new version of opera mini! no java needed!

**dschoenike** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 10:06 AM

Opera Software launched a native version of
Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and
6-based handsets. By integrating Opera Mini with the Windows
Mobile platform, Opera is able to deliver an
optimized version of the popular Opera Mini
browser that dramatically improves
performance and the overall user experience.
While Opera Mini traditionally requires Java, the new Windows Mobile version does not,
which means that Opera Mini will work on any
Windows Mobile phone. The Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile
includes the same rich feature set as the
Java-based version. Renowned features,
including tabbed browsing, the password
manager, bookmarks and Speed Dial, are
built-in to deliver convenience while on-the- go. One of Opera Mini ’s major benefits is that it compresses data traffic by up to 90 percent,
resulting in significantly improved page-
loading and speed. This results in a
dramatically reduced data load, which can
translate to lower browsing costs when on a
pay-per-MB data plan or when on expensive roaming. "Windows Mobile deserves a mobile browser
that looks better, handles better and delivers
better than the default browser," said Dag
Olav Norem, Vice President of Products,
Opera Software. "Even though Opera has 50
million satisfied Opera Mini users, we always seek ways to improve our browser for each
and every mobile phone user out there. Now,
we are pleased to offer the world ’s most popular mobile Web browser as a native
Windows Mobile application." Download Windows Mobile 5 and 6 users can download
Opera Mini directly to their phone for free
from m.opera.com/next/ or read more at www.opera.com/mini/next/. Java is not required on the mobile phone for this
download.

Rhodium500 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 10:10 AM

cab attached.

**w7excursion** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 10:26 AM

I dont like that they still dont allow the screen jump by pressing left or right/2 or 8.

**Riley** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 11:44 AM

Woohoo! Thanks guys for the update.

racemepls · #5 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 11:55 AM

It renders a page fully zoomed. That gets quite annoying.

**Riley** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:05 PM

anyone notice its not progressing to the next page. Kinda like the first beta. if you are in ppcgeeks for example, and try to click last page of a thread, it keeps bring up the same page. Also, it took 5 attempts to save the password. Like the new setup and I'm sure its going to get better. seems to be prevalent on ppggeeks site but is working well on some other sites. strange

**dschoenike** · #7 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rileyd5

Woohoo! Thanks guys for the update.

Im intrested in your opinion with this version. Ive had a few problems trying to login to some websites. Here on the geeks, I had to click "login" 6 times before it finally took. Im guessing its server issues. It generally seems like opera mobiles little brother

dschoenike

**Riley** · #8 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dschoenike

Im intrested in your opinion with this version. Ive had a few problems trying to login to some websites. Here on the geeks, I had to click "login" 6 times before it finally took. Im guessing its server issues. It generally seems like opera mobiles little brother

dschoenike

thanks. well for me its behaving the same as the first operamini5 beta, before beta2. I really like the fact that it's stand alone. Hopefully somebody can tweak this up a little for us. couple other things I noticed, can't save anything to storage, and I tried downloading once and nothing happened.

**mindfrost82** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 01:00 PM

Wrote up an article about it and linked to this thread. Read it here

crookdbill · #10 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 01:44 PM

First. Thanks for the cab.
I like the fact that it doesn't have it's own keyboard anymore. That think would not go away in landscape and took up half the screen. Second, it would go nuts once in a while while using facebook at least and repeat a letter like 10 times while you are typing. At least for me it did. I love the password storage in the newest version. I love the fact that it opens faster than when it required java. My biggest and most important dislike is that it is slower...to me it seems that it takes almost 2 times as long if not longer to open a page. I will have to wait for my wife to get home so I can compare the two between our 2 phones but that is my initial take on it. The speed almost seems same as regular 9.5 or whatever MR X included in his latest 2.5 release. Is anybody else getting slower load times from this than in the beta 2 that was out?