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Opera Mobile with support for Gears

By Frode Hauge. Friday, 20. February 2009, 12:04:40

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We just made a build of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta2 with support for Gears. Head over to Opera Labs to read about it..

Release day - Windows Mobile, Symbian UIQ & Series60Opera Fingertouch

Comments

Tamil 20. February 2009, 12:10

Anonymous 20. February 2009, 12:54

Anonymous writes:

ermmmmm yeah... maybe you need to specify who this is for.... from what I can see, Only Windows Mobile users. Everyone else gets ignored!! Typical!

thobi 20. February 2009, 12:56

for "Windows Mobile 5/6 Pocket PC" only :frown:

still waiting for the s60 support for my brandnew nokia 5800 :cry:

Anonymous 20. February 2009, 13:24

Anonymous writes:

thobi:

I have been waiting mobile 9 since opera 9.0 beta... and now I have stopped waiting because it's useless. It's been so long and there hasn't been anything new. Forget it. :awww:

Anonymous 20. February 2009, 13:53

Anonymous writes:

cant understand why Opera is taking so long in releasing their own mobile browser while the competition is at least keeping its users informed of whats happening and at least having something for them to test. Skyfire, BOLT to name a few.

prking 20. February 2009, 15:52

@thobi, I'm still waiting for a version of Opera Mobile for my Nokia E90 which came out in 2007! Please Opera can we have a beta of the Series60 version.

Turbid 20. February 2009, 15:59

when s60!? :cry:

Chas4 20. February 2009, 16:23



FataL 20. February 2009, 17:03

Will be there test build for Symbian? :worried:

thobi 20. February 2009, 17:41

it's sad to see that there seems to be a demand for supporting the s60 platform and opera - known and loved for always having ears for the community - doesn't really grab this task :frown:
seems that things have changed over the years...?

perrisiam 20. February 2009, 19:55

I installed on my sprint mogul memory card, no problem, it seems the "x" button actually shuts the browser off now, that's a good thing

I then tried to run out of memory which I was able to do by launching three tabs

the great news is once I closed the tabs I have not seen the out of memory notice, this is another good thing

I cannot find widgets, yet another good thing, I think widgets should be user preferance since most units won't carry enough memory

so far this build is flawless

cousin333 20. February 2009, 20:43

Is there anything new in this build besides Google Gear support? I mean does it use a bit newer code, than the "official" beta 2? When will we have beta 3 anyway? It's not coming to Symbian, but it's way too slow for Windows Mobile either.... :frown:

Anonymous 20. February 2009, 23:13

Anarion writes:

Too bad that this is useless for majority of smartphone users (still nothing for Symbian S60 users).

Qasibr 21. February 2009, 03:35

You guys should read this:
http://tamss60.tamoggemon.com/2008/11/16/s60-browser-wars-opera-on-the-retreat/
http://tamss60.tamoggemon.com/2009/01/18/opera-we-are-dumb/

Nokia has alot to do with why there isn't a S60 version out yet, and why the version that is out, is very buggy on S60v3.1, .2 and .3 devices.

I think I've commented about this stuff on this blog previously too.

Anonymous 21. February 2009, 05:25

Anonymous writes:

glad to see it for Windows Mobile.

GoJoeGo 21. February 2009, 11:39

Originally posted by Anonymous:

cant understand why Opera is taking so long in releasing their own mobile browser while the competition is at least keeping its users informed of whats happening and at least having something for them to test. Skyfire, BOLT to name a few.

LOL, Bolt is an Opera Mini competitor (and Mini beats it, hands down). Skyfire is spyware (and extremely slow when navigating around and interacting with the page).

Originally posted by thobi:

it's sad to see that there seems to be a demand for supporting the s60 platform and opera - known and loved for always having ears for the community - doesn't really grab this task

Or Maybe Nokia is preventing Opera from making a S60 version because they fear competition.

Nokia is like Microsoft in many ways....

thobi 21. February 2009, 14:19

Originally posted by GoJoeGo:

Or Maybe Nokia is preventing Opera from making a S60 version because they fear competition.

Nokia is like Microsoft in many ways....


even if this is true there should be a clear statement by the opera developers.

GoJoeGo 21. February 2009, 15:10

@thobi: how do you know that they are in a position to comment in the first place? Apparently there's lots of stuff going on behind the scenes that we have no idea about. Maybe there's a lawsuit coming? Who knows?

All I do know is that if Opera comments in this in public, some idiots are going to start bashing Opera for speaking out. They will call Opera "whiners" and stuff liek that. These braindead morons always do that when Opera tries to hint at something being wrong somewhere.

KYren 21. February 2009, 15:12

If Nokia keeps the same attitude towards Opera,I am going to buy a Windows or Android device in the future.

prking 21. February 2009, 15:44

@gojoego, So Opera is prepared to make a public statement about Apple and Microsoft's restrictive practices, but not Nokia?

thobi 22. February 2009, 09:13

Originally posted by GoJoeGo:

All I do know is that if Opera comments in this in public, some idiots are going to start bashing Opera for speaking out


nobody is talking about whining. just informing about if or when a s60-version will come out or that there are no plans to publish one. but not titeling its blog posts with s60-version and not saying ONE SINGLE WORD about it...

Anonymous 22. February 2009, 20:45

Anonymous writes:

Who cares about S60, how about a WM Standard (non-Touchscreen) version of ANY of the Opera Mobile 9 betas? At least the S60 users have had a few of those by now.

Anonymous 22. February 2009, 22:37

Anarion writes:

Who cares about non-touch WinMo. That is a really small market. It's odd that ther is not even a single beta for Symbian S60, only widget manager but that's basically no use without Opera Mobile browser.

GoJoeGo 23. February 2009, 09:41

@prking: I have no idea. Don't ask me. All we have is speculation at this point, but it's clear that something weird is going on.

@thobi: point is, if Nokia is doing something nasty and Opera comments on it in public, all the morons are going to go "Opera is just a bunch of whiners, boo hoo".

thobi 23. February 2009, 20:32

Originally posted by GoJoeGo:

@thobi: point is, if Nokia is doing something nasty and Opera comments on it in public, all the morons are going to go "Opera is just a bunch of whiners, boo hoo".


well, i'd still say it's how you wanna see it and how you'd say it... your oppinion, but ok. :smile:

prking 23. February 2009, 21:05

@GoJoeGo: You're right, there is something very strange going on. I would expect to see something soon though, as Opera Turbo would be pointless if the dominant enterprise smartphone platform doesn't have Opera Mobile.

Anonymous 26. February 2009, 18:31

Anonymous writes:

@Qasibr

None of the aricles really suggests that Nokia is "Blocking" Opera,
Opera not working on some phones could easily be case of Opera using a
"Unrecommended/Obsoletle" programming practice from earlier S60 vrsions.

Flash being blocked could be due to the deal between Nokia and Adobe.


I would love to see Opera on my E51 regardlesss of Flash.The s60 browser is horrilbe.Keeps crashing.It can not even score a single point in ACID 3 test.(A .js file is opened as a text document instead of being processed by browser)

GoJoeGo 27. February 2009, 11:22

None of the aricles really suggests that Nokia is "Blocking" Opera,
Opera not working on some phones could easily be case of Opera using a
"Unrecommended/Obsoletle" programming practice from earlier S60 vrsions.


Actually, those articles suggest that there is dirty play going on. And earlier S60 versions aren't really interesting. People want 9.5.

Garion 27. February 2009, 14:26

I like this new build - it's good that you can now close it with the 'x' button without having to do a soft reset if hitting it by accident and there are a few other minor improvements.

My main gripe is the lack of hardware keyboard support (whilst recognising that this is mentioned in 'known issues') but Netfront and even Opera Mini recognise the keypad input from my Touch Dual.

One issue I hope Opera will address is the lack of scrolling of the Google search box on the start page - if I type more than 3 words I can't see the 4th etc.

KYren 27. February 2009, 14:36

Forget Nokia.I will buy a G2 or a Palm Pre when they're launched in India.I want Opera Miobile on them.

perrisiam 27. February 2009, 15:46

I have started to get more "out of memory" messages however when. I kill the warnng it doesn't pop up again

Anonymous 1. March 2009, 06:45

mash writes:

Still cool, but has a problem.
When I write text in 2-bytes language(like Korean, Chinese, ...), fonts are piles up together on multiline textarea. No problem on singleline inputtext control.

Anonymous 3. March 2009, 05:25

Anonymous writes:

The battle for "rights" and "legalities" continues... competition is fierce... we can all thank the iPhone for starting this fire. The never-ending struggle for the best "full internet experience" mobile browser is on. Makes me warm inside. Once everyone is done testing out these browsers and turning their phones into expensive bricks... I'll settle down with Opera! Flash or no Flash! By far the most user friendly (not to mention... SECURE) I am sure Opera will do everything in its power to work on every phone possible. Just a matter of people giving up their fears and byast supports. Remember, can't build a browser over night... well, you can (Fennec... haha) Also, some responses need to be carefully planned out because some greed ridden companies will take a comment over business personal and then... more legalities! Also, the new beta of 9.5... I can tell it is going to be exactly what we have all been waiting for! YAY

Anonymous 8. March 2009, 07:52

Anonymous writes:

"we can all thank the iPhone for starting this fire"

Why is iPhone given all the credit.

Opera existed since Long long long ago...

And Nokia had ported WEBKIT (which is tha same thing behind safari on iPhone) to Nokia phones long before iPhone came on earth.

Dakingsdisciple 9. May 2009, 11:49

Opera group and the managements. You guys are doing a great job! More power to your elbows

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