Opera Mini finds its way onto Android
Got Android and lack lovely browsing experience? No worries, Opera mini is [Via PhoneScoop]
Got Android and lack lovely browsing experience? No worries, Opera mini is [Via PhoneScoop]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
carlo2 @ Apr 11th 2008 6:58PM
This is such vapor ware.
henry @ Apr 11th 2008 7:22PM
you guys really like opera mini that much? i absolutely hate it. it constantly resets itself, losing all my bookmarks and rss feeds. I got so fed up with it doing that, sometimes multiple times in a day, that I went back to the awful P-IE. On top of that, I know it goes through Opera's minimizing proxy server but sometimes I wouldnt be able to get into a site for hours at a time while I could switch over to P-IE and it would load fine. at least P-IE doesnt reset all my settings like opera mini does. 3 was decent but 4 is dreadful. (running on WM 5.1, btw)
Gamer90 @ Apr 11th 2008 7:47PM
You've got to make sure you exit the program through the program and not ending it externally you can say. It used to do that to me because on my "dumb" phone I would hit end to close the app, instead now I actually hit Exit within the App. It was suggest on the opera mini site.
henry @ Apr 11th 2008 11:32PM
thanks for that tip, i'll try it the next time I muster up the courage to give it another go.
john @ Apr 11th 2008 8:01PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get firefox mini working on it! DO NOT USE OPERA!!!
good lord, do you people learn NOTHING from other people's mistakes??
1) Don't use Opera
2) Don't use IE-Mobile
3) goto 1
WiiTodd @ Apr 11th 2008 9:21PM
Skyfire beats all of the above.
henry @ Apr 11th 2008 11:31PM
i wouldnt know. i signed up for the beta and I still havent heard from them. And it was really early in the signup too, but I know they said they are staging it out incrementally...
Brian N. @ Apr 11th 2008 10:58PM
Whoa, when did the trolls decide to pop in?
Anyways, glad to see Opera Mini on Android. Skyfire and Minimo are going to be great competitors in the mobile browser market, and I hope to see lots of great new features come out because of it.
Duscrom @ Apr 12th 2008 1:03AM
Hmm, Android already has Webkit built in. which is basically to Mobile Safari. Which is already better then Opera. Add in the fact that wrappers slow down performance... and you're running something that's NOT a native app.
And you wanna talk Vaporware.. FireFox Mini is vaporware. But i bet it'll do the best it can to emulate Safari Mobile.
carlo2 @ Apr 12th 2008 2:09AM
no no. I'm saying that Android itself is vaporware. it's ridiculous. all of this hype over yet another linux-based mobile OS. it's just annoying.
and JAVA??? give me a BREAK!
i'm sorry, just a little frustrated.
kev @ Apr 12th 2008 9:27AM
While it's early-stage, I don't think I'd call MiniMo vaporware.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html
The mobile browser space is gonna be a lot of fun, I think
Al @ Apr 13th 2008 4:19PM
The J2ME to Android Java wrapper is probably pretty thin, and I doubt it makes much difference in performance. Also, how is this not a "native" app? Android's API is Java, so a "native" app would be running on the same JVM as this, just using different APIs.