Opera mini 4.3/native mobile browser on cell phone

Hello,

I have an LG Rumor Plus cell phone, model GW370B and I have a mobile browser plan with my cell phone service provider. There is a browser on the phone already and for the most part, I'm OK with it, but it has its limits and I'm thinking I might have more success with some web pages using a different browser. However, I don't want to lose the browser I have, nor do I want to cause any malfunctions such that I lose what I have.

Can 2 browsers co-exist on a cell phone such that a person could select which browser to run, as can be done on a computer? Or is that too much to expect from a cell phone? (Yes, the next phone will be a smart phone!)

The cell phone does play youtube videos from the current browser, and the phone's manual says it will run Java 2 Micro Edition.

I cannot access the m.opera.com site from the cell phone, so if I do decide to try this, it will have to transferred from my laptop. (And then how does one go about actually installing it on the phone???)

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Hi,

You can install more than one browser.

yes.. mahtoles right.. in my case i had installed another browser with my phone with a built in opera mini browser and i doesn't affect the default browser..

So... How'd you make out?

Well, I installed a micro sd card on my phone. That seemed to be the only way to get my laptop to see my phone as a mass storage device so that I could move files back and forth between a laptop and the cell phone. I downloaded the installer for Opera mini, but when I attempted to copy/paste the installer file from laptop to the cell phone's memory card, my laptop blue screened. This laptop has always been totally stable, I haven't had such an event on it for about 3 years now. I mean, this laptop NEVER crashes, freezes, or blue screens. So I decided this was not worth the hassle and I gave up. I think there might be something in the way my cell phone provider has configured this phone that is making it impossible to do some things between cell phone and a computer. For example, I know there is software that is capable of connecting a laptop or computer to the phone and thus using the cell phone to get the computer onto the internet. Not that I would want to do this right now, I don't have the data plan for it anyway. But the feature on this particular software which is supposed to work with this phone remains greyed out on my laptop. I don't know the capabilities of SIM cards, but I suspect that my cell phone provider's SIM card has something to do with this.

I'll be getting an e-reader with tablet capabilities pretty soon and people are saying Opera mobile works beautifully on these devices, so I'll give that a try.

Cool! Shame about the laptop, though.

The laptop recovered and it's been fine ever since. I'm just not going to try a file transfer between it and the cell phone again. When I get a smart phone of some sort, though, with a more robust data plan, I think Opera mini or mobile will be great on it.