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There’s a new Opera Mini release, version 4.1, now available as public beta. Anyone can download it by pointing their phone browser at mini.opera.com\/beta<\/a>. BlackBerry and Palm versions and generic .jad and .jar files for side loading can be downloaded to your PC at www.operamini.com\/beta<\/a><\/p>\n This release is pretty exciting as it adds a number of new features that users have been requesting on the Opera Mini Forum<\/a>. The changes include:<\/p>\n I’ve loaded the beta on all four of my phones. Installation went smoothly and so far the beta seems stable.<\/p>\n Find in Page works great, You hit #, * and enter your search string, press OK and the first match is highlighted with the soft keys mapped to Next and Stop. Searches wrap around which I like. It’s fast too.<\/p>\n The URL auto completion works a little differently than I expected. When you choose “Enter Address” from the menu or hit #,1 an inline edit box appears containing the current page’s URL. That’s nice if you want to edit that URL. If you want to enter a completely different URL you need to press the right soft key (labeled “Delete”) once to clear the field before moving the cursor. Otherwise you will have to delete the existing address one character at a time.<\/p>\n I had only moderate success with the functions requiring JSR 75. Of my four phones the only one where everything worked was an unbranded Nokia N95-3 which I only tried with the double signed version. Besides enabling the JSR 75 related functions signing also eliminates the prompt asking me to allow Opera Mini to use the network that I used to get every time I launched it.<\/p>\n File upload\/download and saving pages did not work on a Sprint Samsung A920 with any of the signed and unsigned versions of the beta. The phone supports JSR 75 plus it’s has been hacked to allow even unsigned applications access to privileged API’s. I really expected it to work. At least the error I got, “String index out of range -6”, isn’t not a security exception. I suspect a bug or incompatibility in the Qualcom JVM is causing the error. Maybe Opera can devise a workaround. Incidentally, Sprint and Openwave have white listed mini.opera.com so it’s not transcoded<\/a> anymore and the Samsung A920 is recognized properly.<\/p>\n On a unlocked unbranded Motorola Z8 all the signed versions gave the error “Component failed security check. Cannot install. Certificate information could not be understood.” The error message then proceeded to describe in great detail what it could not “understand”, details like “Issued to Opera Software ASA … VeriSign Class 3 Code … effective from 4\/2\/08 to 4\/2\/08 …Fingerprint: F1:37:F5…” Why is mobile security so screwed up? Opera is trying to play by the rules and still the phone barfs on the expensive VeriSign and Thawte certificates! The good news is that with the unsigned version everything works although you get nagged multiple times to grant permission every time you save a page or download a file.<\/p>\n A Boost Mobile branded Motorola i855 refused to install any of the signed editions. The unsigned version installed but saving pages and upload\/download are not even available in the menus.<\/p>\n Opera Mini just keeps getting better and better. It amazes me that it can work so well on so many different phones. The new features are great. Being able to save pages and off-line browsing are things I’ve wanted for a long time. Find in page will save lots of time I used to spend scrolling back through 200KB of text to find a link or quote. The utility of auto-completion is obvious. Well done, Opera.<\/p>\n Of course it’s a beta, there will be bugs. Do your part as a beta tester and report any you find using the forum<\/a>, the online bug reporting page<\/a> or in Opera Mini under Menu > Help > Bug Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a new Opera Mini release, version 4.1, now available as public beta. Anyone can download it by pointing their phone browser at mini.opera.com\/beta. BlackBerry and Palm versions and generic .jad and .jar files for side loading can be downloaded to your PC at www.operamini.com\/beta This release is pretty exciting as it adds a number of new features that users have been requesting on the Opera Mini Forum. The changes include: Search for text in the current page. Press #,* … Continue reading \n