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This is an email that I just received for those of you who are eager to find out what opera mobile beta is like
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Hi,
Here's your sneak peek. By accessing the link below and agreeing to our embargo, you'll get the chance to play with Opera Mobile 9.5 beta 1. We'll make the beta publicly available on Thursday at 10:00a.m. CET.
Everything you need to know about the beta is included in the Reviewer's guide. Just hit the link below.
One thing to keep in mind, though: We're still polishing the final beta 1 build, so please note that there may be bugs - some potentially significant - in the the version you try today.
To download and install Opera Mobile 9.5 beta 1:
http://www.opera.com/press/reviews/mobile/
If you have any questions, please shoot them our way.
U.S. Pacific timezone:
Thomas Ford
[email protected]
+1 310 739 6555
Central European timezone:
Tor Odland
[email protected]
+47 2416 4242
Best,
Thomas Ford
Edit: Go to post 13 for the official beta
It uses IE favourites!!
What a wonderful change. No longer the need to maintain two separate sets of bookmarks now.
yeah i was playing with it overnight. hope they sort the rotation and keyboard bugs soon,
Im currently using the latest build of iris browser, its a bit slower over gprs but faster and renders better over wifi
I just test it in my HTC Touch using Wifi and it's great. The doble click to zoom, the iPhone like scrolling, accesing real web pages not pda-prepared ones, the auto full screen... all the features are great. And the interface and the settings.
What a great product! I can't wait till arrive home to test it in my X7500.
Well done OPERA - (insert lot of clapping here)
Rubbish
It is rubbish. Like last few versions after 1184 build. They seem to belong to those porogramers who believe that they know better then the user, how he should use the software. And on top of that they did not notice that there are such devices like Athena and Dimond with VGA screen best used in landscape.
Maybe for poore Touch users (nothing personal) it is good, but not for us. I have written about it already while build 14xx was released, but they obviously do not read our comments.
To Opera builders: if I want to turn my screen to portrait, I have better tools to do it. I realy do not need Opera to do it for me.
I am back with 1184 build.
I almost never use my device landscape mode. In that mode, I feel the screen is too wide and too low. As a result, my keyboard covers a big percentage of the screen, many programs shows too few lines (for example, too few items in the Contact application, too few files in file explorer, too few items in registry editors) with too much blank space on the right side of the screen.
So I have noticed the problems that you might have encountered.
I find the beta1 to be more instant and fast in making the data connection.
I make the normal changes to minimum overview zoom (70% this time), and display in large font. For some web pages, have to use smaller fonts. Also make the change to the limit paragraph width option so that the paragraph does but occupy only a small portion of the screen at the left hand side.
Tadeusz said:
They seem to belong to those porogramers who believe that they know better then the user, how he should use the software.
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What do you mean by that? Nice vague nonsense there...
To Opera builders: if I want to turn my screen to portrait, I have better tools to do it. I realy do not need Opera to do it for me.
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What are you talking about, and why are you acting like a baby over a beta (unfinished software)? Report it to Opera instead of posting it here where no one from Opera will read it. And even if they did read it, they would have no idea what you are talking about because you never actually explain what you are talking about.
the best opera i tried too...if the screen dont rotate on portrait when exit, this wil be the best...thank you
White the speed of the browser seems faster and connection more reliable, there are some still issues.
I've decided to use the default MinimumOverview Zoom setting of 30% because only with this could I see web pages without having to scroll at the overview level. The only problem is that at that level, all the links are non-active (meaning I can't click the link to go to the related web pages).
Another problem that I find is that at the overview level, the paragrah texts occupy only the small space on the left, leveing most side of the screen blank. This problem could be solved if I blank out the "limit paragraph width" option in that at the overview level the paragraph width stretch and occupies the entire screen width. However, that result in having to scroll left and right at the zoomed-in level since the browser does not "reflow" the paragraph to fit within the screen width.
The beta seems to cause my keyborad to revert back to the standard keyboard quite often too.
Does anyone else experience the same issues as what I have just described?
Anyway, I'm already testing a newer beta (build 1718) posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401643
I have not received an email from opera mentioning this build, but have tried out the newer build anyway.
In a few hous time, the real public beta will be released. I'll re-test these and provide feedback to Opera based on that version. No point doing it on these two peak version as every few hours they have a new release.
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Anyway, I'm already testing a newer beta (build 1718) posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401643
I have not received an email from opera mentioning this build, but have tried out the newer build anyway.
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This is the official release. The other one was some kind of press preview.
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This is the official release. The other one was some kind of press preview.
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1718 is already the official release? Are you sure? You seems to have insider information then? Or.. are you from Opera organization itself?
Anyway, I noticed that 1718 does fix an issue I noticed in the first peak beta. In the peak beta, if I type in "Opera:" into the address, I expect to see everything that starts with that including "Opera:config" to be displayed immediately. It does not happen, but 1718 fixes that.
edit: you're right. This appears to be the official beta release. The link to opera's download site is here:
http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/winmobile/951b1/opera_wm5_ppc_951b1.cab
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1718 is already the official release? Are you sure? You seems to have insider information then?
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Yeah, insider information, that's me
EyeAmRubber said:
Yeah, insider information, that's me
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I see. Missed that one as I thought they would send me an email again for this one but they did'nt.
Thanks.
Edit: Wait, the link that you provided is for build 1706, which is not the official beta build I thought.
For those wanting build 1718 direct from Opera, get it from here:
http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/winmobile/951b1/opera_wm5_ppc_951b1.cab
This is exactly what I was looking for. Nice one opera !
I liked Opera but 2 things really irked me and made me stop using it.
1) It didn't use IE favorites
2) It would automatically open the soft keyboard whenever I went over a text box.
I hear they've fixed the first one, does anyone know if they fixed the second one?
Thanks.
EyeAmRubber said:
What do you mean by that? Nice vague nonsense there...
What are you talking about, and why are you acting like a baby over a beta (unfinished software)? Report it to Opera instead of posting it here where no one from Opera will read it. And even if they did read it, they would have no idea what you are talking about because you never actually explain what you are talking about.
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Just read, if you can. And read some other posts of others as well as my posts concerning earlier versions of Opera. In particular read the post next after yours, if my is not clear to you.
If this does not help: If I want to turn my screen to portrait I would use some other tools. I do not want Opera to turn my screen to portrait each time I close Opera. Is it clear enough?
They introduced this feature in last few versions. The build up to 1184 was not doing this and I am sure all the others would like to keep it that way.
By the way. We have a habit here. If any app is shown here, we try to test it and give a comment, what we like and what we do not like. We are testing Opera for months already, if you did not noticed, and we comment each new build. We hoped that this could help Opera builders. Since 14xx build was released, this strange behavior was commented by various people here and now you are coming and saying that it is a baby comment. Nice comment of you, an insider.
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Just read, if you can. And read some other posts of others as well as my posts concerning earlier versions of Opera. In particular read the post next after yours, if my is not clear to you.
If this does not help: If I want to turn my screen to portrait I would use some other tools. I do not want Opera to turn my screen to portrait each time I close Opera. Is it clear enough?
They introduced this feature in last few versions. The build up to 1184 was not doing this and I am sure all the others would like to keep it that way.
By the way. We have a habit here. If any app is shown here, we try to test it and give a comment, what we like and what we do not like. We are testing Opera for months already, if you did not noticed, and we comment each new build. We hoped that this could help Opera builders. Since 14xx build was released, this strange behavior was commented by various people here and now you are coming and saying that it is a baby comment. Nice comment of you, an insider.
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He is right after build 1184 the rotation occurs not only when you exit opera just doing anything else like txt msg it happens,and it's annoying! Tho i like this build i didnt downgrade like evreyone else thn the opera forums its been brought up as well as the sip kybd issue and the big notification shutoff bugs.Hopefully the next build/beta works better keep your fingers crossed.
Looks interesting, but the rotation to portrait drove me absolutely batty in under 2 minutes. You don't have have to close it, just minimize. What a freakin pain. No go, back to 8.65.
Tadeusz said:
If this does not help: If I want to turn my screen to portrait I would use some other tools. I do not want Opera to turn my screen to portrait each time I close Opera. Is it clear enough?
They introduced this feature in last few versions.
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Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? What makes you think it's a feature? Ever heard about "bugs in beta versions"? You know, when the software doesn't do what it's intended to do?
Did you even consider that maybe, just maybe, it's just a bug?
We are testing Opera for months already, if you did not noticed, and we comment each new build. We hoped that this could help Opera builders.
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What makes you think that anyone from Opera even reads this forum? They have their own forums for this kind of stuff.
Also, pointless whining like yours isn't going to help anyone.
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Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? What makes you think it's a feature? Ever heard about "bugs in beta versions"? You know, when the software doesn't do what it's intended to do?
Did you even consider that maybe, just maybe, it's just a bug?
What makes you think that anyone from Opera even reads this forum? They have their own forums for this kind of stuff.
Also, pointless whining like yours isn't going to help anyone.
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I do not care if Opera comes here and reads our posts or not. It is their problem. We here are helping developers by testing their products mostly in beta versions. I am not going to verify Opera builders intentions. I just found Opera beta or pre-beta version, and as always we do here, stareted to test and give report. My report about 14xx versions was that it suddenly started to turn the screen to prtrait. Me and others were reported that several times. In next versions, this bug (obviously a bug) was still there, so when they officialy released their beta, I gave report that it is still there (the bug). I, again do not care if they are goping to listen to that or not. This is thair problem, as I have said. Contrary, I do care if somebody comes here and offends me, only because I do what we are suposed to do here. This is a forum for developers and their testers, here. If software is shown here, we will test and give report. Sometimes in big words if the bug is repeated in several versions. If you do not like it then go to hel from this forum, and stop offend people here.
Got it?
runs like the new opera mini. Very Fast
Here is a Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUmiDLRcNs&feature=player_embedded
Here is Screenshots
Here is the Download http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/
is this sig promo, or just o10 post doubling?
all i can say: no flash, no fockin WAY for that release.
another opera makers' joke(after o5).
0 progress since 4.2 all i can say.
you know, i am using opera on every dekstop i have, it is ULTIMATE solution, BUT, time for PROGRESS for wm devices, not another bulB****.
( xoen / nothin )
pupakota said:
is this sig promo, or just o10 post doubling?
all i can say: no flash, no fockin WAY for that release.
another opera makers' joke(after o5).
0 progress since 4.2 all i can say.
you know, i am using opera on every dekstop i have, it is ULTIMATE solution, BUT, time for PROGRESS for wm devices, not another bulB****.
( xoen / nothin )
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is there another opera 10 thread
its not worth using yet imo. it has some buggyness and isnt much different than om5. it lacos spme plder options like choosing image quality
we recently reviewed it here : Opera 10 Beta Features and Video
i am using it on HTC TOUCH ELF XL..better and improved than other like UCWEB, SKYFIRE. and also IE^6 when it comes to page view and movements
New opera is great
Meh.
It's really not that impressive -- meaning it doesn't really show off anything different or better than the last Opera release.
LINK TO NEW THREAD !!
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Hello all, I'm looking for a ROM that is 6.5 (preferably 6.5.3) based but with the standard TouchFlo 3D instead of Sense 2.1 or 2.5, as I find that they are way to sluggish on my Fuze. Do any such ROMs exist? If so, could someone point me toward one? I've searched quite a bit and nothing seems to come up.
Don't think there is one, but i can make a very stock one with the original Touch Flo 3D?
just try some of the old energy roms... im am extremely sure he made a couple with tf3d and not sense...
and im also sure its 6.5.3
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Don't think there is one, but i can make a very stock one with the original Touch Flo 3D?
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Basically what would be ideal would be one based on clean 23518 that had just the plain TouchFlo 3D. If you could do that that would be phenomenal.
I will also take a look at some of the older Energy ROMs although they are a bit big and bloated it seems to me.
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Basically what would be ideal would be one based on clean 23518 that had just the plain TouchFlo 3D. If you could do that that would be phenomenal.
I will also take a look at some of the older Energy ROMs although they are a bit big and bloated it seems to me.
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UPLOADING NOW!!
But TouchFlo3D is not set as standard, you'll have to set that in "Settings" -> "Today"
Awesome thanks so much! Do you have a donation link?
Well yea, but try it out and see if you like it first
And request fixes and report bugs and stuff
Here you go!
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Hmm download link appears broken, after waiting for the countdown, it says that the file is unavailable.
Wierd.. I get that too..
Il reupload
Fixed
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ROMeOS 3 Public is a newer ROM with TF3D, look here:
http://romeos.monx.biz/index.php?op...OMeOS2_WM65X_23081_301_071109_RAnDIUM_WWE.rar
But not the original TouchFlo 3D? The one the phone is shipped with
Currently testing it out...will let you know how it goes
So far so good, seems very fast and works very nice.
A few things: In MyPhone, the text does not show up in some of the screens, although the softkeys work and I can use it just fine.
I would like to replace the stock WinMo dialer with the nice Raphael dialer although I'm not sure where to find it.
The 5 row Start menu is a little bit cramped.
Internet link on TouchFlo 3D does not work (maybe I have to install Opera, will try installing Opera 10 and find out).
Email tab is called "email" in all lowercase instead of "Mail" (this is very nitpicky I'm just pointing it out)
Thanks so much I'm loving it!
I'll get on that when I'm home from school
I liked this ROM very much but i found some bugs maybe u could fix it..
1. Word Mobile won't Open, It's said to restart device but still won't open
2. some text out of screen, like in mms option server setting
will inform u later if i found others bug..thx
Touch pro roms
Can we see some screen shots
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Internet link on TouchFlo 3D does not work (maybe I have to install Opera, will try installing Opera 10 and find out).
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Do you have OperaL.exe in windows folder?
No OperaL.exe as far as I can see...should the Opera installer put it there automatically or must it be added manually?
I have been in the android "game" since the the release of the G1 and I have tried many different ROMS, many different browsers and the mytouch slide has to be one of the best I have used whether it be a stock android browser or 3rd party. The pinch to zoom is as smooth as the iphones and the new copy text feature works great compared to other stock android browsers.
Basically, I just want people to know about the browser so maybe we can see it implemented in more custom ROMs. I think it's currently in the Zen mytouch slide ROM, so I highly suggest you guys give it a try if you haven't already
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I have been in the android "game" since the the release of the G1 and I have tried many different ROMS, many different browsers and the mytouch slide has to be one of the best I have used whether it be a stock android browser or 3rd party. The pinch to zoom is as smooth as the iphones and the new copy text feature works great compared to other stock android browsers.
Basically, I just want people to know about the browser so maybe we can see it implemented in more custom ROMs. I think it's currently in the Zen mytouch slide ROM, so I highly suggest you guys give it a try if you haven't already
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I agree with this ...., I usually use an after market browser, but I will say the browser in the Zen rom is really nice.... pinch zoom is smooth and the copy text feature is nice also
It really is...I was really surprised with the speed also...I hope some of the devs will notice this also and can start implementing it into their roms. i tried replacing the apk from different ROMs but it doesn't seem to be that easy
can someone upload the .apk?
I can post it when i get home, but all I did was download the zen rom and pulled the browser apk. from it. I couldnt get it to install on my current rom though.
Here's the Apk.
Hey every one I read a article this morning that was on the app Appy Geek but was originally posted on Tech Radar. But the article says.
A snippit of code posted on Google's Chromium Code website reveals Google's Chrome web browser is to be ported to it's Android smartphone operating system.
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Here is a link to the article, Chrome finally coming to Android?
Now I think this might just make a pretty significant change to Android and the user experience with Android. I also think it is about time Google made Chrome part of Android, that is if this turns out to be true with the release of Ice Cream Sandwich.
What is your opinion about this? And any links to other articles about this would be awsome.
Edit: I decided to do some more investigation on this subject. Below are some more articles that discuss this topic. From what I have found so far we will know for sure about this and if it will just be a app or the new default browser.
Is Google Chrome Coming To Android with Ice Cream Sandwich?
Google Chrome browser coming to an Android smartphone near you
Google Chrome will be released for Android Smartphone
Google’s Chrome browser finally heading to Android
Love it! Chrome is what I use at home.
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Doubt it is going to happen anytime soon, but I love chrome and cannot wait for it to be ported to our phones.
Toss3 said:
Doubt it is going to happy anytime soon, but I love chrome and cannot wait for it to be ported to our phones.
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I don't know about that now cause the article also says this.
Expect to see the official announcement at Samsung Mobile's Unpacked 2011 event in San Diego on 11 October - which is where we're also expecting to see the unveiling of Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest iteration of Android, and the Google Nexus Prime.
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I also added a link to the article in the first post..
It's definitely a possibility, the Logitech Revue already uses Chrome.........I'm using it right now!
I have no real issues with the stock browser apart from its inability to download all files out the box.
Would be cool to see what They come up with tho, the firefox android version was pretty pants imho
I like the default Android browser, heck I have never even tried another internet browse for Android cause it is a very functional browser to me. Now when I was using Windows Mobile on my HD2 I tried several different browsers on it cause Internet Explorer just was notfor me.
Now having said that I do have two things I do not like about thedefault browser. One is the URL address box does not stay at the top of the browser pagewhen you scroll down. And the little icons you use to highlight text to copy and past or whatever you want to do with it does not really work that great. Even on my Acer Iconia A500 tablet, which I am using right now.
Shamless LOL
I added some more links on this topic to post #1, and this is a shamless BUMP!
I use Chrome everywhere now, except my phone, but I did think that the stock Android browser was based on Chrome. Am I mistaken in that assumption?
As for a fully fledged, actually called "Chrome", browser on Android, that just smacks of win!!! Especially if you can sync with the desktop version
Edit: Incidentally, I used to think the stock Android browser was the best available, after trying all the Market available browsers, but now I'm on MIUI and the browser is just amazing! (I do still want Chrome though )
i cant install google chrome in my phone =(
youthisbaka said:
i cant install google chrome in my phone =(
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It's not available.
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It's not available.
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Currection, it is not available yet. .......
One more week and hopefully it will be available on Android, and hopefully the default browser
I hope so : D hopefully nexus prime comes out on sprint next week
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This and BBM is coming take that apple
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This and BBM is coming take that apple
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Yeah take that Apple
I have never used BBM, but what I hear it is pretty dang good.
Plus from what I have been reading so far Apply had a epic fail today.
Hummm I sense a great shift! Yes a great shift in power I feel......
If Chrome comes to Android, there will likely be minimal change compared to the current browser. They're both based on WebKit, so the backends are identical. The only possible change I could see is to the UI, which is minimal on the phone side. Maybe we'll see proper tabbed browsing, like what's in Honeycomb.
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If Chrome comes to Android, there will likely be minimal change compared to the current browser. They're both based on WebKit, so the backends are identical. The only possible change I could see is to the UI, which is minimal on the phone side. Maybe we'll see proper tabbed browsing, like what's in Honeycomb.
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Yeah that is like one of the main reasons I personally would like to see Chrome on Android. I have a Acer Iconia A500 and I love the tabs on it. They make using the browser so much smoother and user friendly to me.
One of the articles I read today was talking about just this point. I can not remember if I posted a link to it or not in post #1. But remember the browser in Honeycomb is themed to look more like Google Chrome bit it is still basically the same browser as the phone OS under it all. Point being this ICS is suppose to combine Gingerbread and Honeycomb into one OS. Also if Chrome or even a Chrome themed. Browser is intergrated into the Android OS it will be a pretty big change as the better internet browsing experience will help make Android more appealing to users.
I think this is a great idea, ICS with chrome. I just hope it will be fast!
wah nice if chrome is the default browser in ICS
The android stock browser is not bad, but it's only not bad,no more.
And It's not based on chroome, but it has webkit like chrome