Tag Archives: Opera Mobile

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 Mobile 11 For Symbian and Android

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Opera Mobile 11 Android - Full Screen With Status Bar

Opera Software released a trio of new browsers last week at CTIA. They are: Opera Mobile 11 for Android 1.6 and later and Symbian 3rd Ed and later. There are also experimental “labs” releases of Opera Mobile 11 for Maemo, MeeGo and Windows (for Windows 7 tablets). Opera Mini 6 for Android, Symbian 2nd Ed and later and BlackBerry OS 4.2.1 and later. iPhone and iPad releases will be available soon. Opera Mini 4.3 for Java ME and BlackBerry. The … Continue reading →

How To Fix Word Wrap In Opera Mobile on Symbian

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I’ve been using my N8 a lot lately and because the Symbian^3 browser is so bad (slow, too small default fonts and no text-reflow on zoom) I’ve been using Opera Mobile 10.1 quite a bit as well. It’s a much better browser overall; it’s noticeably at faster loading complex pages, has tabs, lets you copy page text,  has some HTML5 support including geolocation and text is supposed to reflows to fit the screen width. But I keep running into pages … Continue reading →

New Opera Mobile 10.1 Is Fast and (Mostly) Stable On the N8

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The non-Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian was released today.  It supports S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th edition (aka Symbian^1) and Symbian^3 devices. Like all of the Opera 10 Symbian variants, it needs a fair amount of free RAM, at least 40 MB and  70 MB or more  for best results. Download it from opera.com/mobile/download/ or m.opera.com (mobile). The main changes in this release are said to be increased stability and more localized versions.  There’s a  full change … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile for Android

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I finally got a chance to try the  Android Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 that was released last week.  It’s available in the Android Market for devices running Android OS 1.6 and later.  There’s a special Android OS 1.5 build that’s only available directly from Opera. If you never used Opera Mobile before the first thing you will notice is that it’s look and feel are almost identical to that of Opera Mini.  Appearances are deceiving in this case … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10.1 Symbian Beta 2 – Much Improved JavaScript Performance

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Today Opera Software released a new Beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian^1, Symbian^3 and Symbian 3rd Edition phones. Download Beta 2 at m.opera.com/next.  The main feature of the new release is the addition of the Carakan JavaScript engine’s Just In Time (JIT) compiler. Opera claims the new compiler makes JavaScript execution up to four times faster. I tested that claim by running the popular Sunspider JavaScript benchmark on a Nokia N95-3, first with Opera Mini 10.1 Beta 1 and … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10.1 With Location Support For Symbian and Maemo

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Opera Mini 5.1 for Android release, Opera Software today put up Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian 3rd and 5th Edition and Maemo 4.1 and 5.0 (N800, N810 and N900). This release adds long anticipated support for Geolocation to along with: Support for CSS3 border-radius, background attachment, box-shadow, border-image attributes and for the 2D Transforms module. The latest Carakan JavaScript engine (with JIT on Maemo) The Vega vector graphics library An update of the Opera … Continue reading →

Updated: Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 Final Released

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Opera today released “Final” (non-Beta) versions of Opera Mini 5 (image above, left) and Opera Mobile 10 (image above, right) for most platforms. Only the just released Opera Mini 5 for Android and the native Windows Mobile version of Opera Mini  remain in Beta. Download the new releases from m.opera.com with your phone browser or opera.com/mobile/ with your PC.  Opera Mini 5 Final will replace Opera Mini 4.2 and Opera Mobile 10 Final will replace any Opera Mobile 10 Beta … Continue reading →