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AccuWeather and Opera Mini

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I suppose many of you have used Opera Widget touchtheSky for a long time, that widget used AccuWeather's information.
Now users of Opera Mini look like to use weather informations with ease. From the Press Release of AccuWeather.com,

Opera Mini Web Browser Adds AccuWeather.com Mobile Web Link

Unfortunately in our country, despite having J2ME preinstalled, many cellphones does not work with Opera Mini so well, due to high and tight wall of careerer's fertile garden.

Another Opera on WILLCOM

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Today, we had a press show for next WILLCOM handsets, coming within months in Japan. The 2 of those new models are equipped with Opera.
One flag-ship model is WX330K, and the other is colourful and slim HONEY BEE.
The web=O is seen very well at MyCom Journal's shot.
BTW, Opera on those WILLCOM handset are version 7.2EX, which is basically a version 7.2 with many modifications.


[Added 21/Jan] engadget wrongly called HONEY BEE as WX330K, in reality it's 331K. Oh, that's not their fault, but of Akihabara news'.
Remember, even if you cannot read Japanese at all, try to look for any Alphabets in the ORIGINAL, in this case, at WILLCOM or KYOCERA.

Added 23/Jan Akihabara news fixed the mistake but engadget still not.

How do you test it, George?

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I read questioningly the article of Mr. George Ou, Technical Director of ZDNet, titled as "How can iPhone render pictures better than desktop computers?"

So took an screenshot of his example, with my Desktop Opera on Windows here.

The left picture is zoomed one, from the smallest picture of original, with desktop Opera, and three of the right are his original examples. How do you get the "Nearest neighbor" like picture with Opera?

His article itself is interesting, and maybe worth to read, but the incorrect as far as Opera's concerned, which I must say.

Joey, what is it?

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Yesterday morning, I've read an article, which some of you guys cited in various ways, from OS News.
I was interested in the mobile part, of the series of pages, like most of you. I just laughed at it and didn't want to point out what's not real, or so. Thank you for the interesting story, lawyer, thanks.

There is an interesting project among them, which I came to know with that interview. Joey, Firefox's add-on. At first, I read the interview, then open the wiki page, so I thought it works like OperaMini. But as wiki described, it just sends page you view to the server, the server transforms the contents into some full-desktop-grade-but-suitable-for-mobile, then the mobile devices re-transforms it to display on the small screen. That's what I understood. How can we control the pages on the screen, of the mobile devices you have? No ways? Is it one-way transfer of the contents what you view on the desktop PC?

I have never met any person within Moz community who is interested in mobile Firefox or Minimo. They used to say, do you like to view pages on such a small screen?

I think the most difficult problem for the Joey project is resources of human being. Among the free software communities, volunteers often come to the popular projects, with or without wages. Unpopular projects end up soon or later, as we learned from Fedora Legacy Project.

Opera on Palm

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There is a long waited petiton by Palm users, to port Opera Mobile browser into Palm OS.
We petition Opera Software to development a version of their Web Browser for the Palm OS platform.

Then, here it is!
Opera Software today announced that it has signed an agreement with Palm, Inc., to deliver its Opera 9 Web browser to Palm for use in upcoming products.

In the near future, Palm user can use Opera Mobile 9, as well as Opera Mini which has been already used for a while.

[Edit] As pointed out at comments by Andrew, it might run on Windows Mobile OS. Sorry for my hastiness.

Deepfish vs Opera Mini

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There are two Engadget both in English and Japanese.

According to the Engadget Japanese, Deepfish uses client-server system, just like Opera Mini.
From the article, it's my summary, in case you are not satisfied with machine translation of the Japanese page.

Opera is good at renderings for low resolution, small screen, on the other hand MS's Pocket IE is behind by two light year. So here is the preview of Deepfish for Windows Mobile. The server sends pre-rendered thumbnail graphics, the mobile devices just got it and display on its screen, to save time, as the results.