Opera Mini 5.1 update for Android

By Marian Hmarianh. Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:11:01 AM

Opera Mini 5.1 for Android has been updated.
The major changes in this release are:

- Adjusted font sizes.
- Font fixes for Chinese and Japanese, so speed on pages with these fonts should be greatly improved.
- Improved stability.
- Improved input for Sony Ericsson X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro.
- Chinese users can now download the application from the Android Market.
- A bunch of bug fixes.

If you already have Opera Mini 5.1 for Android installed, the update is automatically applied.

Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone for free from the Android Market. For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mobile/.

As always, we welcome your feedback in our forum, and please report any bugs in our bug report wizard. Thanks!

Regards,
The Opera Mini team

Opera Mobile 10.1 beta 2 for Symbian Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Series 60 is here!

Comments

Sami Serolaserola Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:47:26 AM

yes

Ramdan Adler Blythermdn13 Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:47:44 AM

Android again Android again....

Where's update for BlackBerry,,

Hhahahahha....

Keep up the good works guys smile

kirpich Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:53:43 AM

Good work! Everything ok on Desire.

Patrick O'Reillypaddy2k Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:11:23 AM

images a looking kinda blurry, as if they have been scaled up

ouzowtfouzoWTF Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:32:09 AM

If you already have Opera Mini 5.1 for Android installed, the update will be automatically applied.


So I will not notice when it updates, because its not the normal update behavior (I have to download the update manually and it will install automatically over the previous install)?

//Edit: Ok, tried it out and its available as normal wink

BubbleTea101 Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:32:43 AM

When is Opera Mobile for Android released? Waiting for that!

Aux Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:32:58 AM

Fonts are better now, thank you! But I also would like to have an option to control image scaling. Scaled large images look ugly. I think there should be some kind of adjustable image size threshold, so small icons can be scaled to be easily clickable, but big images inside content (in IMG tag) like photos left as is. Otherwise they look ugly and take too much of screen space. 800x600 scaled image blows my 800x480 screen.

Robertrobert2610 Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:34:01 AM

Wow. Nice. Too bad I don't have an Android to try this out.

YongShunyongshun Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:37:17 AM

wheres iPhone version?

Per Hedborper Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:53:42 AM

Somewhat conter-intuitively, perhaps, selecting 'Medium' quality images should cause large images to not be upscaled, but small images to be scaled.

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:23:04 PM

up

dualbore Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:20:50 PM

great, thank you!

FelixAtLaaschDe Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:13:19 PM

Could you please bring back the separate option for the (Android) status bar in fullscreen mode?
I would like to see my statusbar (to know if I have a connection over mobile internet or wifi, to see the clock, and to see the notifications) but I don't want to see the red top bar with the name of the site and I don't want to see the menu bar all the time. A good part of my screen is lost to information I don't need.
I'm quite sure there was an option like this in earlier versions... and I think it's more annoying than the few bugs that are still in there.

Thank you for your great work, by the way wink

selurus Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:13:34 PM

I'm sure The Opera Mini Team has been really busy recently.
Opera Mini Rocks headbang

KirX Friday, October 29, 2010 6:33:01 AM

Due Adjusted font sizes the texts looks not consistent.
Though every char is more readable, but increased space between chars leads to less readable text (usually if you read fast you get the whole word at glance).

Unfortunatly I have no idea how to get previous version of Opera. After update it seems there is no chance to rollback.

SpookSpook81 Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:27:44 AM

Is an EXIT button too much to ask for? (But please don't do it like in BlackBerry, where it asks you Windows-like 'do you really want to exit'? YES! I WANT TO EXIT! ¬¬ )

anton saputraChMpANk Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:35:21 AM

Enjoy

prd3 Sunday, October 31, 2010 4:55:51 PM

Originally posted by Spook81:

Is an EXIT button too much to ask for?


Shouldn't you be asking Google that question, since they designed Android to NOT include an exit button in apps?

raj9402377963 Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:37:22 PM

Opera 5.1 is not downloadable from my androaid phone LG GS 290. Why

KirX Monday, November 1, 2010 1:00:41 PM

Hooray! I’ve changed the opera back to previous version. And now happy again. It will be great if Opera will host previous versions as well, since getting old apk was the most difficult part ;-)

And now:
- feeds page shows me the number of unread items again
- Nice text with nice fonts
- Nice unblurred pictures

John McLaughlinBuyamoxil Tuesday, November 2, 2010 5:07:10 PM

Wow. Nice. Too bad I don't have an Android to try this out.

Diego hwaDidiegoish Wednesday, November 3, 2010 3:57:48 AM

Mantabbb.!!!

LéazzBabyJay99 Friday, November 12, 2010 11:36:16 PM


up

Masuod Gholamimasuodgholami Tuesday, December 7, 2010 5:10:57 AM

love u ,
you all deserve Nobel peace prize ,cause We surf net without problem & filter in IRAN just with The Great OPERA MINI,so fast so comfort,,,, always. .# 1 best
cheers flirt

dadochko Saturday, December 25, 2010 1:28:07 PM

Appslib.com : could you update Opera Mini on this download platform ?

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=851062

Säkerhetsdörrsakerhetsdorr Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:56:38 PM

Any link to the complete changelog?

FELIX KIMARUFLEXAZZ Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:58:28 AM

I would like to have this version again. where do I download it from. this is because 6.0 does not work well in my phone.

Sami Serolaserola Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:44:47 PM

Originally posted by sakerhetsdorr:

Any link to the complete changelog?


Pretty comprehensive one here on Opera Mini forum:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=940232

What I think is not mentioned there are:

1) Double tap on touch screen phones to zoom in/out text, which is often more convenient than new pinch-to-zoom. Pinch-to-zoom is however good for form check boxes and when links are close to each other.

2) Quick jump to top/bottom on touch screen phones. When you scroll fast there appears arrow to jump all the way at once.

Sami Serolaserola Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:50:56 PM

Originally posted by Spook81:

Is an EXIT button too much to ask for?


If that's Android phone, then you do not need one wink Just Click phone's 'Home' to exit software and to get somewhere else. Android OS takes care of all applications running on background and you don't need to worry if memory looks like used all the time. That is intentional on Android OS! The Android system takes care that memory becomes free when needed. Read more here:
http://my.opera.com/overjoid/blog/2011/01/12/to-kill-tasks-or-not-to-kill-tasks-that-is-the-question

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