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Opera Mobile 10 Beta on the Omnia HD

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:13:24 PM

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Until now I haven't been able to browse the web properly on my Samsung Omnia HD. The built in web browser is slow and cumbersome, Opera Mini 4 or 5 beta will freeze or slow down after a while, and Opera Mini 3... Doesn't support even basic stuff from HTML.

So it was a huge surprise to see the beta version of Opera Mobile 10 be released for S60 phones. Opera Mobile 10 Beta, brings Opera's speed and standards support from Windows Mobile and UIQ to S60 phones, coupled with the new user interface innovations in Opera Mini 5 beta.

A welcome feature from the desktop version of Opera is the new opera:config editor. There's a variety of settings available, but the most welcome for Omnia HD users might be the minimum font size setting. The default minimum font size in Opera Mobile 10 Beta is 11, which is common on phones with smaller displays without touch. But on the Omnia HD's 640x360 screen, it's hard to read and links are even harder to hit with your thumbs. Setting the font size to 15 will make text more readable and links easier to touch. Here's how:

  • Go to opera:config in the address bar
  • Type in font in the search field
  • Scroll to the bottom and look for "Minimum Font Size"
  • Type in 15 in the text field
  • Click "Save"
  • Restart Opera Mobile


Once you start Opera Mobile again you'll notice that Opera Mobile has become a bit more Omnia HD friendly. Enjoy!

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5 things I'd like to see in Opera tag

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:48:51 PM

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zomg tagged me. And the game is 5 things I'd like to see in Opera. It started here. Read that blog post for more information about the game. Here's my list in no particular order:

  1. Menus on toolbars expand automatically just like in the menu bar.
  2. Scrolling bookmarks menu instead of an expanding menu with more items.
  3. Option to add a new toolbar to the browser yourself.
  4. Installing UserJS as easily as installing Widgets in Opera.
  5. Dynamic installable menus that can fetch information from the web.


The next victims are... devil

Thủy Hiền, Patrick McFarland, Giania, anzah and Furie.

Two of these are from outside My Opera. But I think they both can provide valuable information about Opera. One is not an Opera user, but a knowledgeable person that knows what he wants. He might have seen something that Opera users have overlooked. The other one is an Opera user more active in other communities. She also has been very helpful in the promotion of Opera.

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Make your cellphone a Opera remote controller

Sunday, December 3, 2006 1:27:07 PM

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I experimented some with my Sony Ericsson K600i lately and I found out that I can easily make it a remote controller for any program I want. So after using a whole night and one morning figuring out the perfect key layout for the remote controller I came up with this!

As you might have noticed, I used the Opera Mini graphics for this. This should make it easier for Opera Mini users to use the remote. And it looks really good too.

The key layout is a cellphone-user-friendly layout especially made for people that have played games on their cellphone before. As you might have guessed, the twelve squares in the middle are the number keys. The squares on the right are the volume keys and the camera trigger button.

Download
You'll need a Sony Ericsson cellphone or a cellphone that supports HID profiles. You'll also need a bluetooth program on your PC that supports bluetooth HID devices. Once you've downloaded, simply send the file to your cellphone via bluetooth or put the file in your "other" folder in your cellphone and install it. You might need to configure the bluetooth program on your PC to use your cellphone as a HID device. Good luck.
Opera Remote.hid

The keyboard keys the remote simulates are:

Left softkey: Shows the context menu. (Ctrl+m).
Right softkey: Goes back in history and deletes text in forms. (Backspace).
Joystick left: Move one link left. (Shift+left).
Joystick right: Move one link right. (Shift+right).
Joystick up: Move one link up. (Shift+up).
Joystick down: Move one link down. (Shift+down).
Press joystick: Enters the selected link, makes a new line in text forms or sends the form. (Enter).

Keypad 1: Escapes from menus. (Esc).
Keypad 2: Moves up in the page. (Up).
Keypad 3: Goes to the next tab. (Ctrl+tabulator).
Keypad 4: Moves to the left in the page. (Left).
Keypad 5: Clicks checkboxes and radio buttons, clicks links, moves one page down. (Space).
Keypad 6: Moves to the right in the page. (Right).
Keypad 7: Opens a new tab. (Ctrl+t) (I might make a version where it runs Opera from a shortcut to open a new tab).
Keypad 8: Moves down in the page. (Down).
Keypad 9: Closes the active tab. (Ctrl+w).
Keypad *: Opens the bookmark menu. (Alt+b).
Keypad 0: Refreshes the page. (F5).
Keypad #: Fast forward in pages or forward in history. (Alt+right)

Volume key up: Move one page up. (Page up).
Volume key down: Move one page down. (Page down).
Camera trigger button: Focuses the menu bar, removes focus from the menu bar. (Alt)

Not happy with this layout? Well I'm planning making more of them later. Still not enough? Make your own profiles with the HID configuration editor by Anders Gunnarson.

Links
HID configuration editor

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My Opera Mini 3.0 experience

Friday, November 10, 2006 2:41:17 PM

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On the 1st of November 2006, Opera released the beta version of Opera Mini 3.0. I love testing new products and I downloaded the new version pretty soon. Opera Software never ceases to impress their users. And like every single release, it had exciting new features. Still they manage to keep the download size small. It's still less than 100 Kb. So now you might be wondering what these new features are.

Features

Finally Opera Mini 3.0 includes safe browsing. Opera Mini has always warned the user that their data isn't safe on https websites. This is because the data sent between Opera Mini and Opera's server isn't encrypted. But in this release your data is safer.

One of the new features is newsfeeds. If the site contains a newsfeed Opera Mini detects it and show a notification in the top of the screen. When you click it, you'll see a preview of the newsfeed and you're given the option to subscribe. Later you can check the news by going to 'Feeds' on the start page.
I tested it with my Google Reader newsfeed but it didn't work. VG.no did however.

Another new feature is photo upload. Means you can take a photo with your phone camera and upload it. But no, you can't upload files from folders on your phone. You're restricted to taking the photo when running Opera Mini. You'll click a photo button on the website and Opera Mini accesses your phone camera. It'll take the photo when you press OK. Then you'll get to see your photo before you upload it. Press OK and Submit and Opera Mini upload the photo. This really isn't the optimal approach to upload. You take your best photos when you're not using Opera Mini.
I really don't know why they can't let the user access their phone folders. If I recall correctly, most phones allow Java programs to access their folders.
But you can't even be sure that your phone camera works with Opera Mini 3.0 Beta. On my Sony Ericsson K600i, Opera Mini accessed the video call camera on the front instead of the one on the back.
Opera Software can really do this better. But I suppose that's what they expect Opera Mini 3.0 to be used for. Uploading pictures of you on <insert social networking site here>.

There's more. Content folding. This makes browsing faster since you don't have to scroll that much before you'll see the text. The links are folded into a group you can expand. Although I've heard from a few websites that it doesn't always play nice on their websites. Although you can switch it off if you don't like it.

Conclusion

The purpose of the beta release is of course letting users find those bugs bug so Opera Software can squish them properly before the release. But most of the functionality is already there. So you'll be able to experience the features of Opera Mini 3.0 already today.

Opera Software's questions for you are...

Originally posted by Opera Software:

  • Does photo upload work on your phone?
  • Feed (RSS) compability with your favorite feeds.
  • Does content folding work well on the sites you regularly visit?

My answers are...
  • Photo upload works. But the camera on the front is used instead of the photo camera on the back on my Sony Ericsson K600i.
  • The only newsfeed I want, my Google Reader feed, doesn't work.
  • Content folding works properly on most sites. But the links in the top of My.Opera blogs doesn't fold properly. More websites have complained that Opera Mini don't fold their links as expected.


So go ahead. Try out the next generation already today. Find your own answers to Opera Software's questions about Opera Mini 3.0. Make your experience of the final product as good as possible. Click the link and find out more and how to download your own copy of Opera Mini 3.0 beta.

Links
Limited Opera Mini™ 3.0 Beta - Opera Software's page for this beta

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Opera Mini 3.0 beta

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 7:44:03 PM

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Opera released the beta of the next generation of their java phone browser that allow you to browse the full web on your cellphone today.
And in the spirit of beta testing, I downloaded it straight away.
In fact, I am currently typing this on my Sony Ericsson K600I's very painful keypad. Ouch!
Among the news in this version are secure browsing, rss feeds, photo upload (straight from the phone camera), and content folding.
beta.mini.opera.com

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