Tag Archives: Opera Mobile

Location Aware “Touch Web” Transit Tracker from NextBus

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Alameda, California based NextBus delivers frequently updated estimates of the arrival time of the next transit vehicle at a given stop. Delivery is by electronic signs, voice response systems, SMS  and the Internet, including the mobile web. NextBus is used by 45 transit systems in the US and Canada, including my hometown, San Francisco. NextBus’ mobile web site has been an anchor tenant of the WapReview Mobile Directory for many years.  I use it a lot and find it really … Continue reading →

Mobile Bookmarklet Page Update and Cleanup

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Most of the better mobile browsers support JavaScript bookmarklets, including Opera Mini 4.2 and 5, Mobile Internet Explorer, Palm Blazer, Opera Mobile, the iPhone, MicroB, Firefox Mobile and the latest version of Nokia Webkit on the N86 and Symbian 5th edition devices. I maintain a page at o.yeswap.com containing dozens of tested mobile bookmarklets and instructions for using them. Today I added a couple of new bookmarklets  to the page: Zap Cookies – Delete all cookies associated with the current … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 Released

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Opera Software has released a new Beta of Opera Mobile,  their native code direct browser for  Symbian 3rd and 5th edition and Windows Mobile 5 and 6+ phones.  It includes a couple of highly anticipated features; Windows Mobile only support for plugins such as Flash Lite and support for non-touchscreen Windows Mobile phones. The Beta also features numerous bug fixes and stability and functionality enhancements. I installed the new Beta on my N95-3 and can confirm that it fixes two … Continue reading →

S60 Opera Mobile 10 Text Entry Bug and Workarounds

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Ah, the joys of beta software.  It turns out that the  Beta 2 “Update”  release of Opera Mobile 10 that I raved about last week has a bug that inserts random text in mult-line edit fields. It’s bad enough to make using Web-mail and most online Twitter clients almost impossible. The problem occurs as soon as you type text that extends beyond the width of the screen. When Opera wraps the text to the next line it also copies part … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 S60 Updated – Inline Editing Gets T9 and Symbol Modes

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(Above) Editing Options in Opera Mobile Beta 2 There’s  a new version of  Opera Mobile 10 available for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones.  This release, dubbed “Opera 10 Beta 2 Update” adds full native editing and entry modes to in-line editing in web pages and the Opera Mobile GUI. Previous Opera Mobile 10 releases had two edit modes; “in-line” (image, top left) where you could enter text directly into fields on the screen but were limited to using triple … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Windows Phone Released

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Good news for Windows Mobile (a.k.a. Windows Phone) users, Opera’s newest browser, Opera Mobile 10 is now available for the Classic and Professional editions of Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.0 and on Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC.  I don’t have a Windows phone so I can’t try this myself but I have been using Opera Mobile 10 as the main browser on my Nokia N95-3 for the last two weeks and I recommend that you give … Continue reading →

The Truth About Opera Mobile 10 Memory Usage

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It’s been a long wait but Opera Software today released the first Beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian.  Supporting Symbian S30 3rd and 5th edition devices, Opera Mobile 10 is available  free of charge at opera.com/mobile/next/. I’ve downloaded the new Beta onto my trusty Nokia N95-3, which is  the North America Market version of the original N95, and I am impressed. The first thing I did was run the Acid 3 Test where Opera Mobile scored 100 out of … Continue reading →

Speed Test – Opera Mini, Bolt, Skyfire and UCWEB

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About a month ago All About Symbian‘s  Rafe Blandford published an extensive set of browser speed test results. Rafe compared page load times for ten well known US and UK sites using eght different Nokia S30 3rd and 5th editon devices plus the T-Mobile G1, iPhone 3G, Skyfire and Opera Mini.  Latter Matthew Miller at Smartphones and Cellphones updated Rafe’s data with numbers for the iPhone 3GS and Opera Mobile 9.7.  Rafe and Matthew’s data showed that smartphone browsers are … Continue reading →