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Opera Mini for all My Opera Community Members

Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:52:17 PM

We also want to see what people think of Mini, so we're starting up a competition. From now on, if you write a blog entry using Opera Mini, it will be highlighted in a special section. The 25 most popular blogs written using Opera Mini will win a cool new Opera t-shirt. The member that has the most popular blog, posted with Opera Mini, will get a new Nokia N70 with the full Opera browser. To download Opera Mini, please follow the instructions available here. This offer is only valid for My Opera Community members, so be sure to log in. UPDATE: Having troubles getting Opera Mini working? Let us know!

Comments

Webshit # Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:27:48 PM

Wel its great offer and compatition.
Ony I use stil an old mobile phone that where you still can call people with and sms. Don't need all the geek toys.

FlorianMyFriendJack # Thursday, November 3, 2005 7:48:56 PM

Opera Staff... will you marry me? I don't own an opera mini compatible smartphone either... but I still think that this is another great idea from you guys.

Krecony # Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:03:53 PM

Hi,
Hmm I would like to ask what about prize for "birthday winners"... I'm one of them and have no answer from Opera staff :-(
Anyway I would like to download Opera for my Palm :-)
Regards,
Radoslaw

Nunonunos # Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:17:16 PM

FYI you don't need a smartphone, just a phone that supports java. If your phone as those neat java games and/or you have some kind of wap browser you should be able to use Opera Mini.

Matt Coxcoxy # Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:41:17 PM

I've been using the Opera Browser on my phone for a while... I managed to get the Norweigen version, and change it to English. I was surfing the net on the way home from work today, from my mobile. Its great for email on the move.

Its nice. It LOOKS nicer than the default O2 browser, and somewhat works better - well, at first, at least. Fullscreen modes are excellent.

One major fault I found is that when I scroll down, it keeps jumping to the start of the page... or in the menus, removes the menu. Now, that could possibly be my joystick on my Sony Ericsson K750 - since moving it 'left' is taking the page to home, and 'right' to the end, with up and down being scroll, respectively. But, it could also be a bug in the browser... or that the browser is über sensitive to the movement of the joystick, because I dont get that problem elsewhere.

A feature I would like added, which even the O2 default browser supports, is the ability to save images to your phone. That would be nice.

One last thing, is the 'Worldwide Release' bringing users the latest version? (ie, a more recent build than v1.0.1479)

Konja PettiläKonya # Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:15:26 PM

Opera!
You are my Love in Life!

Mikhail Grigoryevvangrieg # Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:42:33 PM

I don't own an opera mini compatible smartphone either...

Isn't the whole point of Opera Mini that you don't need a smartphone? It's supposed to run on almost any Java-enabled phone.

Ivan MinicSerbianFighter # Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:43:47 PM

Tried .. downloaded.. logged in.. posted... nothing... damn.

Konja PettiläKonya # Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:50:25 PM

Opera!
You are Love in my Life!

Ricardo FerreiraRichardCooper # Friday, November 4, 2005 12:31:58 AM

Not available for Portugal?

PhoenixP3Kphoenixp3k # Friday, November 4, 2005 2:17:27 AM

I bought a Motorola v186 this year, not an high-tech phone. Let's say that's the generation we've reached in Canada (for low prices phones at least). Point being I never though Opera Mini would work on it but it does! I'm so glad it's working, I can finally surf the WWW on my cell phone (not some pre-rendered, highly limited, sub-inferior version of an original site; you get the idea).

THANK YOU OPERA STAFF!!

Lawrence EngLawmune # Friday, November 4, 2005 8:04:16 AM

I got Opera Mini to work on my old and very unimpressive Sanyo phone with a cracked screen. Very cool. Time to buy a camera phone so I can send photos to my gallery! Thanks!

Despero # Friday, November 4, 2005 2:31:18 PM

I now have Opera Mini installed on my Motorola RAZR V3, except without an Internet connection. GREAT! Thanks T-Mobile for charging an extra $20 a month just for Internet service.

I am actually considering getting that though...just to use Opera Mini.

Venimussign_up # Friday, November 4, 2005 5:08:27 PM

I use mpx200.
mobileIE doesnt allow me to download it

I know that there is no built-in java machine, but there are many 3rd party VM's that i can install. Could you please do something to allow smartphones' IE to download it?

Martin Strandmarstr2 # Friday, November 4, 2005 6:29:45 PM

Opera Mini complains about my amount of memory. It perhaps not that surprising -- I've got an Nokia 3410.

Rijk # Friday, November 4, 2005 9:45:06 PM

Saw the same thing on my girlfriend's Nokia 2650, a modern low end phone. I got a Java warning about a page that si too lomg, but after pressing 'ignore' the page did show up. Maybe the my.opera.com frontpage could be shortened a bit...

RamūnasRamunas # Friday, November 4, 2005 10:00:49 PM

I get low mem error very rarely.This happens when browsing very large websites.

Stegastega # Monday, November 7, 2005 11:53:01 AM

Super announcement, but in Switzerland I get a "the Requested Page can not be displayed" message with two different providers (Swisscom and Orange) and several phones (Samsung D600, Sony Ericsson P800)... any hints?

bernis # Monday, November 7, 2005 4:21:06 PM

this is greates mobile java application i've ever seen. thanks ... any plans for including Wand?

sxopera # Monday, November 7, 2005 8:06:23 PM

2Opera team
Can I write in blog in russian? How it will depend on my popularity?
And what is popularity depend of?

Brian J.brianj # Monday, November 7, 2005 8:37:56 PM

sxopera - the preferred language is English, however you're welcome to write in Russian. "Popularity", being a general term, will depend on a number of items. Namely, number of page views, number of (valid) comments, and finally, using our own metrics that take in certain considerations (quality of content, likelihood of foul-play, etc).

Lammert Popmalammertpopma # Monday, November 7, 2005 8:50:52 PM

This is fantastic! Its works without a hitch! Even in the Netherlands.
You've made me use the internet for the first time (longer than 5
minutes that is) on my mobile phone. This is great stuff. I am
affraid my mobile phonebill will explode or leave a big dent in my
doormat next month. But I don't care. I am a happy guy.

sxopera # Monday, November 7, 2005 9:41:46 PM

I'm getting stupied:)
I've created a blog(one post) but how can I write again? I see only comment table and nothing else:(

sxopera # Monday, November 7, 2005 10:25:27 PM

OK, I've found.

brianj
Here is blog http://my.opera.com/sxopera/
I have any chances to become a winner?

Eddieelcid73 # Tuesday, November 8, 2005 2:43:18 PM

I have been using it to browse movie times, simple google searches, etc on my motorola razr (Cingular). Mixed with the postive opinion I have of iTAP prediction software that is on my phone, I think it works very well overall.

I have always been of the mind that mobile browsing- especially on the phone is not a viable option. I guess I should have tried it before I knocked it. I still think overall- it's not something you should when you are bored- but there are some killer uses for it... Opera does it well. I have one request- but I'm going to take it to the wish list for better visibility.

I recieved a low memory error- I hit ignore (or something) and the page seemed to load fine.. but it's got me a bit worried.

I like that the community pages are easily accessible from the start page.

Brian J.brianj # Tuesday, November 8, 2005 2:49:58 PM

sxopera - As long as your posts are made using Opera Mini (and I see that they are: http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/operamini/ ), you're in the competition. It looks like you might have some tough competition though.

Sérgio Siegristbarulheira # Tuesday, November 8, 2005 5:19:14 PM

I always wanted to access e-mail through my mobile phone without having to install a POP3 client or whatever. Opera Mini does the job! Now I can read and write e-mail from Gmail whererever I am, even on the beach! I want to show this to my friends... :-)
Yes, I said Gmail. Have a try!
I use a Siemens MC60 mobile phone, and I'd like to point some things:
- This phone doesn't have left and right buttons, so I can't scroll page up and page down.
- It would be nice do add some features that use the numeric keypad to scroll, like did a shareware browser, Webviewer (not available anymore). Let's say: 2 and 8 to line-up/line-down, 1 and 9 to page-up/page-down, 3 and 7 to home/end, 5 to click, and so on. I know there are some numeric shortcuts at Opera Mini you can access pressing the # key, but you could go beyond this, right?
(Or is Opera Mini reserving numeric shortcuts to work as accesskeys on links/form fields? I usually press numeric keys on Opera Mini and nothing happens, unless the cursor is in an editable field.)
I'm not afraid about billing the little kilobytes Opera Mini gets from network for each page view. I'm amazed by the way Opera converts webpages into little code.
See you on the beach! :-D

Jayjayholler # Tuesday, November 8, 2005 6:01:51 PM

the download works for me but at the end of the installation i receive an "authorization failed!" message.
any tips?

Karl Sanderaic # Wednesday, November 9, 2005 8:22:25 AM

In germany on My Motorola C450 the page mini.opera.com/my sais: "the Requested Page can not be displayed" with the default wap browser and with a 3rd Parie one too. Its like the guy from switzerland said.

Eric Ruckerbhtooefr # Wednesday, November 9, 2005 4:31:41 PM

"File integrity not guaranteed. Continue?"

YES!

"Saved to Applications. Shop again?"

NO! I want to play with 2277, not this 147whatever crap that I had before!

And, I don't want to go digging for Sprint's price gouging apps...

J.R. Raithjrronimo # Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:09:27 AM

Installed on my V80, and I get the "An unexpected error occurred. Your browsing experience might be limited." error.

I live in Australia and my phone provider is Telstra... I doubt they'll be much help to me. I'll probably spend more time waiting on the phone than I really have, so I guess I'll just have to deal.

I'm very excited for this, though! It's definitely faster than the built-in browser, and a little easier to use. It's a shame my screen is so small!

Davidmoua # Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:33:31 AM

Same for me Val Parthen... (n-gage Bouygues France)
I think it's a server side problem wich will be fixed soon i hope.

MarianneManneS # Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:38:05 PM

To Val Parthen and moua (and others with the same problem):

"An unexpected error occurred. Your browsing experience might be limited" generally means that you need to access internet on Opera Mini with an internet profile. Please have a look in our forum at http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=111 where you will find more information about this.

Fajar Hari Santosaefha # Friday, November 11, 2005 5:31:59 AM

Why my coment didnt show up?What wrong?

H. V.beautee # Friday, November 11, 2005 1:08:00 PM

Im an opera mini user. I just wanna know if the opera company has plans of improving it's version again?

N.H.Rashdirashdi52 # Friday, November 11, 2005 4:20:16 PM

I have just now downloaded & installed opera-mini on my phone model Nokia3230 & it is working very well so far except that it does not have FULL-SCREEN option & speed is not so fast as claimed but a bit slower than other opera versions . . . it is the processing that takes much time . . . more comments will follow sooner . . . !

Davidmoua # Monday, November 14, 2005 6:54:52 AM

Mannes : thanks, i use the same profile for opera symbian and it work if i remove the wap gateway.
Full screen would be great, i am posting this message from mini

Zlatko Filipoviczlay # Monday, November 14, 2005 9:31:00 PM

I have Opera on my nokia.It's coooooooool!!!!

icewatericewater56 # Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:04:11 AM

so so

gauravh1 # Monday, November 21, 2005 1:46:13 AM

well friends there r lot of problems with mini. I use 2292 built. First of all u cant compare it with opera 8.5 mobile browser. U cant download anything with mini. It says simply "Downloads are not supported". Then there is not cookie support. I faced lot which is the latest. Thanks friends....

ЮрийYurets # Tuesday, December 6, 2005 1:54:47 PM

Samsung SGH-X100. Opera mini works exellent! Thanks!!! 8)

cjay073 # Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:58:02 AM

opera mini is gr8 except 4 one thing...y do u have to select a country when u want to download something,only to see that the downloads dont work!i tried downloading skins 4 my d600 but kept getting messages saying download ignored!apart from that,i think the guys @opera has done an outstanding job in creating this application!ps...how do i get javascript on my mobile?