OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18586/Opera_Mini_4_Beta_2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:45:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Simulator http://osnews.com/thread?269788 http://osnews.com/thread?269788 Well, either this simulator does not work or it simulates the speed of the GSM network. Anyway, I was not able to connect to a website - neither the pre-saved favourites nor any other URL I typed.

"Connecting..." Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Daniel Grimm) Comments Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 http://osnews.com/thread?269790 http://osnews.com/thread?269790 I am using it since last night and I must say that it's really great. Much better than Beta 1 which was giving me some erorrs from time to time. And it's also much faster.
Great job by Opera! Keep up with good work!Browser: Opera/9.50 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.0.8993/58; U; en) Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lukic) Comments this that would make me happy http://osnews.com/thread?269795 http://osnews.com/thread?269795 I love all these mini browsers intended to run on java or .net or windows ce. but i wish they werent quite so limited to phones. example. I have a few customer build win ce 6.0 boxes. 1 POS and another i actualy use as an expirimental desktop, mostly for testing of the .Net apps i right to make them ass cross platform as possible (win32/64 linux WinCE) but I can not get any browsers (mozillas mini, opera, and even MS's beta of whatever that one was called) to work so i am stuck with a stripped down version of IE6 that comes with winCE. shot in the dark but anyone know of an alternative that will run on the x86 arch? Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments RE: Simulator http://osnews.com/thread?269815 http://osnews.com/thread?269815 I get the same exact issue, "connecting...", and I'm trying it on Opera's latest stable desktop release for Windows. Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (schoate09) Comments RE: Simulator http://osnews.com/thread?269816 http://osnews.com/thread?269816
Well, either this simulator does not work or it simulates the speed of the GSM network. Anyway, I was not able to connect to a website - neither the pre-saved favourites nor any other URL I typed.

"Connecting..."


Indeed, the problem is not in the simulation. In fact, it's rather proper one. Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (malkia) Comments A bit patience plz http://osnews.com/thread?269819 http://osnews.com/thread?269819 Hey, their servers do handle a billion page reformattings per month.
I just created and activated my OSnews account and put this comment with OperaMini3.1 on my K600i.
It's convenient, the speediest Java stuff i know and free like in beer. And that's only the beta which is on strike today.Browser: Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.1.7196/1710; de; U; ssr) Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (daleus) Comments Who needs an iphone http://osnews.com/thread?269840 http://osnews.com/thread?269840 Who needs an iphone, when opera makes the web just as nice on any phone with java. Great work!Browser: Opera/9.50 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.0.8993/58; U; en) Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mcduck) Comments I don't like it http://osnews.com/thread?269852 http://osnews.com/thread?269852 The "zooming" thing is eating much more bandwidth than the rendering mechanism in Opera Mini 3. I also hate it.

The "free choice of a search provider" is BS, since Yahoo! is obviously the first choice and I can't choose Google if I want.

Really, since version 2, Opera Mini got bloated and useless. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zugu) Comments Slower lately http://osnews.com/thread?269853 http://osnews.com/thread?269853 I've been using Opera Mini for over a year now, and recently the service has become much slower. I always thought it was my connection and patiently waited for the pages to load. But after testing with the built-in web browser of the phone, it turns out every page loads up immediately in that browser and there is nothing wrong with the connection.

Opera Mini is by far the most convenient mini-browser out there, but I'd rather have the page load immediately than waiting up to a minute for the Opera Mini page. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (djst) Comments RE: Slower lately http://osnews.com/thread?269854 http://osnews.com/thread?269854 Maybe that's because more people use it.
As every page is send over a server of Opera and compressed there to be smaller for you - less overall download - a larger serverload could (?) result in slower speed for you. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mat69) Comments RE[2]: Simulator http://osnews.com/thread?269860 http://osnews.com/thread?269860 On the phone simulator screen:

Menu > Tools > Setting: Protocol=HTTP [save] ;-)Edited 2007-09-09 12:00 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pseudocode) Comments RE: this that would make me happy http://osnews.com/thread?269865 http://osnews.com/thread?269865 Try WebKit. It's open, and seems to be portable enough (Windows/KDE/GNOME/OSX/iPhone) Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Constantine XVI) Comments RE: Who needs an iphone http://osnews.com/thread?269876 http://osnews.com/thread?269876 Who needs an IPhone... Assuming you can actually read the pages on a 1 by 1 inch screen !!!

Just kidding !!! Now I wish my phone had a bigger screen. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sjette) Comments It broke my phone http://osnews.com/thread?269884 http://osnews.com/thread?269884 Hmmm, it must be beta.

Beta 1 did pretty well, but while I was moving the cursor on beta 2, everything froze and suddenly got "Emergency UART", which was rather interesting. I even had to remove the battery to fix things. (Yes, I reported it to them.)

I never thought my phone would be so exciting. :-D Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments RE[2]: Who needs an iphone http://osnews.com/thread?269888 http://osnews.com/thread?269888 On my HTC-XDA phone it's quite readble (but the display is 640x480). Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (malkia) Comments doesnt work in my Blackberry pearl http://osnews.com/thread?269947 http://osnews.com/thread?269947 doesnt work in my Blackberry pearl. Too bad, I don´t like the blackberry explorer. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alejandrops) Comments RE: Who needs an iphone http://osnews.com/thread?269983 http://osnews.com/thread?269983 Having just used opera mini 4 beta 1 on a w810i for 2 months and beta 2 for a few days I can say that opera is doing a fantastic job. However, having just bought an iPhone on friday I can tell you that I am not going back to browsing on my w810i. I have also used opera mini 4 beta on a blackberry, Samsung A707 sync (3G+) and a motorla ic902 (3G). There is no comparison between opera mini on any of those phones and the iPhones ease of browsing and integration.

You may find that the iPhone does not meet your needs, in that case Oper Mini 4 is an excellent product for most phones. Having used both I have to declare the iPhone a winner in browsing in my experince, YMMV.Edited 2007-09-10 17:14 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arun) Comments