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Even the first beta version of Opera was a real relevation for the Pocket PC community. Much as it had several bugs (particularly on pre-Windows Mobile 5 devices), it has quickly become the browser of choice for many Pocket PC users (including me), at least on Windows Mobile 5.
The new version is, speed-wise, clearly the best browser I've ever seen for the Pocket PC. It's much-much faster than the alternatives. You'll certainly love it!
The good
* The WM2003(SE) version seems to be working great: I haven't encountered the infamous Opera-is-stalled bug under pre-WM5 operating system any more. I've tested the new version of Opera with all the test pages (the search facility at http://www.europe.com/en/ - screenshot here; RedHotPawn) that make the previous version stall at once. No problems encountered so far.
This may be related to the fact that now Opera senses some Web servers' not answering – see this and this message.
A iPAQ 2210 screenshot can be seen here and here (the latter taken at 25% zoom level so that the entire chessboard is visible) – as can be seen, as opposed to b1, I could log in and play on my iPAQ 2210 as well.
* It feels much faster than beta1, which is a feat in itself because beta 1 was already much faster than any alternative browser.
* There's tab support! (See the screenshots provided for examples.)
* The bug related to not being able to display loooooong pages is fixed. It worked great with all the pages I've thrown it at; an example screenshot of Tero Lehto's blog is here.
* Much as the new version is still using custom (non-native) GUI components, one of the biggest problems, that is, the text areas hiding the last characters in each row behind the scrollbar, is fixed as can be seen in here.
* The "You have XX days left of your trial period" dialog is no longer displayed at startup.
(There must be tons of other bugfixes, as far as previous beta1 bugs are concerned; these were the ones I've explicitly tested and compared to beta1.)
The bad
* After scrolling a page with any amount (or going to a new page), you will not be able to directly tap-and-hold a link to bring up the context menu (so that you can open the link in a new tab) without the need for at least partially highlight it (or the text that contains it). Fortunately, this is a minor annoyance and you'll quickly learn how to highlight (part) the link without clicking it.
* The new version is still using custom GUI components, which makes it impossible to use any kind of common Windows keyboard shortcuts. This is a mayor annoyance to anybody using an external keyboard to enter a lot of texts and wanting to use the traditional Windows shortcuts to quickly navigate through / highlight / copy/cut/paste text in the text input components.
* On some Pocket PC's (for example, the Pocket Loox 720) the new version still uses non-proportional Courier New fonts in the address bar / in the tab titles. This is a minor annoyance, though.
* Unfortunately, the settings dialogs (screenshot 1 and 2) are as simple as in beta1. The latter, however, now has a new checkbox, " Set Opera as default browser", which makes it unnecessary to manually import a registry file (please see the articles in the Recommended links section for the registry import file I've created for beta1 to revert the default browser assignments) in order to revert back to using Pocket Internet Explorer (if you make Opera the default Web browser on your Pocket PC).
Nevertheless, the lack of detailed settings dialogs are not a problem – with manually editing (or, downloading my sample configuration files) the main configuration files of Opera, you can fine-tune it (scrollbar visibility, proxy usage, scroll behaviour etc).
* Under WM2003, Menu/Display/Landscape still doesn't rotate the viewport. Again, this would be pretty easy to implement because Opera, unlike for example the Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) plug-ins or almost all ( uBook and Mobipocket Reader being the most important exceptions) e-book readers, doesn't need to rely on the Portrait-only, underlying PIE engine. This is a minor problem though and "only" affecting WM2003 users – screen rotation works great in post-WM2003 operating systems.
* Still no advanced context menus (copy link, save image), no in-page searching etc. These are, however, only minor annoyances, which don't have a negative effect on the browsing experience itself.
* Still no " One Column" view mode like that of PIE starting with WM2003SE or the PIE plug-in PIEPlus (see this review on the latest version of latter, including a detailed comparison of the "one column" modes offered by PIE and PIEPlus). This would be very useful to maximize the usage of the available screen estate on many pages; for example, the XDA-Dev forums (example screenshot of Opera 8.5b2 rendering the latter here – as can be seen, the useful contents of the page only occupies about 65-70% of the available horizontal screen estate. With a real "One Column" mode, it'd be close to 100%).
* Still no support for system-level favourites. This would also be really easy to implement as there's nothing particular about the .url files in \Windows\Favorites – they're really-really easy to process. (I'd say a hour's work for an average C++ programmer.)
Verdict
I can only use superlatives when speaking of this application. Despite its (still) missing functionalities, its speed and compatibility is just phenomenal.
Recommended links
The following articles/tips all discuss/are all related to the previous, beta 1 version. Note that some of their contents is now that they are fixed are outdated. They may still be worth checking out - particularly the ones on manually editing the Opera configuration files. You'll find a lot of information in these articles never published by anyone else.
ESSENTIAL (NEW, UNIQUE BUGFIXES!!!) to know about the great Web browser, Opera beta! - I haven't run into the same problem with the new Opera version – yet. This doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist any more – therefore, if the address bar auto-completion crashes your Pocket PC with beta2 too, make sure you read this article.
Modify the default scrolling behaviour of Pocket PC Web browsers. Note that even the beta 2 of Opera uses jump-by-link by default (on all operating systems, not just WM5), as far as its D-pad navigation is concerned; you will most probably want to override this and switch to the 'scroll a page at a time' behaviour. Note that the new scroll a page feature (invokable via the Space key) only works on devices with a built-in keyboard; for example, on the HTC Wizard (screenshot of Opera running on my HTC Wizard here).
Opera 8.5 beta on WM5 - it is certainly different from the WM2003(SE) version and is working GREAT!
WM5 compliance report: the bandwidth reduction service OnSpeed works pretty good; additional Toonel information – this article will be useful for everyone that wants to configure his or her Opera to access the Web sites through a HTTP proxy.
Pocket PC version of Famous Web Browser, Opera 8.5 beta Officially Released!
There are many surprises waiting inside, including support for the Flash Lite ActiveX control, big performance gains, reduced memory usage, preliminary RSS and SVG support, the highest Acid3 score of any shipping mobile browser, and HTC accelerometer support.
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Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=18
Download Link: http://www.torchmobile.com/download/ (You're only required to provide a name and email address for download)
If you've tried it before, give it another chance as they've been making improvements. I would best describe this browser as what Fennic beta/alpha should have been.
It's based on the WebKit rendering engine (same engine used by Safari and iPhone browsers). It's a later version of WebKit since it gets further in the ACID 3 test (100/100) than the release versions of those browsers, and much further than any other Windows Mobile browser. So it's a good choice for those heavy CSS/Javascript web pages.
For the full feature look here:
http://www.torchmobile.com/products/iris.html
Here's a video of Iris in action on Windows Mobile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpX5JZWtu-g
Here are my observations:
Pros:
Free
Fairly fast
Very standards compliant (100/100) on Acid 3 tests
Native support for HTC Touch Pro/Diamond accelerometers
Direct, doesn't go through a proxy like Opera Mini or Skyfire (which is good if you're paranoid about security/proxy availability)
Tabs
Can simulate a mouse cursor in "Mouse Cursor" mode
Downloading support, though did silently crash once when trying to download Google Maps cab
Cons:
Can't figure out how to copy/paste text.
No text reflow/reformat on zoom-in like Opera Mini and certain versions of Opera Mobile 9.5
Extremely basic UI, every function has to be accesed through menus which gets kind of clunky
Zooming is clunky, zooming in more than one level/accessing the URL bar requires you to go through the menu system
Getting Flash Content to Display:
(From PPCGeek's member Torx)
Install Juggalo Flash CAB (attached) into main memory (if you don't already have Flash Lite 3.1 installed).
Unzip NPFL3ppc.zip (attached) and copy NPFL3ppcdll into the \Program files\Iris Broswer\plugins folder.
Restart Iris, and Flash content will be replaced with a black box and play button. Press the play button to play the Flash content!
Note: YouTube videos seem to display, but not play, other embedded Flash content works.
Additional Notes
Reports of some HTC Touch Pro (aka Fuze) and Diamond phones freezing. They believe this is due to a driver bug on the phone and they are working on a workaround. Please check their blog for updates.
http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/
Tip: Tap and hold link to go to visit links and give focus to certain form fields (checkboxes/textboxes).
Changelog
v1.1.3 (Updated 02/23/2009) - Touch Pro (Fuze), Diamond Users (maybe) Rejoice! It appears that while this fixes the problem for some users, it doesn’t fix it for all. We’re continuing to search for the problem and will post another update soon.
Other fixes/changes include:
Plugin (like FlashLite) interaction fixes
Animated GIF fixes
Re-activation of an optimization for some JavaScript intensive sites
Many editing bugs are fixed (yes, you can blog with it again!)
All known and reported crashes are fixed
Improved memory management for large images
Minor canvas improvements
Performance improvements, including 12% faster JavaScript
Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=20
v1.1.2 (Updated 02/20/2009) - Contains numerous fixes including one for low-resolution devices, several crashes, text shadow, some potential Touch Pro / Diamond freezes, and problems with some iPhone libraries.
Finally, we’ve done a lot of work to make sure we’re really one of the most compliant, precise, and high-quality rendering mobile browsers. We now score 100/100 on Acid3 with only a couple of minor rendering glitches. Those happen to be related to fonts, where we deliberately cut some corners for better performance. It’s not likely we will eliminate those glitches anytime soon. Iris Browser is also highly compatible with the popular iPhone websites, making it a great alternative for those who prefer other devices. We think the approach we’ve taken strikes a great balance between performance and functionality, and we’re just getting started!
Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=19
v1.1.1 (Updated 02/17/2009) - Fixes some reported problems with the Diamond/Touch Pro (check the comments section of the blog entry above for more information).
Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=18#comment-71
Thanks for the update
I've been using Iris for awhile and I'm very happy with it. I'm eager to see what improvements they've made.
wow, this is really a nice update.
I was using 1.0.6 and though it was nice (using iphone optimized versions ) it was a bit buggy. this new version is a lot better!
Bump for v1.1.2 update, and instructions on how to get flash to work.
Have a look at Zinio with Iris
If you don't know, Zinio.com is a site where you buy and view digital magazine subscriptions. Doesn't usually work with WM. Meh. But . . browse there with Iris, look under Zinio Labs, and tap IPhone. You now can read a bunch of FREE magazines on your phone, zooming and panning at will. I could not believe the selection. I could'nt look at these for free on the PC even, but if they think you have a JeebusPhone, they throw free stuff at you.
Anyway, Ithought it was cool, and hope you will too.
Webkit FTW!
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Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=18
Install Juggalo Flash CAB (attached) into main memory (if you don't already have Flash Lite 3.1 installed).
Unzip NPFL3ppc.zip (attached) and copy NPFL3ppcdll into the \Program files\Iris Broswer\plugins folder.
Restart Iris, and Flash content will be replaced with a black box and play button. Press the play button to play the Flash content!
Note: YouTube videos seem to display, but not play, other embedded Flash content works.
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Where are these attached flash cabs?
v1.1.3 released
v 1.1.3 is now released.
Source: http://www.torchmobile.com/blog/?p=20
Fixes include:
* Plugin (like FlashLite) interaction fixes
* Animated GIF fixes
* Re-activation of an optimization for some JavaScript intensive sites
* Many editing bugs are fixed (yes, you can blog with it again!)
* All known and reported crashes are fixed
* Improved memory management for large images
* Minor canvas improvements
* Performance improvements, including 12% faster JavaScript
And some fixes for Touch Pro/Diamond users.
Seems like there's still some bugs there, but it's improving with every release. At least it's quite usable these days.
Thanks willl, OP updated.
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Thanks willl, OP updated.
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Cool! I've also linked to your thread from my latest Web browsing article (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485315 )
They've just posted a new "Under The Hood" post on their blog for anyone who's interested.
They posted some interesting benchmark results using SunSpider:
* Access NetFront 3.5 2388.7s
* Opera Mobile 9.5 (built-in) 219.0s
* Pocket IE (built-in) Unable to complete
* Iris Browser 1.1.2 115.0s
That said, benchmarks run by vendors sources should always be taken with a grain of salt!
Tried out iris and liked it overall. As mentioned above, the lack of text reflow is unfortunate. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is I found it difficult to click on links. Either I'm doing something wrong, or you have to press and hold for a second to click a link. If you just tap the screen quickly, as I normally do in all other browsers, it doesn't register with iris. This must have something to do with how the browser differentiates between scrolling and clicking?
In any case, I plan to keep it installed, as it's nice to be able to flawlessly access the iphone versions of sites like facebook and gmail. However, for most of my browsing, I'd rather use opera mobile, or even better, opera mini. I like speed!
-Ben
You are right. To activate a link you have to kind of press and hold for a moment. This does not bother me too much but the problem of no proper text reflow is what is preventing to make this my daily use browser. If this is sorted out I am sure this will be my primary browser.
Regards
Well, with a non-touch screen phone you have no such problems
Joking aside, they've released another new version (1.1.4).
Which includes the following changes/fixes:
* Fixes for zoom scale
* Performance improvements in various areas
* Fixes for some EUC-JP encoded sites, other encoding fixes
* JavaScript fixes for some sites
* Rendering artifacts fixed on some dynamic sites like Google Reader iPhone edition
* All reported crashes fixed (potentially also the HTC Touch Pro/Diamond freezes some users still see)
* Minor improvements to the key configuration for Smartphone Edition
* Some additional registry keys to disable or override behavior, including backlight keep-awake, animations
* Check box to disable automatic zoom to fit
* WebFonts, resulting in “pixel perfect” Acid3 rendering
Also, if you have bug reports, send them an email with reproducible steps - feedback-wm [at] torchmobile.com (replace [at] with @).
Thanks for the info
Just updated.
Initial impressions: Big improvement in page loading speed, and in response to screen taps.
Nice update
great application! thks for info, 4 updating...
v1.1.5 Update now available
Almost seems like, another day another update! At least you know they are actively developing the app. I think it's actually quite usable as is, but improvements of minor bugs/quirks is always nice.
This time it's another minor bug fixes/performance improvements.
From their blog:
Iris Browser 1.1.5 for Windows Mobile was released today. As with all 1.1.x releases, this release is focused on bug fixes and performance enhancement. Some highlights include:
* Noticeably faster scrolling
* Up to 25% improvement in page load time
* Improvements to text input
* Rendering and layout improvements
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To update your version of the browser select the Page menu > Options > Preferences
Then click on the last button that says "Check for update". It'll then check for the latest updates and if a new version is found will update you to the newest version.
The OP probably needs to be updated again
Wow, new updates are happening quite fast now.
It's up to v1.1.6 now.
# Performance improvements
* Some pages load up to 25% faster
* Scrolling performance improved
* Painting speed improved
# History fixes
# New registry flag to control the minimum and maximum zoom levels - use at your own risk!
# Zoom scheme changes based on user requests and bug reports
# Some site specific fixes
# EUC-KR support improvements
# Some hidden features
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To me, at this stage the browser is quite usable/stable for most of my needs. But unsure if it'll ever be my "default" browser. I still use PIE for a few things here and there, as well as Opera Mini.
The latest version of this software (as of apr 1st) is awesome!
-mark
They really have to work on at least two things: Text flowing and easier zooming.
The way Opera 9.5 does zooming makes sense to me.. Double-tap and it zooms a bit, if you double tap-hold it seems to zoom in farther. If you double-tap when zoomed in, it zooms out. Plus there is the zoom tool on the screen, and some versions you can use the volume wheel to adjust zoom.
Zooming on Iris is painful. For me it seems like the only zooms that are useful are 50% and 100%. 50% is easy to scroll around and find stuff, but not interact or read it, and 100% is too large. Hopefully they'll sort this sort of thing out soon.
Otherwise, it seems to scroll pretty well, haven't noticed it "bounce around" like Opera does (scrolling down a page, suddenly it ZOOMS off some random direction) but the font rendering at <100% is pretty poor. Seems I can read the unzoomed text in Opera and not have to zoom in quite as far.
Launching links works fine for me, although I think they need to document how to do it somewhere. IS there documentation anywhere? In Opera I all-too-often accidentally re-zoom rather than open a link, Iris it seems to be very consistent.
So there are rough edges, but generally it works pretty decent. I haven't used it extensively yet, just looked at the rendering of a few of my own websites and such. I'll give it a 'real world' test sometime on this forum and some other complex websites.
Oh, built-in updating is nice too. Skyfire is a pain to update, although honestly I like Skyfire less and less so it's not really a big deal. I'll still probably use PIE as my default as it launches instantly and it works as a general purpose browser. But I have a mortscript which opens the current PIE URL in Opera, I'll have to update it for Iris now.
with adobe lite 3.1, youtube works.
video a bit choppier than my E71 (symbian s60), but still works, and audio is smooooth... this is on my treo pro, wm 6.1
THANKS!!
Bitstream releases BOLT 1.5 - the most reliable, stable and fastest browser in market
We are proud to announce that we’re officially dropping the beta tag with today’s release of BOLT 1.5. New features include viewing videos of any length, a dedicated search bar, a download manager that downloads files directly from BOLT, improved navigation and text rendering, and caching support. Version 1.5 includes a host of new features designed to improve usability and stability, including:
Server upgrades (make v1.5 more than 15% faster than Beta3)
Cache support that enables directly browsing back to a previously visited page
Download manager that downloads files directly within BOLT on JSR 75 capable devices
Dedicated search bar, enabling search on popular search engines directly from BOLT
Enhanced column width control that auto-aligns the text to columns for ease of reading
Enhanced video support that includes inline media playing capability even on low-end devices
Enhanced copy-paste support for BlackBerry devices
Support for streaming videos of any length
Volume UP/DOWN controls in the inline media player
Ability to rearrange the subscribed feeds using the 'grab' feature
Access to History links from the URL window with inline editing OFF
One click access on Home Page that ensures the cursor jumps to the desired widget
Download:
Code:
http://boltbrowser.com/aindex
this appears to be a java browser? am i correct?
is there a windows mobile cab somewhere?
Bolt has always been a Java browser, that's why I don't use it. It feels too limited for me.
I have made a bundled for local install. However, the notify still connects, but it should minimize the download. Full Cert version (dual signed) attached. Unzip, run the jad using your Java (JBED/JBlend). It should use the local bolt.jar file.
Java or not Java, I've been enjoying Opera Mini a lot, and been beta testing BOLT (not so good that time). I'll test again now that they have much richer options (including disable picture/image, which is important to me)
Does anyone know how to get the youtube flash content working in bolt? When I click on the selected video it ask to "Open URL"? And when I click yes it says, "Opera Invoke error". Any Ideas? Do I possibly need another program or something to get this to work.
it suck
i can't play video every time i click on play it loading to 100%then again show me to click plsy button then again circle goes on....why?HTC P3400
Youtube does't play too.
where's the back button?
UPDATE!!!
Updated BOLT 1.7
Extract, run the bolts2local.jad file that will pickup the local jar instead of going to the net.
Enjoy ..
BOLT 2.0 Beta
BOLT 2.0 Beta features include: socket transport protocol, copy-paste operations, favorites/feeds organization, inline editing, find in page feature, download manager, password manager and up to 3XL magnification.
Really fast on my Artemis WM 6.5.5 using Cloudyfa Esmertec Jbed. Excellent for reading and replying to xda-forum.
Can anyone suggest a suitable MIDlet manager that works from SD card and handles passwords?
Cheers
Tom
P.S. See added attached thumbnail of post being written in BoltBrowser:
with no flash this is just another browser frankly .
Bolt 2.1
Bolt 2.1 now available
http://boltbrowser.com/
"BOLT is a full featured mobile Web browser that supports widgets, direct Twitter and Facebook integration, streaming videos, RSS feeds, social media sites, Google Maps".
Can someone write a widget for xda-developers please?
Cheers
Tom
help!
Anyone help me, connection problem it can't connect using WIFI. I have O2 XDA Zinc other browser was able to connect via WIFI only Bolt that can't connect..
has anyone tried bolt 2.3? http://boltbrowser.com/dnld.html
mr8820 said:
has anyone tried bolt 2.3? http://boltbrowser.com/dnld.html
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Yes - Boltbrowser automatically updates to 2.3 which introduced a dowload site to help them make some money. Now that Skyfire has abandoned WM I use Bolt more along with Opera mini.
Every browser has advantages and disadvantages. I like the RSS feeds and large fonts.
Cheers, Tom
bolt browser
'opera invoke error' keep getting this from all video link on bolt browser 2.3
While there are very-very few new releases for Windows Mobile (almost all of the games and a lot of app/utility developers seem to have jumped ship and went straight for the iPhone), Web browsers seem to continuously receive love from app developers. At MWC (where I was also present), there have been even two major, new releases (the new Opera Mobile and BOLT).
I didn’t bother with looking up the links for my reviews of the previous Web browser versions listed. You may still want to take a look on them – just look around HERE.
Let’s start with Opera.
Opera has (lately) come out with new versions of their two browsers with largely the same interface (at least on touchscreen platforms; the non-touchscreen Opera Mini is vastly different; note that, with the new Opera Mobile beta, the touchscreen-less MS Smartphone aka Windows Mobile Standard has also received official support):
Opera Mobile 10 beta 3
It, now, also officially supports Flash Lite (up to now, this was only available through manual hacking and using unofficial versions), with an additional twist: it only shows them when they’re really needed; that is, a Flash-heavy web page won’t bring your phone to its knees. (See THIS for more info - linked from HERE)
Should you need an XDA-Devs one-tap installer with Flash Lite built-in (and a lot of other goodies like automatic rotation on some newer HTC phones with built-in accelerometers), download version 1.1 HERE (linked from HERE; official thread HERE). I’ve tested it (as with the official Opera Mobile 10b3) and found it excellent. If you need prompt support for Flash Lite, go for this distribution in the first place. Nevertheless, don’t forget that Flash Lite has pretty bad performance on everything not having an 1 GHz Snapdragon – don’t bother with, say, watching YouTube videos on a WinMo phone / PDA with a, say, 624 MHz XScale CPU. Use the alternatives – there are quite a lot – I’ve explained in my YouTube bible. Nevertheless, it can still be of great help with Flash sites otherwise not compatible with any other players (see my Flash Lite compatibility list HERE).
Opera Mini 5 beta2
The new, beta 2 version of Opera Mini 5 was released on 12/02/2009; see THIS for more info. It already supports a lot of goodies and is much-much better than the pretty much useless beta1.
There is a one-step all-in-one download package HERE, which, in addition to beta2, also has Jbed 20090216.5.1 bundled. Just start the CAB; it’ll set everything up – it’s an absolutely hassle-free install great for newbies. (On phoneless PDA’s, you will, of course, need the “dumb” Phone / SMS DLL’s for it to work.) After installing, a new Opera Mini icon will be displayed in Programs, along with the Java icon. The former can be used to even more quickly start the browser.
Note that, despite the bundled Jbed version is meant for QVGA devices (that is, it doesn’t have the necessary Registry hacks to make character sizes larger) works – with the largest chars – just great on large-screen WinMo VGA phones too. Now, on my test HP 214 VGA WinMo PDA, it’s working flawlessly (except for the still-lacking italic characters), unlike the first, barely-working beta of version 5. Even Opera Link is supported and working great. It also has a large on-screen keyboard taking up more than the bottom half of the screen, even in landscape mode, and pretty well usable with fingers on larger-screen devices.
Copying text from web pages also works great. Should you want to paste your text into an external program (e.g., Notes), do the following:
- Tap-and-hold the screen anywhere
- Select “Select Text” from the pop-up menu
- Select the text (with the stylus / your finger) you’d like to copy to the clipboard; when you finish selecting (raise the stylus / your finger from the screen), a context menu will appear. Select “Search With” from it.
- Tap-and-hold the text input field until the context menu is displayed; from it, select Fullscreen Edit.
- In the Fullscreen Edit (that is, the native text input / edit area of Jbed) mode, make sure the cursor is at the very end of the text (by default, it will be). Now, activate both Ctl and Shift on the on-screen keyboard (tap them once to change color) and, with the stylus, tap the beginning of the text. It’ll then be highlighted; now, on the on-screen keyboard, deactivate Shift and just tap C (while Ctl is still active) to copy the currently (!) selected text to the system clipboard. With this, it’ll become available for other apps, not only Opera Mini. (Note that Ctl + A, to select all text, doesn’t work; neither does the standard, stylus-based, standard text selection.)
You may ask why so many steps are needed. The answer is simple: we needed to switch to the full screen mode (native) editor because the in-app text copy didn’t make the text available for external apps, only Opera Mini itself. It was only by re-copying it from the full screen mode (native) editor that we could make it available for all the other, external apps.
Note that this method only works with MIDlet managers that do support copy/paste in their native text editor. Not all of them do (for example, the outdated TAO Intent couldn’t), as can also be seen in the “Text input: cut/paste?” row of THIS chart.
SkyFire 1.5
SkyFire has just come out with the new version of their excellent Web browser, SkyFire. (Press release HERE). The new version, among other things, supports high-resolution, that is, (W)VGA devices in that the text /images are no longer “blocky” or “pixelizated”, az opposed to previous versions.
I’ve thoroughly tested it on my HP iPAQ 210 and found it excellent. Even YouTube streaming went on acceptably over a 128 kbps DSL connection way-way away (in Finland). Now, I can only recommend the new version – if the lack of tabs isn’t a problem with you, you may like the new version very much. Of course, in my opinion, it isn’t better than, say, iCab Mobile (the best Web browser on the mobile Apple platforms) on an iPhone 3G S, despite what some pundits state.
NetFront 4.0 Concept Version
While Access no longer plans to offer their NetFront web browser to the general public (NetFront, officially, can only be purchased bundled with a phone), I have still tested the “concept” version (available for download HERE) of the latest, 4.0 version.
It, now, has six tabs, which is way more usable than the two of the previous concept (trial) versions. The Browser Settings has really been redesigned (most of the previous settings seem to have been completely removed). It also has a new “PC View” mode, which may be something similar to the “Desktop view” mode of Internet Explorer Mobile.
Unfortunately, unlike with the two Opera’s (both Mini and Mobile) or SkyFire, its usage is still very awkward with finger-only usage – it uses standard menus to, for example, switch to full screen mode. I’ve also continuously run into memory outage problems with large forum pages (say, with 500 posts) – NetFront has always used more memory to render Web pages than even Opera Mobile, let alone the even more memory-conscious Opera Mini.
Therefore, particularly given that the previous tree browsers are way better, quicker etc., I don’t recommend NetFront 4 at all – its days are simply over (as opposed to the “good old” PPC2k2 days, when it was the only alternative browser, along with Thunderhawk), it seems.
Bolt 1.70
This now-excellent Java-based browser has received a lot of goodies lately:
- Support for Russian has just been implemented; however, there’s no support for other non-Western languages (for example, Middle/Far-East or East-European) languages at all
- Widget support
- Copy/paste support. To make use of this, tap-and-hold the screen (or select Menu / Page Tools / Select Text) and select the text. (Note that you don’t need to make sure all of the text is inside the selection box – you can just draw a vertical line, it’ll still select all the surrounding text.) After finishing highlighting the text block, select Menu / Search (NOT Copy!). From then, do exactly the same as in the case of Opera Mini (Ctl + Shift – highlight; Ctl-C: copy to the system clipboard).
I’ve tested it, just like Opera Mini, on my HP iPAQ 210 running Jbed 20090216.5.1.
You can download Bolt from HERE.
This browser is also highly recommended – particularly if you don’t need multiple tabs (which it, unfortunately, still doesn’t support) and/or non-Western / Russian languages (Opera Mini is compatible with every language as long as you don’t use its “smallest”, custom and Western-only character set) and/or you absolutely need italic support, which Opera Mini isn’t capable of.
Firefox (Fennec) 1.0 alpha 3
I’ve also tested the latest (released in Sept 2009) alpha 3 of the official Firefox port, Fennec - which has nothing to do with the now-abandoned Minimo project. The browser is available HERE.
I’ve found the browser far from usable. In my tests done on the HP iPAQ 210, the browser always crashed (requiring a reset) after loading a page. The other, reviewed browsers didn’t exhibit this problem. Moreover, it was considerably slower than the other browsers. In a word, I in no way recommend this browser – for the time being, just stay away, there are waaaaay better browsers out there, some of them even for free. (Note that there may be different opinions on the usability of this version; see for example THIS).
netfront 4.o sucks......
i cannot even download a thing from it...
like 3.5 instead
Thanks Menneisyys!
Nice to see you around
Good old Web-Viewer v1.2.3 (30 March 2009)
Web Viewer for WM5/6
http://www.anbsoftware.co.uk/viewproduct.php?id=11
[C/P from the above webpage]
This program has been developed to give Windows Mobile users the facility to have a very useful and functional tabbed web browser. Other tabbed mobile web browsers are either bulky, slow, or not free. This program is entirely free to use and uses Pocket Internet Explorer to display the web pages.
v1.2 Features
Screenshots;
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
* Option to save open tabs when closing
* Rotate screen
* Clear cache and cookies buttons
* Clear cache and cookies on exit options
* Increased 'F' (file menu) size for easier access
* Web page receives focus on selecting associated tab
* Added cut, copy, and paste to address bar
* Option to hide tab when only viewing one page
* Option to turn off acquiring title of page (speeds up page loading time)
* Save options on exit: full screen, view tabs, screen rotation, etc
* Multiple language support using an editable language file. Now supports Unicode.
Features
* Tabbed Browser
* Standard Navigation Buttons (Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop)
* Open links in new tab
* Duplicate tab
* View Source (customise external viewer/editor)
* Remember closed tabs
* Remember typed URLs
* Full Screen mode
* Hide Tabs Option (to increase viewing area)
* Various Tab Options (Close, Close Others, Reload All)
Notes
This software is NOT supported on Windows Mobile for SmartPhone.
This program has been developed using Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0.7045.0, which is required to run it. Only this version will work as there are numerous bugs in previous versions, as well as this one, but this is the one that is most stable and enables the functionality to open new tabs.
Favourites are managed by Pocket Internet Explorer.
There is a known issue when navigating, the back/forward buttons do not function correctly (device dependant). For example, when you click on a link for the first time you should be allowed to "go back". However, due to bugs in Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and the device this may not register correctly that you can "go back". However, there is a workaround, which is to go to another tab and then return. This then registers correctly. Alternatively, you can use the context menu to select 'Back'.
:END
I set Web-Viewer to \Windows\Favorites\
and use iexplore.exe to handle new favorites.
Have fun with this stable (103.5 Kb) superfast tabbed browser,
Senax
Great stuff Menneisyys. Opera all the way for me.
orb3000 said:
Thanks Menneisyys!
Nice to see you around
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Yeah, I've been very-very busy lately...
any info about UCWEB? it's a good browser too and come in windows mobile native so no need jbed anymore
Personally, I am happy with Opera 10.0 mobile... Like it a lot!
Scott
What about XScope browser...? The first thing that comes to mind when I use it is "Firefox mobile better be damn good or else."
This browser is one of the fastest out there for Android currently (some say it actually IS the fastest). It has tabbed browsing, ability to mod theme, a new way to zoom (dbl tap and move finger) and much much much more... Oh yeah it actually has FULL screen browsing. It hides the notification bar unless you enable it and hides the address bar unless you need it too.
If no one has used it I'd write a review with a few screenshots to post in here.
Let me know.
Enndr said:
What about XScope browser...? The first thing that comes to mind when I use it is "Firefox mobile better be damn good or else."
This browser is one of the fastest out there for Android currently (some say it actually IS the fastest). It has tabbed browsing, ability to mod theme, a new way to zoom (dbl tap and move finger) and much much much more... Oh yeah it actually has FULL screen browsing. It hides the notification bar unless you enable it and hides the address bar unless you need it too.
If no one has used it I'd write a review with a few screenshots to post in here.
Let me know.
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Does it have a native WinMo version? I coulnd't find any track of it...
Right now its for Android only. I don't think this guy has plans to cross it over to other mobile operating systems but who knows.
Like it a lot!
good resource.
General
Hi everybody, I am a new member just joined the community
to share my knowledge with others.
opera is the best guys
General
Hi everybody, I am a new member just joined the community to share my knowledge with others. This is the best place to share our opinions. Good resource.
-annasmith
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Browser
Thanks to Menneisyys about the info, I'really lika opera and firefox by asianbraindotcom
:laugh: ucweb maybe:good:
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learn :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
opera is the no. 1 in my opinion
Personally, I am happy with Opera 10.0 mobile... Like it a lot!
Hi everyone,
I have been working very hard on this one. It is a free torrent client for android. Hope you like it!
Flud is a simple and beautiful BitTorrent client for android. The power of BitTorrent protocol is now in the palm of your hands. Share files with ease from your phone/tablet. Download files directly to your phone/tablet.
Features :
* No speed limits on downloads/uploads
* Ability to select which files to download
* Ability to specify file/folder priorities
* Magnet link support
* NAT-PMP, DHT, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
* µTP (µTorrent Transport Protocol) , PeX (Peer Exchange) support
* Ability to download sequentially
* Ability to move files while downloading
* Supports torrents with large number of files
* Supports torrents with very big files (Note: 4GB is the limit for FAT32 formatted SD cards)
* Recognizes magnet links from the browser
* Has option to download on WiFi only
* Ability to change theme (Light, Dark, Light with dark actionbar)
* Modern (Holo) UI
* Tablet optimized UI
Many more features coming soon...
You feedback is very important. Don't hesitate to drop us a mail if you find any bug or you would like to see a new feature in the next version.
If you are giving less than 5 stars, please leave a review telling us what you didn't like in the app.
Get it from the play store
Version 0.9.4.1 (16 June 2014)
* Fixed a crash on Android version below Honeycomb.
Version 0.9.4 (16 June 2014)
* Added "Force reannounce", "Keep CPU awake", "Download only when charging", "Play notification sound" options
* New option to enable/disable tracker exchange
* It is now possible to edit torrent name
* UI modifications for tablets
* Updated Openssl to fix the heartbleed bug
* New translations for Czech (Čeština) and Hungarian (Magyar)
* Killed many bugs
Version 0.7.1
* Fixed a critical bug which caused Flud to stop running in the background
* Fixed some crashes
* Minor UI changes for tablets
Version 0.7.0
* The UI is now tablet optimized! (Currently for android 3.2+ only)
* Added dark theme
* Added basic Italian translation
* ETA is now displayed in the torrent list (Main Screen)
* Added "Share magnet link" option
* Bugfixes
XDA:DevDB Information
Flud -Torrent Downloader, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
Bhambya, Bhambya
Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 0.9.4.1
Beta Release Date: 2014-06-16
Created 2013-10-04
Last Updated 2014-06-20
Download link not available from mobile app plz fix it mate
||""Playing Asphalt™ 8 Airborne on my sgy. LoLz.
Joke of the year. Gameloft devs will die if they hear this. ""||
Flud is good, I've been using uTorrent so far but recently it just crashes upon launch so I discovered Flud: and I'm happy with that!
teorouge said:
Flud is good, I've been using uTorrent so far but recently it just crashes upon launch so I discovered Flud: and I'm happy with that!
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ill try it on my p7500 tonight. How about Battery? Does it run as "foregroundservice?"
Or is it within the Background with return_sticky to avoid Memory leaks/high battery consumation?
Actually don't know, I used that to download a couple mp4's and it did that fast and easy: it didn't eat my battery right away but I used that for like half an hour only.
mynote said:
ill try it on my p7500 tonight. How about Battery? Does it run as "foregroundservice?"
Or is it within the Background with return_sticky to avoid Memory leaks/high battery consumation?
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I runs as a foreground service only when a torrent is active. Unlike tTorrent or aTorrent who keep a foreground service even when no torrent is active. As far as I know that is the only way of avoiding the service being killed by android when low on memory.
Will try this tonight.
Good nice app
one request:
Ability to set global download/upload speed limit or particular torrent speed limit feature.
victorharsh said:
one request:
Ability to set global download/upload speed limit or particular torrent speed limit feature.
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You can already set global download/upload speed limit. Ability to set speed limit for each torrent is a planned feature.
I download straight to my extsd with utorrent. I can watch or listen to a previous download while another download is running. With flud my music player and video player don't open when a download is running. would be nice to be able to download and watch at the same time.
Galaxy s3 4.1.2 stock based rom. No tweaks or mods installed. Stock kernel. No overclocking or any of that good stuff.
Can you post the apk for people who dont use the playstore please?
Could someone explain to me whats is the encryption level thing and ip filter? Thx
Rhabdomancy said:
Could someone explain to me whats is the encryption level thing and ip filter? Thx
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Well encryption is encryption. It's self explanatory in itself.
IP filter blocks a list of known bad servers
Will download torrent on my phone reduce the lifetime of my SDCard? Can you implement a write-cache(with setting to change cache size) to reduce the number of writing data to sdcard?
Idk why but i get rly slow download...
@Bhambya Any update coming soon?
I've been using this since December and just wanted to say thank you for this amazing app! Blows the competition away!
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Bhambya said:
Hi everyone,
I have been working very hard on this one. It is a free torrent client for android. Hope you like it!
Flud is a simple and beautiful BitTorrent client for android. The power of BitTorrent protocol is now in the palm of your hands. Share files with ease from your phone/tablet. Download files directly to your phone/tablet.
Features :
* No speed limits on downloads/uploads
* Ability to select which files to download
* Ability to specify file/folder priorities
* Magnet link support
* NAT-PMP, DHT, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
* µTP (µTorrent Transport Protocol) , PeX (Peer Exchange) support
* Ability to download sequentially
* Ability to move files while downloading
* Supports torrents with large number of files
* Supports torrents with very big files (Note: 4GB is the limit for FAT32 formatted SD cards)
* Recognizes magnet links from the browser
* Has option to download on WiFi only
* Ability to change theme (Light, Dark, Light with dark actionbar)
* Modern (Holo) UI
* Tablet optimized UI
Many more features coming soon...
You feedback is very important. Don't hesitate to drop us a mail if you find any bug or you would like to see a new feature in the next version.
If you are giving less than 5 stars, please leave a review telling us what you didn't like in the app.
Get it from the play store
Version 0.7.1
* Fixed a critical bug which caused Flud to stop running in the background
* Fixed some crashes
* Minor UI changes for tablets
Version 0.7.0
* The UI is now tablet optimized! (Currently for android 3.2+ only)
* Added dark theme
* Added basic Italian translation
* ETA is now displayed in the torrent list (Main Screen)
* Added "Share magnet link" option
* Bugfixes
XDA:DevDB Information
Flud -Torrent Downloader, a App for the No Device
Contributors
Bhambya, Bhambya
Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 0.7.1
Beta Release Date: 2013-10-02
Created 2013-10-04
Last Updated 2013-10-05
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Hi, first I would like to congratulate you for the excellent app, one of the best in the area of torrent client. However eustou having trouble seeding
Your app Seeds very little. Other apps like tTorrent aTorrent seed and much more.
And when I leave the phone seeding with the screen off, it stop and only seeds again if I pause and resume.
I'm using v0.8.4 and the past few months its been amazing!
This is the best torrent client on Android, and I thank you for making it free and ad-free!
Bhambya said:
Hi everyone,
I have been working very hard on this one. It is a free torrent client for android. Hope you like it!
Get it from the play store
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This has been the best Android torrent client since it came out, bar none. Really excellent work. Thank you.
I concur with a previous comment, please post an apk in this thread if you will, not everyone can use Google Play.
Secondly, must say ( and I've seen others mentioning this ) that the last two versions published just launch a black screen and do nothing. Tested on several devices... So, right now, the app is dead. I gather you already know, anyway.