Opera Mobile 11.5 for Android: Now with Data Usage

By Phillipkbeeme. Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:07:15 PM

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Opera Mobile 11.5 will now show you exactly how much data you have spent and saved using the two products and, in turn, the money and time you save.

A dedicated page, easily accessible from the help menu inside the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers, keeps count of how much data you are spending and saving in total, or for a specific timeframe like a trip abroad with roaming.

The number of megabytes saved while using the Opera Mobile browsers can directly translate into money saved if you are roaming or on a pay-as-you-go plan for data traffic.

For people on capped data plans, this is a handy feature to make sure you don't max out reaching those slow, punishing network speeds you might encounter after using up your allowance.

So what's new?

Opera Mobile 11.5 for Android change log

  • Added Data Usage view
  • Implemented adding bookmarks to Home Screen
  • Implemented support for inline HTML5 video on Honeycomb devices
  • Implemented import of system bookmarks
  • Fixed problem with Cookies disappearing during the browser session
  • Fixed problem with Out of Memory when login to Link account
  • Fixed problem with Flash not working on HC devices after 11.00 update of Flash player
  • Various fixes for font problems
  • Various stability and performance fixes
  • Cache stored on SD
  • Updated Mobile core to 2.9.201
  • Permissions: See bit.ly/opera_permissions


Opera Mobile core 2.9.201 change log

  • ECMAScript 5.1, including strict mode
  • Optimized memory consumption of JS engine
  • HTML5 microdata
  • New IDNA specification implemented
  • Network performance improvements
  • CSS 2.1 compliant display:list-item
  • SVG optimizations
  • Support the intermediate state for Checkboxes


The Web is what I do:

We also launched Opera Mini 6.5 for Android today Opera Mobile is a full browser with client-side support for JavaScript, HTML5, Flash (Android only) and more. In Opera Mini, the browser engine is running on Opera's servers. Web pages are transcoded and compressed up to 90% before being downloaded to the device, making Opera Mini lightning fast and also much cheaper if you are paying per megabyte.


As always Happy Browsing,
The Opera Mobile team

Updated Opera Mobile 11.1 for Symbian released Opera Mini 6.5 for Android: Now with Data Usage

Comments

Patrick O'Reillypaddy2k Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:43:09 PM

Excellent work, took me a while to realise that add to homescreen meant, Android's homescreen, not the speeddial.
It'd be great if icon created on the homescreen used the site's apple-touch-icon if available (with a red O superimposed on the bottom right corner).
A speeddial widget would also be sweet!

ouzowtfouzoWTF Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:34:57 PM

up

Would be nice if OMobile would be a little less reactive for scrolling left/right while scrolling up/down and up/down while scrolling left/right. A little bit like it would be on rails. Page reading would be easier with it, because you dont scroll out of your reading position too easy when scrolling not exactly straight.

Kenneth Crudupkennycrudup Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:44:56 PM

What's up with new tabs opening in the background, and how do you FIX that (yes, I consider that a "bug" and not a "feature", works-as-intended or not)?!

Been meaning to ask this question for over a year now.

UseLesS Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:30:57 PM

http://www.golem.de/ is completely unusable with this release; all the fonts are invisible sad

Cutting Spoonhellspork Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:54:27 AM

Originally posted by ouzoWTF:

A little bit like it would be on rails.


I think Firefox Mobile is more constricted when scrolling. It also depends on your teouchscreen. For me I think Opera does it better. (although comparison is unfair; Firefox has too many small UI problems that need fixing)

Originally posted by kennycrudup:

What's up with new tabs opening in the background


I can sympathise with you on this; though mostly I'd prefer new pages open in background NEXT to their parent. Long story short, Opera changed new tabs from foreground to background and most people like it that way. This could probably be changed if the options were in opera:config, but to my knowledge they are not.


I need to extensively test this new build. I have had the problems with cookies and an issue with Mobile crashing after Link synchronised my bookmarks. It will be nice if they are fixed. (alternatively, Link could have two bookmark options: "share bookmarks with Mini" and "download all bookmarks")

Kenneth Crudupkennycrudup Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:58:27 AM

Originally posted by hellspork:

[Open Tab in Background] could probably be changed if the options were in opera:config, but to my knowledge they are not.


Opera Devs: this would be HIGHLY appreciated if it were an opera:config option. I like to open new tabs (so I don't lose my place in the original document) and having them open in the background is somewhat annoying.

Thanks!

Craig Snivelycraigsn Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:56:22 AM

I tried reading this webpage (http://www.zdnet.com/debate/great-debate-more-growth-ahead-for-android-or-is-it-stagnation-time/6301491?tag=nl.e550), and it does not display correctly as I scroll down the screen. There are boxes on top of boxes (don't know how else to describe). Completely unusable for this webpage.
Other than that, I have had good luck with other web sites.

Xunnu Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:59:36 AM

Originally posted by paddy2k:

A speeddial widget would also be sweet!


Agree!!!!yes

danielmmmm Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:35:49 AM

Awesome! Thanks for the Maemo version! Setting user agent to "desktop" finally works and Internet is getting useful on sites like Facebook and Google smile

Sosica Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:39:31 AM

yeah, thank you for the Maemo version, very very appreciated ^^
the only thing I don¨t understand is why "connecting to internet on startup" is a default settig.

ouzowtfouzoWTF Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:43:54 AM

Opera Mobile starts really slow on my Milestone, although its already overclocked :/

Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:54:49 PM

up

Cutting Spoonhellspork Saturday, October 15, 2011 3:39:21 AM

Runs VERY well for the most part, certainly cookies have stopped disappearing.

....seems more difficult to long-press a URL without zooming way in.

ouzowtfouzoWTF Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:32:11 AM

Originally posted by UseLesS:

http://www.golem.de/ is completely unusable with this release; all the fonts are invisible


Yes, very buggy. I think the font color is set to white, because you can click on links when you find them.
Pity there is no confirmation for this from an Opera staff member.
Did you file a bug for this?

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Monday, October 24, 2011 2:31:02 AM

Originally posted by kennycrudup:

What's up with new tabs opening in the background, and how do you FIX that (yes, I consider that a "bug" and not a "feature", works-as-intended or not)?!

Originally posted by kennycrudup:

Originally posted by hellspork:

[Open Tab in Background] could probably be changed if the options were in opera:config, but to my knowledge they are not.

Opera Devs: this would be HIGHLY appreciated if it were an opera:config option. I like to open new tabs (so I don't lose my place in the original document) and having them open in the background is somewhat annoying.

+1 And why having one or another depending on a configuration if there's enough room for having both "Open link in New Tab" AND "Open link in Background Tab" available in the context menu?

johannesth00ht Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:06:00 PM

Ehm. It is not available in Market at the moment. Did you know that?

Cutting Spoonhellspork Tuesday, November 1, 2011 12:04:46 AM

Mini and Mobile are both available in my geography.

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