Testers wanted: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Symbian/S60

Today we released Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Symbian/S60 keypad (series 3) and touchscreen (series 5) devices.

The main new features include:
  • Geolocation. Web sites can now query the location of your device. End user controls access on a site by site basis.
  • Carakan JavaScript engine (w/o JIT)
  • Vega graphics library
  • Update of Opera Core and numerous bug fixes

Download Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for S60 directly to your phone at m.opera.com/next.

Or download direct to your PC here:

Known issues in the 10.1 Beta:
  • Somewhat higher memory usage, especially on JavaScript intensive sites
  • Due to timing issues with different geolocation information providers (WiFi, cell towers, GPS) first request may have poor precision
  • Fast scrolling on Touch devices not optimized for page rendering
  • Opera Link may not work when using APN with a proxy configured
  • Some SVGT images may appear to freeze on Nokia E-series phones
  • If SIM card is not registered, or phone is in flight mode, first geolocation request in a browser session may fail

As always, we welcome your feedback here in our forum. Thanks!

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Comments

KYrenKYren Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:02:31 AM

yes

Remco Lantingremcolanting Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:32:43 AM

Today we released Opera Mini 10.1 beta for Symbian/S60 keypad (series 3) and touchscreen (series 5) devices.


That should be Opera Mobile smile

dupel Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:53:39 AM

Wow! Will try it later on 5800 =)

And cant wait for Android version with all the goods inside =) (and thats the best place to hurt Chrome too)

João Davidpiroxicam Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:11:23 AM

Nice, thanks.
The Bookmarks now works great. In the previous versions I had some ghost white-lines of empty bookmarks.

Spc Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:40:00 AM

Just tested: on my Nokia E71 SunSpider became 2 times faster: around 74000 ms for Opera Mobile 10.1 vs. around 145000 ms for Opera Mobile 10. And that's even without JIT! Good work!

General Dreadgeneraldread Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:46:21 PM

I just installed 10.1 on my N97 Mini and to my surprise it does not install over the previously installed opera browser... Now I have 2 opera versions installed. Because of this non of my bookmarks have been transferred into the new opera beta 10.1

Vladimir Barosvbaros Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:19:49 PM

Thanks for working on it.
It is the best mobile browser currently on Nokia bar none.
It definitely feels faster then the previous version 10.

Is there a chance to incorporate JIT in Nokia phones? I mean can it be done for example on Nokia 5800 given that it has small amount of free memory to begin with?

Ide StoutjesdijkCrimi Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:20:42 PM

Thanks will test it on N97 mini, keep up the good work. I like this more than Opera mini

Martin RauscherHades32 Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:06:07 PM

http://www.opera.com/mobile/ shows no sign of the beta...

General Dread: I think as this is a beta this is the expected behavior.

dip86 Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:06:47 PM

I had to restart my n79 before it showed up in the applications folder. Thankfully all my synced bookmarks properly display themselves now. Looking forward to developments-its been a while.
smile

captainkirt Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:03:40 PM

The new javascript support means that I can now use my mobile for internet banking. Brilliant except that the home screen shows the 9 speed dials in 2 lines instead of the old 3.

pradumanpraduman1417 Friday, July 16, 2010 2:18:31 AM

got e63 goin to bomb it...

lamberto acyatanlamberto Friday, July 16, 2010 3:56:34 AM

Great in Sony Ericsson Satio

M3moho9 Friday, July 16, 2010 4:11:28 AM

opera 5.1 is better.because there is no different opera 5 and 10.

darkcg Friday, July 16, 2010 6:40:40 AM

Any news for Windows Mobile?

solvpilen Friday, July 16, 2010 7:53:33 AM

Originally posted by generaldread:

I just installed 10.1 on my N97 Mini and to my surprise it does not install over the previously installed opera browser... Now I have 2 opera versions installed. Because of this non of my bookmarks have been transferred into the new opera beta 10.1



Just activate Opera Link then you will have all your bookmark, speed dial in sync on both version.
Read more about Opera Link here http://www.opera.com/link/

miceq Friday, July 16, 2010 8:27:30 AM

How to get an English version? It automatically detects my location and gives me a localized version.

manohar kapurmskkapur Friday, July 16, 2010 1:31:46 PM

Congrats for improving the browser. Tested on nokia e63 & 5233. Couldnt find any error. Earlier bug of failure to dowload files from secure sites like banking rectified.
however, plz make the fonts within the browser little bigger like in bookmarks, settings etc. These cannot be changed with fontsize setting which increses fonts within the web pages only.

gspingola Friday, July 16, 2010 2:00:23 PM

10.1 for Windows Mobile?
Thank you!

david8black Friday, July 16, 2010 2:19:52 PM

Runs out of ram on 5800. nice and fast though for 30 seconds wink

DrMcCoy72 Friday, July 16, 2010 8:24:34 PM

Seems to work fine on a SE Satio, no crashes or strange looking pages.
Just 3 requests:
1) Zoom other than 100% will give a bit blocky images when not using turbo mode.
2) In fullscreen mode, when the page is loading the back button actually means stop loading. This should be indicated with a X, to avoid confusion.
3) Open in new tab should not open the tab as front most, I'd like to continue to read on the page I'm in, then after the new tab has loaded, switch to it and read on...
Keep up the good work!

Topimrkukov Friday, July 16, 2010 9:38:43 PM

First mobile browser to get scores in peacekeeper test!
Nokia n82 + this build -> 65 points. cheers

Rahul Gargrahulgarg016 Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:36:58 AM

anyone pls tell me abt Android...does it works on 5800..??

martinderm Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:51:00 AM

works great on E71. But I'd like to see a 2*5 icon start page instead of 1*5+1*4.

Wernererror-at Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:19:01 PM

i'm still waiting for an android version of opera MOBILE :/

adityag Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:27:34 PM

how to edit my speed dials ??? I want to edit them and again sync them using opera link.
Possible ?

Marcel Bayàmbayaf Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:56:16 PM

Used for some seconds only, but it looked fast and good on 5800 + N97mini.
For me, the only think that was missing from iPhone is almost gone: good web browser on Symbian 5th!

shvvladimir Monday, July 19, 2010 1:38:47 PM

Still waiting for RSS!!!

Razakarazakadera Monday, July 19, 2010 3:17:36 PM

Hello.
I'm using a nokia 5800 and it works fine.

Here are my appreciation

Good things :
- it is faster than the version 10
- There is the tab download because in the earlier version, i can't see the percentage of my download

Things to be revised :

- I downloaded something and after the downloading, i can't see the file in the tab download. i must go to the explorer and remember the directory to open it.

- When i select text and hold it to copy (this is the procedure for the nokia 5800, but may be there is another way that i don't know), I selected successfully all the text I wanted, but sometimes, I forgot some words. And I lust redo the same action to select all the text.

It will be very usefull if there is a button at the bottom which activate/deativate an edit mode/view mode so the text selection will be very easy than holding the screen waiting for the "Select text" to appear

Manuel Chavianomccuba48 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:07:27 AM

Fast! Great browser. I installed in a Nokia 5230 (Nuron).
What I noticed:
1) I pick a larger zoom size but bookmarks are still displayed with a very tiny font that cannot be changed and is very hard to read (same with the text in the URL, search boxes, menus, settings, etc). Older Opera Mini had an option for text size that applied to all areas.
2) Images in portrait mode are not displayed with the correct ratio (streched, pulled from top/bottom).
4) Noticed that http://mobile.bloomberg.com does not adjust to the screen width and I have to move sideways in order to read the page. When zoomed out it fills the screen, but the text is too small (does not acknoledge the zoom factor?). I have the "Mobile view" option clicked on. (BTW this site behaves well with opera mini on a Sony Ericsson TM506).
5) Out of memory message while loading NYT mobile page (not every time though).
6) Tried downloading a large video and got "There is not enough disk space..." (I guess it only looks at C: or the internal memory). The drop down does not let me choose "Memory card" or drive E: as the Opera Mini version does in the SE TM506.
Only "pictures", "videos", "sounds" and "music" but without being specific of either drive C: or E: will show in the drop down choice of the download dialog.

Thanks for all the good work!

VarunVarunM Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:06:19 PM

Eating up 20 MB more memory than Opera Mobile 10 version on my Nokia 5800.
With 3 tabs, cnn,nyt and huffington pages opened. Then crashed.

saturninennui Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:56:18 PM

Google Reader for iPhone at http://www.google.com/reader/i/ still does not display the star beside each entry. It does display in the default browser for the E63, though.

Twitter Mobile at http://mobile.twitter.com/ does not present a clickable link when the cursor hovers above the Favourite button of a tweet. Again, the E63's default browser renders this just fine.

As I use both sites regularly--sometimes on a daily basis--it'd be great if these two bugs could be fixed by the next beta. Thanks!

myregs Wednesday, July 21, 2010 5:34:38 AM

It's still loses CSS while scrolling medium and heavy sites (particularly Vkontakte)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJtE2FAkCso

saturninennui Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:47:23 AM

Goodreads Mobile at http://www.goodreads.com/m/home fails to render properly, and is too zoomed out to be of good use.

artyname Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:50:05 AM

you fixed user javascript, thanks!

prd3 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:01:39 PM

Originally posted by myregs:

It's still loses CSS while scrolling medium and heavy sites (particularly Vkontakte)!


What do you expect, when you have a huge page like that and your phone probably isn't capable enough? You can't expect miracles.

mag Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:17:57 PM

Phone: SE Vivaz, R2CA024

1. Feature request: landscape/portrait view manual switch (like in Opera Mini)

2. Incorrect behavior: Switching Zoom levels often produces inconsistent results, sometimes when switching between various levels no zooming occurs, only thing notices is slightly modified page layout but everything is still small.
Setup I use: Images off, Fullscreen on, Mobile view off, Opera Turbo off, Default Zoom 200%.
URL to reproduce: pretty much anything - www.opera.com for example
Steps to reproduce: just use my settings, open opera.com, change zoom level via menu and see the difference. Sometimes it (zooming) seems to work, so play with it a bit more - open any other URL, switch zoom levels, open opera.com again, switch zoom levels.
Zooming by tapping on the screen works well, but I'd like to have it working via menu option Zoom, especially leave it set to approx. 200% and have it working which is quite problem.

Nikhilnavx2vad Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:30:53 AM

fail to see any website using geo location query or even processing.
every time 'out of memory' popups.. crasesh numerous time.
and worst is blank screen wen page loads to full.
example : gmail, facebook doesn't open only.

nokia 5800 firmware: v50.0.005

Puneet Ranapuneetrana7 Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:16:07 AM

I Love to surf net on the go on my Opera Mobile and i am a big fan of your Opera Mobile Browser and Opera Mini. I have Nokia 5800 with v50.
I would like to make suggestions which I would like to see in Opera Mobile & Mini. These are:-

1). Flash Support
I would love to see flash being introduced in Opera Mobile as soon as possible since i love watching videos. I would requet you to kindly bring Flash Support in Opera Mobile 10.

2). Long Press Backward Key
When we are in full screen view and surfing net and want to return to specific page back, I would like to see when we long press the Backward Key a menu pop ups which show the currently visited pages in the same tab rather than going to the menu and browsing history and then clicking a link. This feature would make Opera Mobile & Mini more great and Best browser and make browsing easier.

3). Download Rate
I would like to see at what rate my current download i going at i. e. the download rate. Please bring thi feature soon.

4). Customization
I would like to change theme of the opera mobile and mini, set a background to speed dial page, e.tc. which will make Opera more Appealing.

5). Less RAM hogging
I would Request Opera to come up with less resource hogging Opera Mobile Update as i am using Nokia 5800 and i have free RAM of only 45MB. Please see it once.

6). Torrent Integration
I love this Feature on my Opera Desktop and would love to see it on Opera Mobile 10. Please bring this feature to Opera Mobile.

I hope My suggestions are seriously looked upon and the suggestions i have made can be seen by me and all other fans as soon as possible. I hope my suggestions do not fall into deaf ears. Hoping for a positive response from your side.

Overall opera Mobile 10.1 Beta installed nicely on my nokia 5800 and also worked great.yes yes idea idea smile

Puneet Ranapuneetrana7 Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:17:04 AM

Please mail me if you liked my suggestions.

prd3 Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:49:33 AM

Originally posted by puneetrana7:

I would love to see flash being introduced in Opera Mobile as soon as possible


That's up to Adobe, not Opera.

DrMcCoy72 Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:19:12 PM

one more request would be to use the profile setting for vibration when opera recogizes a click, either in menu or on a link...

myregs Friday, July 23, 2010 6:31:22 AM

prd3
it's reproducible on fast phones as well. as simply a bug. and page isn't that huge. there is a lot of scripts, but almost no graphics. and this site is among top 5 of viewed sites by opera users.

delicowa Friday, July 23, 2010 6:15:54 PM

kinetic scroll is wonderfull. Speed is superb. Ram usage not so cool. I still cant see flash support. Nice work on the javascript engine... And every other thing that has been said

endless lovepersianweblog Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:17:14 AM

up

Fabian DWar10ck Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:41:44 PM

Android!!!

dip86 Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:32:55 PM

I would love to be able to make use of the scroll wheel present on my n79 somehow-perhaps simply to scroll through pages.
Also would like to use more levels of zoom on s60v3-perhaps using the dedicated volume up and down buttons, and/or being able to jump to the top/bottom of webpages with these buttons would be very useful.

adordep Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:56:12 PM

Hi,

when trying to install Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta on the Nokia n78 I get an error message. Something like:

"certificate error, contact the developer".

What can I do to solve this problem?

Pav Lucistniklucistnik Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:55:56 AM

Regression compared to Mobile 10: most of unicode arrows is gone. See this for a test page: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html

MSLokiBartleby Friday, July 30, 2010 6:21:54 PM

Suggestion: make it possible to access the bookmarks of the built-in browser on S60 5th phones.
Other mobile browsers (e.g. UC Browser and Digia @Web) support this feature, I wish Opera would do, too.
Nevertheless I like Opera Mobile very much, and the 10.1 is noticable faster than the 10.0.

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