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On a handset that has good fonts and a good browser, even 128x160 is enough. OSNews is fully browsable on such a resolution for example. Then again, OSNews has spent half of its life optimizing for such browsers/resolutions.

Seriously, this is why Nokia created the N770 internet tablet. So users with phones can pair it with their phone and browse the internet through the internet tablet's 800x480 resolution.

Besides, all new phones now come with QVGA screens, which is enough IF the sites are optimized for this resolution (which are not, of course).

That's not quite true. I have developed WAP frontend to our company financial system. So, when you're at customer you can reserve invoice, see details, query user database. It's not as flashy as orginal interface, and it's almost read-only because of security, but still, comes very handy.

I'm going to office by bus. It's 30 minutes I can spare to read papers OR see what's on OSNews.

Yes, the way I did it to get these screenshots. You download and install the Sony Ericsson Java SDK and then you email me so I can give you the proper .jad and .jar files (both are needed on the SonyEricsson SDK, some editing of the .jad is required too, so you will need my version).

>How come they're giving it all for free now.

This is easy to answer: because no carrier in the world used it. They probably had a very small interest by carriers, mostly because carriers have VERY specific guidelines about the features and layout and fonts of a browser, points that Opera Mini doesn't support or doesn't want to support.

>How do they make money from it?

Sometimes, it's all about prestige and free marketing, in order to push other products from the same company.

BTW, an interesting discussion on Opera Mini is here too: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008770.html

You can only make the font smaller, not bigger. The point of Opera Mini is to fit as much information as possible in one screen, exactly because native browsers have very specific guidelines from carriers to use bigger fonts and geeks/tech-people were always unhappy with this fact.

IMHO, Opera Mini does the right thing using smaller fonts there, but it's not going to please people with bad eyesight. For those people, better just use the native browser (except if a "use bigger font" option is going to be added in the future).

Fixed it. setting it to use the small font, in fact made the font bigger on my phone, so I'm a very happy camper. This is much better than the browser opera puts out for Symbian (which comes with the phone). The rendering is just fantastic.

Then, you just found a bug. On my Sony Ericsson it makes the font smaller, as it is supposed to.

Does your Psion has java MIDP in it? If not, you can't.

Do you have downloaded the .jar file? If yes, you should be able to run it via your java's console/loader. If not, email me and I will send you the jar file.