Has anyone tried Opera Mini with E60? How does it compete against the in-built browser? The only downside of the in-built browser is the unability to save logins and such, and I read that Opera does that too. But how it plays with rotate screen and higher resolution and how is the speed?
cheers,
mjt
hilt wrote:Has anyone tried Opera Mini with E60? How does it compete against the in-built browser? The only downside of the in-built browser is the unability to save logins and such, and I read that Opera does that too. But how it plays with rotate screen and higher resolution and how is the speed?
mjt
Opera Mobile (the native and commercial version) does. I'm not sure whether Opera Mini does it also (it might though, it didn't try). I've tried Opera mini on my E61 and, while it can be good if you're paying by the KB and want to reduce you're bill, i've found Opera Mobile a lot sleeker, full featured and easier to use. I haven't spent too much time with Opera Mini though so i can't really make a side-by-side comparison.
Whops, my bad. I meant Mobile, not the mini one.
I installed mobile and it seems to be rather fast and able but also give renders some pages differently. Some pages appear all wrong while others that crash in-built browser render fine in opera.
And in-built's cursor is somewhat more luxorious 😊
Both are worth using, imo
hilt wrote:Whops, my bad. I meant Mobile, not the mini one.
I installed mobile and it seems to be rather fast and able but also give renders some pages differently. Some pages appear all wrong while others that crash in-built browser render fine in opera.And in-built's cursor is somewhat more luxorious 😊
Both are worth using, imo
I think that Opera Mobile feels, both by its UI and behaviour, like a much more mature and reliable applicatin than the built-in browser. I haven't come across any odd bug or behaviour while i was using it, unlike the built-in web browser. It also feels like a browser that has been designed from the ground up for making browsing the web on a mobile device with a tiny screen and no mouse as easy as possible as opposed to the Nokia one which is an attempt at making a mobile browser look and feel like a desktop PC browser, which doesn't make that much sense.
What i love with Opera Mobile is its UI in general, its fit-to-width mode which prevents having to scroll horizontaly, the page Up/Down shortcuts along with the smooth scrolling which make scrolling through long web pages a breeze (a lot better than the mini-map imo), the zoom bar, the multiple page browsing and the reconfigurable shortcuts.
I'm still not sure whether it is worth $30. For heavy users, yes, i think that it's definitely worth it but at this price and given that i've already got a decent browser that came for free with my phone i would expect Opera Mobile to really shine in every area. And unfortunately, there are some essential features that it lacks. In particular: ability to copy text on a web page, to open a link in a new window, to copy a link's URL and to copy the current page's URL.
One of the most notable things of Opera mini, is the bill, if You pay by traffic of data. The way it work, makes the cheap to use.
i rarely use anything but wi-fi.
opera mobile seems to load way more longer and jams every now and then when viewing and zooming. nothing major though