release: opera mini 2.0

Posted on | May 4, 2006 | No Comments

opera.com released version 2.0 of it’s portable mini-browser today… as a happy user of opera mini 1.x I couldn’t resist trying the new version. unfortunately, the installation-process via cellphone is not as convenient as it could be. I failed in trying to download the new 2.0-package with opera 1.x from http://mini.opera.com – the old app wasn’t able to download and execute/unpack the new .jar/.jad files (opera is a java application). as a backdoor I used the built-in nokia-browser, which worked ok.

• ability to download images, mp3’s and other media directly to the phone
• skinable themes
• advanced search functions against multiple search engines
• “speed dial” – quick bookmark access
• quick & smooth panning while browsing

although written in java, opera seems to render pages as fast as the native browser of my nokia 6630. web-pages are generally rendered quite good, however, frame-based designs, advanced css, javascript and flash are not supported.

 

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