Sunday, 4. November 2007, 10:01:15
release, beta, Opera Mini
Have been using Beta 3 for about a week now and I'm pleased to say that most of my original concerns have been solved server side. In fact I'm very impressed by the speed with which Opera sorted out these issues.
It seems to me that Opera Mini 4 is very close to a proper release, the OM Blog hints it could be by the end of the year. Hopefully, there will be some small speed increases when beta specific code is removed.
Thursday, 25. October 2007, 13:25:16
OM4B3, Beta 3, Opera Mini
Opera Mini Beta 3 is here, with a feature list that looks exciting. Being eager to test it out I downloaded it straight to my Nokia E61. It seemed to install ok, however when I ran it I got a message asking me to wait whilst it collected font information. (A message I had not seen in previous versions)
When the progress bar reached 90% the screen cleared and gave a "Failed to Connect to Internet" message. I clicked ok and the app closed! I ran it again, this time it got 75% through installing and got stuck. After waiting fifteen minutes it hadn't re-started so I closed the app.
I uninstalled it, turned off the phone for a few minutes and tried again. This time there was no font message and it worked well.
I've been experimenting with it and have mixed feelings.
Being able to synchronise with My Opera is a good idea, but I find the implementation awkward to use.
The layout on screen seems to be less accurate than in previous betas and 3.1 (For example, some sites render with a white border on left and right side, content folding seems to force text to black which means it won't show up on a dark background.)
Picture quality has been drastically improved.
My Opera forums have the ends of the lines missing, which means much scrolling back and forth. This is reported as a problem with the stylesheet.
I am impressed that a bug I reported has already been fixed.
Seems to be slower responding to button presses than previous betas/3.1
(20%)
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