Opera Mobile

Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 for both Symbian/S60 and Windows Mobile

By Dag Olav Noremdagolav. Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:06:10 AM

Today we release a new beta of Opera Mobile 10. And for both Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 at the same time! Our new cross-platform UI framework enables us to provide the same features and browsing experience on both platforms. Read more on www.opera.com/mobile. Or download it at www.opera.com/mobile/download/.

The main improvements from the previous betas are:

Both:

Opera Link
Download manager
UI is more finger-friendly on touch devices
Possible to manage search engines
Opera remembers page position and zoom state when moving in history
Column snapping also on touch
Better memory management
Fix for mobile view crash
Start page available from touch menu
Lots of minor bug fixes
Clear cache setting

Windows Mobile (only):

Asks whether to set Opera as default browser on install
Fix for crash on startup (occurred on some devices due to encoding in bookmarks that were imported)
Shortcut support

Known issues include:

S60:

To view Asian languages Web pages you must download the "International version". This includes extra fonts which take approx 3Mb space after installation. See this blog post for more information.
Only phones with Asian language packs will show Asian characters in the user interface (bookmarks etc)
Known exceptions: Thai, Hindi (no support for Thai, Hindi glyphs in UI elements regardless of build used)
Only partial IME (Input Method Editor) support
Soft keyboard is shown even though hard keyboard is slid out and in use
Canceling a connection request does not work (dialogue will pop up again indefinitely)
Crash if you use system edit (platform input method) instead of default on facebook.com (probably also other sites)
No plug-in support (e.g. Flash)
You must click connect twice to use Opera Dragonfly

Windows Mobile:

Non-Touch devices are not supported (Smartphone profile)
No plug-in support (e.g. Flash)
Some input method editors “IME” (hard and soft phone keyboards) are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft's SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QWERTY, ABC mode doesn't work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.
Many IME's (Input Method Editor) will override the Opera shortcuts
Certain HTC devices with TouchFLO will force Opera back to portrait mode if visiting home screen when Opera is in landscape.
On older WM 5.0 Devices with 480x800 resolution, switching between portrait and landscape may cause display errors. This is due to lack of support for this resolution in early versions of Microsoft's driver.
You must click connect twice to use Opera Dragonfly

Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile phonesDifference between Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5

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Idan AdarYtseJam # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:26:21 AM

Did this version restore the support for RTL languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic?

Tamil # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:29:39 AM

thobi # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 7:39:15 AM

*wohoo*

kxp # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:14:41 AM

Wow great work!

Still has the Nokia E90 keyboard support issues (and a lot of them).

Oh yeah and still a feature i'd like to see - more speed dials. I have space on my E90 for 3x5 layout. Why not use it.

E: Hmm.. it seems it only synced about 2% of my home bookmarks, what's with that?

E2: There should be a possibility to save the used gateway in settings so i wouldn't need to choose it every time i start opera.

Topimrkukov # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:43:04 AM

Opera Link

asrialbaker # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 9:29:33 AM

Regarding Opera Link,

1. I can only synchronise some bookmarks.

2. There is no folder and notes synchronised.

3. Or did I miss something?...

Cheers!

*** Great job Opera team. You made my life more meaningful... :-)

Asri al-Baker
http://www.i-symbian.com

netwolf # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 9:47:16 AM

Nice

How does the download manager look and work? Is it better than the one for desktop?

endless lovepersianweblog # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:30:33 AM

doloop # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 11:12:01 AM

Opera link crash imediatly after connection on windows mobile opera 10 beta 2.
My account is doloop, my phone is htc-hd2 under french orange rom.

Mike Harveymharvey # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 1:38:17 PM

In the past (Opera 9.x on WinMo) Opera would ask if I wanted to Exit or Minimize Opera when I chose Exit. I could also click the X on the status bar to minimize. Neither of these are an option in 10. Can you bring the Minimize button back?

Philippkillerrabbit # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 2:03:49 PM

CharlieBAMAToNE # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 3:15:28 PM

Did Opera drop support for non-touch Windows Mobile phones?

FataL # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 3:46:12 PM

My SE p1i is waiting for UIQ version

cousin333 # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:24:56 PM

Opera Link doesn't work in Mobile nor in the Mini. It says it's synchronizing, and it seems to be a successful process. But none of my bookmarks are there. (Windows Mobile 6.1)

At least, it didn't mess up my bookmarks on my PC....

grycho # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 5:28:55 PM

With HTC Touch Hd and Win Mobile 6.1 Opera Link only synchronizes speed dial, not bookmarks. I did not get an error message

Mister Gbartpro # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:27:59 PM

It was giving me a 'not valid application' message. Installing worked after a soft reset and erasing the leftover opera mobile 10 directory.

BS-Harou # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:36:37 PM

Is there a way how to set scrolling like in OM 9.7? -> In OM 9.7 if i want to scroll only in axis Y it handle small deflections in axis X. But in OM 10beta (Windows Mobile) it scrolls even the little pixels in axis X and its quit annoying!

(sorry for my English).

BS-Harou # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:46:53 PM

+ background-attachment: fixed; in CSS is not working on Opera Mobile 10 but its working on Opera Mobile 9.7...

Stereotomy # Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:53:24 PM

[Opera Link]
Save transaction failed - 500 -
Could not validate internal
storageformat
[OK]

I have a Palm Treo Pro / WM 6.1 and put Opera Mobile on the storage card.

z@h3kZAHEK # Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:15:07 AM

It was nice version.Thanks.

agundam # Thursday, December 3, 2009 10:01:03 AM

Nice, but can you guys bring back Adaptive Zoom? It's really annoying having to manually adjust zoom in Settings so that certain webpages fit the screen width and not get blown up with huge lettering.

Using on a Windows Mobile 6.5 (Touch HD2!

)

Oh, and enabling Pinch Zoom would be icing on the cake.

hkultraman # Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:31:49 PM

Is there any plan for opera mobile 10 to support HTML5.

I want to use GMail mobile and Google Calendar Mobile

BS-Harou # Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:56:09 PM

Originally posted by agundam:

Nice, but can you guys bring back Adaptive Zoom? It's really annoying having to manually adjust zoom in Settings so that certain webpages fit the screen width and not get blown up with huge lettering.

+1000

Charles SchlossChas4 # Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:50:02 PM

Gwyn BleiddGwynBleidd123 # Friday, December 4, 2009 9:59:14 AM

Two features for this version to be completely useable for me: autorotate based on G-Sensor (doesn't work at all) and a working zoom bar (same). (HTC Touch Diamond 2) Other than that, thanks for a great piece of software.

Oh, and as many people state, bring back small snapping while vertical scrolling... It's odd that when you scroll with your finger, the page keeps bouncing left and right. Odd after getting used to 9.5-9.7 anyways.

two00lbwaster # Friday, December 4, 2009 5:33:15 PM

Hmmm, E71 still can't add special characters via pressing the special character button.

Animated gifs don't work (this is based on the previous version of the beta. Don't know about the current version.) They work on iPhone Safari though ;-) (iPhone safari doesn't do popup navigations though.)

dupel # Friday, December 4, 2009 10:00:03 PM

Definetly a good improvement. Though still some optimization is necessary - symbian (nokia) phones still die from time to time (especially if you decide to use tabs - that eats ALL of ram).

But, big improvement over first beta. Now its actually usable. And bides that - just awesome =)

PS. There is apperently new buld (320). What are the changes?

Rasqual # Friday, December 4, 2009 10:02:34 PM

thanks for your hard work.

having used Opera on wm6 since 9.5, I'd like To second #comment12224191's suggestions about adaptive zoom and pinch zoom (is it patented?)

also, I'd like to stress out how opera makes mobile browsing much more accessible and, dare I say, a pleasant experience. it has improved in an impressive way, one shall give you credit for that.

on a further personal plan, my nitpicks are the lack of feedback in fullscreen when clicking on a url (I suggest adding a small titlebar animation) and sometimes slowness when zooming in or out of an area (blank screen syndrom)
keep up the great work!

zephxiii # Sunday, December 6, 2009 4:23:42 AM

No WM Smartphone support?? Man this makes me sad. Smartphone is in dire need for a really good web browser, please solve this issue soon! OM 10 works great on non-touch s60, I hope you can bring that wonderfulness over to WM Smartphone as well!!

Tomas Prochazkatprochazka # Sunday, December 6, 2009 6:51:46 PM

Great work, especially with Link integration. I missing only RSS from Opera Mini.

But. Why doesn't work multitouch on HTC HD2? It work in Opera 9.7, but not in 10, exist any way how turn it on?

illiad # Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:19:38 AM

what do you mean by 'Smartphone' ???? I see only very vague definitions...

dfineboy # Tuesday, December 8, 2009 3:37:01 PM

Opera mobile 10 should support flash lite. Am hoping Nokia 5530 would soon be supported.

Al Garciaalgarcia # Wednesday, December 9, 2009 2:19:07 AM

this beta has nice improvements, the link and synced search engines are nice. i'm still having trouble with inline editing (which i know can be disabled) but i also found out i could hold the center key for enabling temprarily the fullscreen editor, which somehow fixes my problem.

i would like to see my bookmarks fully syncronized, the ability to browse my bookmarks up and down using 2 and b. it would also be great if opera remembers which acces point i use and an option to change it if i want to instead of asking me everytime i open the browser. also, i browse lots of mobile sites which dont render great here, i have to zoom in and its a pain, so i would appreciate n option where if i bookmark a site I can choose that particular bookmark to load in ssr/mobile view.
and last, would rock if there was a way to make OM10 default via associating the http:// protocol or something, even if that something is hacking. i would like to know. and last, sessions. if my browser or phone crashes i would like to be asked if i want to reopen my previous tabs.
In using a Nokia E63

Ide StoutjesdijkCrimi # Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:44:40 AM

next step, Flash support

BS-Harou # Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:19:36 PM

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Next step, freeing web from flash

No way, Flash is important!

BS-Harou # Wednesday, December 9, 2009 2:31:46 PM

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Hmm... main reason ppl install flash is to watch Youtube or other video site. I put more hopes in

flash is not just about video. There are thousands of flash games, websites and more. Flash is on of the most powerfull web technologies.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:03:03 PM

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Next step, freeing web from flash

May happen with HTML 5

illiad # Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:22:42 AM

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Hmm... main reason ppl install flash is to watch Youtube or other video site. I put more hopes in

the problem is, you are talking about .flv, not 'shockwave flash(.swf)' that almost every site uses...

BS-Harou # Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:54:40 PM

lwiczek: you should look at www.thefwa.com

biophil # Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:02:24 AM

Originally posted by YtseJam:

Did this version restore the support for RTL languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic?

It seems that not

Mikemkskeith # Monday, December 14, 2009 5:14:21 PM

why is picture quality so poor? 9.5 had great pic quality even whan zooming all the way in.

Haavardhaavard # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:09:30 AM

why is picture quality so poor?

You are probably using Opera Turbo.

abhisek243 # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:07:10 PM

I tried to download a file from rapidshare but failed.The browser DID ask me where to save the download but the download got paused by itself immediatly/instantly.Since rapidshare does not allow free users to resume a download this is a problem.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:58:09 PM

In Opera you can resume the download, in the downloads windows you can resume a download that is still listed in the downloads

ShusilkantaShusil # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:28:25 PM

Hai can u tell me is this support in nokia n73 and if not why don't this opera programmer make it useable this to n73, I need this please help. I think if they make it possible for n73 many people using n73 wil be happy and thanks to the team.

csternberg # Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:57:10 PM

Opera link doesn't work for me, says it synced but bookmarks are empty

[name hidden]thedicemaster # Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:30:40 PM

beta 2 crashes a lot for me.
didn't use it much yet, but it occured at varying points while entering/modifying the link settings(through normal and opera:config settings)
eventually i managed to configure link, but got the following error:
Save transaction failed - 500 -
Could not validate internal
storageformat
it could be caused by the install location(internal storage instead of device)
i'll try installing on the device itself to see if it works.
EDIT: seems link only works if you don't have an old profile from a previous version.
and even then, not all data is synched(for me only speeddial is synched, while bookmark synching is more important to me)

Murat Ozturk MOzturk # Friday, December 18, 2009 5:18:52 PM

I succeeded to sync the bookmarks. This what I did:
- Installing Opera Mobile on phone memory so I don't get the '500' error.
- Clean all the bookmarks and maps from Opera Mobile.
- Disable and then enable the opera link so it can syncronize.
- Make some maps on Opera Mobile (because you cant create maps in Opera Mini section by Opera Webrowser on Windows).
- Disable and then enable the opera link (again) so it can syncronize the created maps on Opera Webbrowser Windows.
- On Opera Webrowser Windows, I went to Bookmarks manager and moved the links I want to the maps that were created in Opera Mini section in the bookmarks. (When I copy the maps, and then paste on opera mini section, all the maps and bookmarks paste on the main place)
- Disable and then enable the opera link (again) so it can syncronize the bookmarks on Opera Mobile.
- Links are syncronized.
But when I go to Opera Webbrowser Windows, I see that the maps are dissapeard and all the links are placed in the main Opera Mini section.

There has to be a way to make this easier. Syncronizing bookmarks on internet explorer to pda is so easy, its just copy and past the maps with bookmarks and syncronize. Is there a way to do that also on Opera?

Secrius VivatSecrius # Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:45:33 PM

I has problem with syncronisation of bookmarks too.
It syncronize bookmarks only in "Opera Mini" folder (at bookmarks at my PC). On phone "Opera Mini" - is root of my bookmarks.

Phone: HTC Touch Diamond 2. WM6.5. Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2, installed on Memory Card (SD flash).
PC1: Win7 x32, Opera 10.10;
PC2: Win7 x32, Opera 10.10;
PC3: Linux kubuntu x64, Opera 10.10.

PS: between PC's syncronizaation work properly...

Razrazz22 # Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:20:29 PM

Been testing OM 10 on HTC HD2 WM 6.5. Looks very nice and good job with new tab function.

No landscape mode when rotating and pinch to zoom/multi touch would be great. Like OM 9.7 does support that.

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