Today Opera released third beta version of their browser - Opera Mobile 10. One of the new features added in this release is smartphone support, finally!
You can download it here: Link (remember to choose "Keypad phones" option)
Some screenshots:
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Its far less than perfect.
Stability is inferior to ie mobile in some cases.
Flash doesn't work on WM standard.
Zoom controls are non-existant.
But it renders fast (not as fast as skyfire though) and here is the big one -
Is the first browser that I know of on the smartphone platform (native, mini doesn't count) that has tabbed browsing...
The default font size is too small.
To rectify follow these steps:
1) type about:config in the address bar in a tab
2) Navigate down to user prefs and click
3) Search for minimum font size. This was 0 on my phone (a samsung Jack)
4) Change it to something between 10-15. I use 13
Now you should be able to leave zoom at 100% (thus preserving the rendering accuracy) and still be able to read text.
Note that this seems to work for me and the sites I frequent. It's easy to mess up opera in about:config and that you might want a different combo of zoom level and minimum font size.
Cheers
Frooze my Phone tonight. lol pretty much right off the bat.
needs adobe flash on it
Nice apps, thanks
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Does deepfish use the Microsoft-servers to generate a website that can be viewed with Deepfish? If you take a look at this screenshot you see that another ip than mine (84.*.*.*) has accessed the www.myip.nl-website...
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If we look up the ip-address we see that the ip is from a range that is owned by Microsoft: http://whois.domaintools.com/207.46.220.83
Do they really tunnel all traffic via their servers in order to create good working websites for DeepFish??
Grtz, Bortk
yes!
deepfish does not render the pages on your device.
it is similar to opera mini's proxy server, which renders the pages before sending it to your device.
the advantage is, that this allows devices with poor cpu performance a fast web browsing.
deepfish's alpha isn't fast at all, but with further development it should become much faster! it looks like that deepfish just downloads an image from the deepfish server and displays it with clickable hyperlinks. that shouldn't be much hard work for any cpu.
for example on my xda neo device 50% of page loading times is to download the data via gprs and the other 50% the device renders the page when using opera mobile.
that means that 3G or 3,5G can not speed up the browsing speed for 100% on such a device.
but opera mini or a finished deepfish could do that.
Okay, thats a great explaination! It's indeed a good solution for mobile devices to browse the web. It 'll only cost much server bandwidth / cpu resources for the proxyserver that's being used...
Thnx for your reply!
Okay, this is regarding 6.5.1. I installed Opera Mini 5 in JBed. But I dont know it's some glitch, or because of the OS, the text is very large. The menus, titlebar, etc are oversized. I have to set OM's font size to 'Very Small' and even that only fixes the in-page text, not the text in the application.
I've got some screenshots here:
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as opposed to what it should look like:
How do I solve this prob?
cyanide911 said:
Okay, this is regarding 6.5.1. I installed Opera Mini 5 in JBed. But I dont know it's some glitch, or because of the OS, the text is very large. The menus, titlebar, etc are oversized. I have to set OM's font size to 'Very Small' and even that only fixes the in-page text, not the text in the application.
I've got some screenshots here:
as opposed to what it should look like:
How do I solve this prob?
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This is not the problem of rom i think may be its the problem of jbed try to reinstall latest version and download opera mini 5 beta generic version.
Okay I'll try installing JBed again. Where can I find Opera Mini 5 SIGNED version? Even on the official site it's unsigned.
It doesn't come with a signed version.
And... why use Opera Mini while we can use the faster and more functional Opera Mobile?
lol
Opera Mini (IMO) is much lighter and functional.
Found this floating around the web & thought I'd share, they have a very interesting UI it's rather different.
NetFront Life Browser brings the mobile browsing experience to a new level because it works the way you work! Its sleek user interface and interactive capabilities will make you wonder how you were browsing before!
Check out its cool new features including scrapbook, tilt mode and unified navigation.
Recent changes:
- Unified Navigation: tabs, history, bookmarks… all in one place.
- Single-Handed Zoom: smoothly zoom in & out!
- Tilt Mode: the optimal way to read a web site.
- Scrapbook: clip, save & organize parts of web pages!
- Checkmarks: mark specific areas of a web page.
And more!
v1.0.2744
- updated default bookmark.
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmTF6OHfXT8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iw95zwbuo&feature=related
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LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?q7cu375w9s9qorq - 3.8mb
PLEASE NOTE: I am not the developer of this app I'm just sharing.
Doesn't work on Hero.
Force closes on me whenever I try to go to an address or pick from my bookmarks, so its pretty much unusable for me. It looks really nice though.
HTC Droid Incredible running the CM6 nightly.
Not working on sgs i9000 stock froyo. Launches but gets stuck at splash screen and if luckily it goes to the homescreen, it works for a bit and then crashes again.
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So I got a iRobot 7in Android tablet (WM2.1.2_105)... was about $86 shipped.
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I've had quite a bit of experience with these kinds of devices so it was fairly easy to get it rooted, hacked, optimized for best performance and working with Android Market.
...but optimized or no, it's still a low-spec device (256MB RAM, I'm quite sure the processor is below 600mHz... no 2D or 3D acceleration, 800x480 display), and I'm fine with that because I only got it because paying $160 for a Kindle that just reads books and nothing else seemed kinda retarded... especially when Android has a Kindle app.
Anyway, the keyboard (standard virtual keyboard) is actually the problem I've been having here. If I try to type the speed I'm used to typing, the device will skip strokes because it's not fast enough to keep up with me, and has all this predictive stuff+key enlargement effects slowing it down (of course, I tried the obvious solutions of disabling everything I can in Keyboard settings... still slow).
Are there any bare-bones keyboard apps with no added "under the hood" functions that you guys know of?
try this link..
scroll at the middle of the page.. u will see a download option.. download those keyboard apps.. it can also run or other devices besides htc.. download your correct resolution keyboard (download all and see which works best for you)
you will download a zip file.. install the two apk's...
GO HERE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5475283
GOOD DAY
Office Suite Comparisons:
The link below is a great thread containing information comparing several Office Suites.
Comparison of EIGHT major Office Apps
Sneak Peak:
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Sv: Office Suite Comparisons
I want to add one, the CloudOn app! As close as a full office (well, at least Word, Excel and PPT) as you can get with nearly all functions for free. It looks just like Office 2010, and you get a row with all the Ctrl and other PC shortcut buttons that works like Ctrl + D for subscript or superscript etc, Ctrl B for bold text etc.
There is some problems however, that makes it not just as great as it sounds at first. It lags sometimes and as far as I can tell there are only landscape mode avaliable. But it's really worth a try, and if you are an advanced user you'll be happy to see that even equations typed in is showing and working just like the PC version. Text and maybe images is something almost any .doc editor can handle but everything else usually becomes one big mess. With this one though, I find every component and the alignments very close to MS Office.
So, try CloudOn and see how it works for you compared to the above mentioned office apps is my advice
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