Mobile To Fix The E6’s Too Small Fonts

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Nokia E7 Email App

I rather like the Nokia E6 which WOMWorld/Nokia lent me. It looks and feels very elegant and the keyboard is one of the best I’ve ever used on phone. The only real issue I have with the phone is the extremely small fonts used in HTML emails (image below, left) and for some mobile Web sites like CNN (image below, right). I’ve reduced the images so that they are about the size of the E6’s 2.4 inch screen when displayed … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 – Resizable Text Selection and More

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Opera Mobile 11.1 Text Selection

Today Opera Software released new versions of both its mobile browsers. Opera Mini 6.1 is now available at m.opera.com for Java, Symbian (2nd edition and later) and BlackBerry (OS 4.2.1 and later) devices and in the Android Market for Android 1.5 and later. Opera Mobile 11.1 is available from the same locations for Symbian (3rd edition and later) and Android 1.6 and later. My favorite improvement in both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile is with the way text selection for … Continue reading →

The Engadget Demobilizer – A Bookmarklet To View Engadget’s Desktop Version In Opera Mini

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Engadget Desktop in Opera Mini

Engadget is my favorite source of news about all sorts of tech including mobile devices, platforms and apps. I was a little worried when AOL acquired Engadget and many of my favorite writers left.  But the new crew at Engadget is great, they’re delivering lots of well written and well edited breaking news stories, reviews and great photos and videos of the latest gear. I like Engadget’s mobile site at m.engadget.com too. Well actually I like it in most mobile browsers … Continue reading →

Opera Mini For Android Updated – Connection, Memory and Stability Fixes

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Opera Mini 6 Android Update3

Opera Software pushed out “Opera Mini Version 6.0, Update 3” for Android phones and tablets today. The full version number is 6.0.25174 and it seems to be strickly a  bug fix release. According to Opera the changes are Better memory handling. Fixed calculation of free space for downloads. Fixed issue with previous URL being reloaded upon startup. Fixed issue with “Connection failed” on page load. HTTP proxy settings is read from APN. Various other crash fixes. I tried Update 3 … Continue reading →

New Browser Releases: Opera Mini 6 for iOS, Bolt 2.51 and Opera Mobile 11 for MeeGo N900 DE

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Can’t see the video: Click here to view on YouTube This week was a busy one for mobile browser vendors with three new releases. The most notable is the long awaited Opera Mini 6 for the iPhone and iPad which was announced and demoed at CTIA in March and is finally available.  I wonder how much of the delay was due to Apple’s paternalistic app aproval process? New features in the iOS release include: Updated design with a fresh new … Continue reading →

Opera Mini Secret Codes

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Opera Mini Source Code Display

Opera Mini has some special commands that you enter in the address bar like a URL but without the “http://”. Many of them return information that’s probably only of interest to Opera’s developers but a couple are actually very useful. My favorite is config: which opens Opera Mini’s Power User Settings page where you can tweak  many browser settings like the timeout and whether the browser should make phone numbers clickable. See my post Opera Mini’s Hidden Power User Menu for … Continue reading →

Google News Now Optimized For Opera Mini

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Google News for Opera Mini

Click images to view full size. Yesterday Google announced that they are now serving Opera Mini visitors to news.google.com a version of the site that’s optimized for their browsers. Up to now Opera Mini users had been seeing the bare bones legacy mobile version of News. The legacy view is optimized for embedded feature phone WAP browsers and only displays five headlines from a single section per page with no images. Google News for Opera Mini is very similar to … Continue reading →

Browser Test: Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mini 4.3

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Opera Mini 6 (Android) Touch Speed Dials and Menu

Click images to view full size Last week at CTIA, Opera Software released three new mobile browsers, Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mini 4.3.  I covered Opera Mobile 11 a couple of days ago.  Here’s my take on the new Opera Mini versions. Opera Mini 6 and 4.3 can be downloaded from m.opera.com using your phone or from opera.com/mobile/download/ with a PC. The Android version is also available from the Android Market. Opera Mini 6 is latest … Continue reading →