{"id":8729,"date":"2010-12-20T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2014-04-16T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:03:18","slug":"opera-mobile-10-1-silent-update-for-symbian3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8729\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Mobile 10.1 &#8220;Silent&#8221; Update For Symbian^3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperMobile10.1_11691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8735 aligncenter\" title=\"Opera Mobile10.1 (1169) on N8 With 6 Open Tabs\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/OperMobile10.1_11691-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Mobile10.1 (1169) on N8 With 6 Open Tabs\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Opera quietly released a new build of the Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Symbian today. It&#8217;s version 10.10 (1269)\u00a0 and is targeted specifically at Symbian^3 devices like the N8 and C7. It fixes a bug where Opera would crash when using the Nokia keyboard if predictive text was enabled and you pressed the on-screen right arrow key.\u00a0 There are several other bug fixes, all of which are related to text entry on Symbian^3.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/operamobile\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/opera-mobile-10-1-for-symbian-update\">changelog<\/a> lists the following fixes from from 10.1 final (all fixes are Symbian^3 specific):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Predictive text can be activated while writing passwords<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crashing when typing in password dialog using Sougou keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crashing when using predictive text and system keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Fixed issues with spelling keyboard not disappearing<\/li>\n<li>Fixed issues with backspace deleting all text in edit field when text isn&#8217;t selected<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug where previous virtual key searches do not highlight correctly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are worthwhile fixes. Being able to use the Nokia keyboard without crashing Opera is welcome. Before this release you were forced to use the built in Opera keyboard or risk a crash.\u00a0 The Opera keyboard is actually pretty nice, it even gives you a very usable portrait mode QWERTY.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s hard to correct typos when entering URLs with the Opera keyboard because it lacks cursor keys. That wouldn&#8217;t be a problem except that Opera uses a tiny, non-zoomable font for the URL field which makes it difficult to accurately position the cursor by tapping.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a decent browser is my biggest disappointment with Symbian^3.\u00a0 Opera Mobile, with its support for geolocation and blazing Javascript performance, comes close to being the ideal browser. But it has a number of usability issues on Symbian^3 (hard to\u00a0 toggle radio buttons and checkboxes, too small text at default zoom, hard to use zoom controls and zooming that breaks text reflow on many sites). I&#8217;m really hoping for a major Opera Mobile Symbian release before too long that finally delivers a browser for Symbian that rivals the Android and iOS ones.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related posts<\/em>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8461\/\">New Opera Mobile 10.1 Is Fast and (Mostly) Stable On the N8<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7834\/\">Opera Mobile 10.1 Symbian Beta 2 &#8211; Much Improved JavaScript Performance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7372\/\">Opera Mobile 10.1 With Location Support For Symbian and Maemo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera quietly released a new build of the Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Symbian today. It&#8217;s version 10.10 (1269)\u00a0 and is targeted specifically at Symbian^3 devices like the N8 and C7. It fixes a bug where Opera would crash when using the Nokia keyboard if predictive text was enabled and you pressed the on-screen right arrow key.\u00a0 There are several other bug fixes, all of which are related to text entry on Symbian^3.\u00a0 The changelog lists the following fixes from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8729\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[1143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20462,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/20462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}