My Opera3 cheers for Opera mini 5
Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:18:02 AM
When opera mini 5 was released, I downloaded it as soon as I came to know about it (from twitter). Frankly, I didn't expect such a complete makeover. it seemed I had never used opera mini before. everything was refreshingly new & closer to the desktop browser. But that's where the problem starts. As it gets closer to the desktop browser, it will need more memory which many phones don't have. So my Nokia 7210 Supernova (Having 30MB of memory) kept giving out of memory errors every now & then. I hope memory management will improve in the final release.
I found some other glaring deficiencies too. The synchronise function is not there, so it made me feel even more that this was the first time I was using opera mini as I didn't even have my bookmarks. Notes was also not to be found inside bookmarks. I looked for it but still didn't find it anywhere. I opened mobile orkut & found the third big deficiency, it is not displaying Hindi, opera mini 4.2 does on the same phone. Also, once I configured the speed dial, I could find no way to edit it, if there is one please tell me.
Opera mini 5 is no doubt a great product, it has the potential of becoming the de facto mobile browser in a few years, but once a feature is there, users don't want them to disappear in newer versions. so these issues need to be fixed.
I found some other glaring deficiencies too. The synchronise function is not there, so it made me feel even more that this was the first time I was using opera mini as I didn't even have my bookmarks. Notes was also not to be found inside bookmarks. I looked for it but still didn't find it anywhere. I opened mobile orkut & found the third big deficiency, it is not displaying Hindi, opera mini 4.2 does on the same phone. Also, once I configured the speed dial, I could find no way to edit it, if there is one please tell me.
Opera mini 5 is no doubt a great product, it has the potential of becoming the de facto mobile browser in a few years, but once a feature is there, users don't want them to disappear in newer versions. so these issues need to be fixed.
