Opera Mini beta contest

By Lawmune. Friday, 8. June 2007, 00:33:53

We know you're waiting anxiously for the Opera Mini Dimension beta release. Trust me, we're having a hard time waiting ourselves (except for the developers and testers all over the world working their butts off to make sure everything is just right). I wish I could say more, but it's going to be a really exciting release.

To make things interesting, we decided to run a small contest:

Send us your guesses as to what you think the biggest new feature of Opera Mini Dimension will be. For those who get it right or are the closest to getting it right, we'll send you a brand new Opera Mini tshirt, never before released until now. We'll give out three shirts. If more than three people guess correctly, we'll do a random drawing amongst the best guessers to select the three winners.

Send your best guess here: http://my.opera.com/Opera-contest/about/sendmsg.dml
Please use the following subject: beta

Deadline: ? (You don't seriously think we're going to give away the release date, do you?

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The deadline to submit your guesses is the release date of Opera Mini Dimension beta. Don't take a chance; send your guess early. Only one submission per contestant, and only one guess per submission. Good luck!

Update (6/20/07)

Here are the winners (we'll be contacting you shortly):

marcinec
ThiagoHP
rasinhussy

End Update

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Here at Opera, we are famous for our fast and furious brainstorming activities. Here are some photos documenting the evolution of our creative design process. Maybe they'll provide a clue or two as to what the biggest new feature is _{(or maybe not)}...

Prepare for a new dimension in Opera MiniOpera Mini 3.1.2

Comments

So, it's a music playing, photo taking, motion controlled viking helm?

Or are we talking Flash to enable music, photos and games?

By Furie, # 8. June 2007, 01:36:06

And i was so sure it will be today

finally after some hectic guessing and demanding to be rewarded at the forums

By philry4n, # 8. June 2007, 01:52:21

Looks like ManneS is getting mugged on that date after all.

By Furie, # 8. June 2007, 02:06:34

I bet she won't bring her mobile phone

By philry4n, # 8. June 2007, 03:06:02

I think this will be a opera mini with a media player and photo capturer and one which can be connected like a broadban.

By zjpops, # 8. June 2007, 03:15:36

Online bookmark synchronization

By Cyro, # 8. June 2007, 04:01:18

Remember, don't guess in here, as others might "steal" your idea. Do as mentioned in the blog.

By ManneS, # 8. June 2007, 04:08:11

Bah, you crazy bunch of teasers. You should have posted OM friendly pics, you know most of us that don't browse with images off have small screens.

By dantesoft, # 8. June 2007, 04:13:22

I know whatever's coming, the desktop team hasn't posted anything lately....what are they waiting for?

By rmccabe916, # 8. June 2007, 04:16:45

They're waiting for me to perfect my dance routine...

By H82typ, # 8. June 2007, 04:58:54

By rmccabe916, # 8. June 2007, 05:09:46

I think Dimension will be a Full HTML Internet browser + Landscape View + Compression

By Roysihite, # 8. June 2007, 05:42:24

"The first line in the change log would be the biggest new feature."

Is it possible to lose with that guess??

- ØØ -

By NoteMe, # 8. June 2007, 07:19:31

I did come up with some solution based on those images. If those images contain clues I believe they depict more than one feature. And maybe some of them depict features which will not be in Opera Mini Dimension. I hope I chose the correct one.

Hmm. Maybe the big feature in Opera Mini dimension will be Chuck Norris. Because he can have any feature he wants.

By drlaunch, # 8. June 2007, 07:50:17

Um... mini widgets? Download manager or anything else what is in Opera 9.2? Zoom maybe? Show/load images or not, etc?

Whatever :-) Just release it.

By DjiXas, # 8. June 2007, 08:34:06

Step 1: Make cell-phone Viking helmet
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!

By d4n3, # 8. June 2007, 10:54:01

Nice way to prevent people from guessing features in public

By hermen2048, # 8. June 2007, 18:29:27

Reminder: Only one guess per person, and only one guess in the PM.

So far we've had many replies. Keep on guessing!

By ManneS, # 8. June 2007, 18:49:44

Online bookmark syncing with Opera Desktop 9.5

By mgillespie, # 8. June 2007, 19:41:38

Oops I sent one with three guesses as well a second with one. Oh well. Dimension's my prize, not a t-shirt.

By Furie, # 8. June 2007, 20:05:05

All i'm getting is an image of Erik the Viking playing Wii Sports...

By theoddbod, # 8. June 2007, 20:05:15

This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirik_Blodøks

By ManneS, # 8. June 2007, 20:47:35

That's the fellow! Although I imagine him more as the character from this :

http://files.myopera.com/theoddbod/files/Erik_shrunk.JPG

and playing Wii Sports Bowling

By theoddbod, # 8. June 2007, 21:54:37

That would be interesting to watch!

By ManneS, # 8. June 2007, 22:20:00

ONLy one guess per person? I sent 4 guesses, each corrensponding to one picture. >_<

By Unholy_Prophecy, # 9. June 2007, 04:45:57

So there's a MASSIVE lense on top of the cell phone's camera, implying Opera Mini is going to focus more on blogging your pictures, perhaps?

It's going to have games and music and stuff... but isn't this just a new and improved My.Opera? How does this play into just the Mini?

By IceArdor, # 9. June 2007, 07:04:17

support for turning your phone into a slingshot

By jbergj, # 9. June 2007, 09:46:12

New opera mini beta should include some important features like: Uploading any file from mobiles harddisk/memory card. Uploading a file is a important feature of any internet browser.
Also i think users should be allowed to customize shortcut keys in new opera mini beta.
And ability of copying/pasteing any texts in pages/form in opera mini beta will be very helpful.
Bye

By sayem, # 9. June 2007, 11:39:21

@Ice. If you're right it could simply be enhanced camera integration. Currently with my phone I can take a photo in standard mode through Opera Mini. I can't access the flash or enhanced camera functions to ensure a decent photo.

@Sayem. You want the wishlist thread in the forums.

By Furie, # 9. June 2007, 11:44:32

Hi dear developers, just like Furie stated, the new Opera mini is my prize, not some T-shirt... And I wonder whether you have the XXXL size to fit my massive body....

Regards, a fat boy, Timm.

By AzureTimm, # 10. June 2007, 02:50:13

By Furie, # 10. June 2007, 07:34:05

lol nice photos:)

By Profesjonalna, # 10. June 2007, 09:50:22

¶I guess that the new big feature for OM "beta" "dimension" "mindnoise"¶may will be an Email Box integrated with a Multimedia Messager.

¶If not a microwave and an hairdryer are usefuls!

¶My tshirt XXL please! ¶

By myeagle, # 10. June 2007, 20:45:21

Oh, you don't know what to implement next, don't you? But the wishlist is too big, so you decided to find out most wanted features, didn't you?

By Shulyaka, # 11. June 2007, 06:39:41

I was wondering about that myself.

"Right guys, we've got every new feature on the wishlist made and working now, but the download's up to 3mb."
"Why don't we run a competition and find out what they most want?"
"Even better, let's tell them it's to see if they can figure out what the best new feature is."

By Furie, # 11. June 2007, 08:07:38

this photo describes the most powerful feature of opera mini: http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8185/newoperaminigb0.png
I guess

By znos, # 12. June 2007, 10:58:16

I want that phone!

By Furie, # 12. June 2007, 12:45:09

Unless you have some abnormally big pockets, you'd better buy some new pants first then, Furie.

That image gave me an idea. How about a Opera Mini dimension "biggest new feature" photo contest? Where the pictures are in the same style as those in this blog post and that image.

By drlaunch, # 12. June 2007, 12:55:03

Who needs pockets? It'd be my at home data device.

By Furie, # 12. June 2007, 13:14:50

It's obvious that the new feature will be viking helmet support/compatibility... haha

By compking, # 13. June 2007, 07:22:45

I sent my guess but it didn't say anything like "Message sent" or anything... I wonder if it went through... did you guys have the same experience?... did I do it right(?)...

By compking, # 13. June 2007, 07:37:19

I think it will preform sing and dance widget hn the rain ! Glad Midsummer a Alf

By alfmurman, # 13. June 2007, 11:36:28

You can always check your messages under the "Sent" folder.

By ManneS, # 13. June 2007, 16:34:20

I think Opera Mini will have Flash support. That's the big new feature. I'm pretty much sure about it.

**FLASH**

By fleance1, # 14. June 2007, 19:13:31

A-ah he'll save everyone of us...

By Furie, # 14. June 2007, 19:44:47

By theoddbod, # 14. June 2007, 20:04:12

As I see, all photos describes features that already exists at OM:
iPod: anti-aliasing font & animated interface
camera: photoblog
Wii: means that we can use Opera almost at any device...
helmet: secured connection

By ivan_p, # 16. June 2007, 23:49:30