{"id":8580,"date":"2010-12-03T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2010-12-05T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T17:57:51","slug":"new-opera-mini-beta-fixes-symbian3-stability-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8580\/","title":{"rendered":"New Opera Mini Beta Fixes Symbian^3 Stability Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperaMini5.1SymbianBeta2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8584\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperaMini5.1SymbianBeta2-240x425.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Mini 5.1 Symbian Beta 2\" width=\"240\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperaMini5.1Java2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperaMini5.1Java2-240x425.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Mini 5.1 Java on N8\" width=\"240\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>A second beta of\u00a0 the native Symbian (.sis) version\u00a0 of Opera Mini 5.1 was <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/community\/forums\/topic.dml?id=825902\">released yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 Among other things it fixes two significant bugs from the first Beta.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The previous version would crash if you enabled the option to use the Symbian (and Swype) keyboards.\u00a0 Based on my testing this bug is completely gone.\u00a0 I been using the new Beta extensively on an N8 for a full day and have experienced no crashes whatsoever<\/li>\n<li>The previous version was unable to connect to access points which had a proxy server defined. The new one is supposed to solve this issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Opera, other changes since Beta 1 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed display problems on selected devices.<\/li>\n<li> Some devices with rotation issues are now rotating properly again.<\/li>\n<li>Available in 38 new languages.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese characters now look great in the UI and web pages.<\/li>\n<li> Third-party Chinese IME support has been added (QQ, Sougou, Baidu).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not perfect, the new Beta is good enough for me that I&#8217;ve switched to using it instead of Opera Mobile or the Java version of Opera Mini on my N8.\u00a0 The biggest advantage of the Opera Mini Symbian version over the Java one\u00a0 is that with it copy and paste use the OS clipboard\u00a0 rather than an internal Opera one.\u00a0 This makes it much easier to copy and paste text between Opera Mini and other apps on the phone. As for Opera Mobile, it&#8217;s a great browser in most respects and I&#8217;d like to use it more but don&#8217;t because it doesn&#8217;t wrap text properly on a some of my favorite sites.  The native app also seems to launch and load pages a little more quickly than the Java one.\u00a0 Plus the Java version has a long standing bug that if you opt to use the native keyboard it&#8217;s\u00a0 impossible to change search engines in\u00a0 the URL bar search box.\u00a0 The native client is missing that bug.  There are still a couple of areas I&#8217;d like to see improved in Opera Mini for Synbian. The main one is that the font Opera uses for menus and other UI elements\u00a0 in the Symbian version (image above, left) is much smaller than the one used in Java Opera Mini (image above, right).\u00a0 With my old eyes it&#8217;s just barely readable.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a big deal in the menus, which I know by heart.\u00a0 But if you choose to use the Opera keyboard, which includes a nice portrait QWERTY option, instead of the native Symbian one the\u00a0 tiny font is also used for the URL entry field.\u00a0 That coupled with the lack of arrow keys on the Opera keyboard makes positioning the cursor accurately on a particular character while editing URLs nearly impossible  The font size issue is easily fixed by setting Opera Mini to use the Symbian keyboard. To switch, go to Opera Mini&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Settings<\/em>&#8221; menu, tap &#8220;<em>Advanced<\/em>&#8220;, then tap &#8220;<em>Opera keyboard<\/em>&#8221; and choose &#8220;<em>Never<\/em>&#8220;. The disadvantage to using the Symbian keyboard is that in portrait orientation you are stuck with Nokia&#8217;s 12 key T-9 keyboard.\u00a0 The T-9 isn&#8217;t that bad (some people actually claim to prefer it!) but I&#8217;d take Opera&#8217;s QWERTY over it but for the text size issue and lack of arrow keys. Both problems will be solved if and when Nokia and Swype come through with the promised QWERTY portrait keyboard.  The new Beta Supports Symbian 2nd, 3rd and 5th edition and Symbian^3 devices.\u00a0 Download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.opera.com\/\">m.opera.com<\/a> on your phone or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/mobile\/download\/pc\/\">opera.com\/mobile\/download\/pc\/<\/a> using your PC browser.\u00a0 In my opinion it&#8217;s the best Symbian browser available and is especially recommended for Symbian^3 users.  <em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related Posts On WapReview:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8461\/\">New Opera Mobile 10.1 Is Fast and Stable On the N8<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8127\/\">New Opera Mini Native Symbian Version Reviewed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second beta of\u00a0 the native Symbian (.sis) version\u00a0 of Opera Mini 5.1 was released yesterday.\u00a0 Among other things it fixes two significant bugs from the first Beta. The previous version would crash if you enabled the option to use the Symbian (and Swype) keyboards.\u00a0 Based on my testing this bug is completely gone.\u00a0 I been using the new Beta extensively on an N8 for a full day and have experienced no crashes whatsoever The previous version was unable to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8580\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[1091,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}