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Opera Signs Nokia Phone Deal
Masq666 writes "Opera Software stated on Friday that it had signed a deal with Nokia to put its mobile Internet browser on several Nokia phones. Opera has licensed its mobile Internet browser for a total of 11 Nokia phone models in recent years. Opera's CFO said he expected the rise in the number of phones with Opera's browser to outpace the increase in models."
And for an extra $10/mo, you can use the browser without ads.
As long as it's without the adds, I think it's great to see what i still consider the best browser to be present on cell phones. Albeit that probably means the cell phones are running CE...
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You dance around with the phone or do a silly walk.
How long until Opera is the defacto browser for all Symbian OS phones?
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What does this mean for Minimo (Mozilla's mini-browser that was funded/supported by Nokia)? It's been less than a year since they announced their financial support for the project,. I know the mozilla foundation released a few early versions for Windows CE/Pocket, but I haven't heard anything about the mobile phone version.
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There are no ads on the mobile version of the browser.
Only a trial version and it costs 20$ if you want to buy it.
cant really think of anything as unusable as opera in a cellphone...
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My sigs offend the max # of people all over the world, regardless of race, religion, color, sex or creed. It's a gift.
Except that Opera is very well respected as a mobile browser and has apparently some nice features specifically for low resolution mobile devices, including supposedly very well executed small screen rendering, which I guess scales and readjusts a web page for improved display on a mobile's screen.
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It must be hard browsing without mouse gestures
"It figures that they would sign Opera as their browser....then they can sell you the Antispyware software to go along with the phone which is an additional $10."
Uh, what? Are you saying that Opera is/has spyware? If so, can ya pass the pipe?
"Derp de derp."
Opera is great for browsing and has always had some form of a popup blocker (yes, even prior to Mozilla). However, It is noteworthy to point out the greatest feature of the Opera browser...."delete all private information".. I don't know a single person who surfs for porn with anything else!
please point out where opera sells antispyware programs. when you are done with that, please explain how nokia or opera allows spyware on their phones to begin with. oh wait, they don't. why? because you are full of shit.
opera sells 1 thing. a browser. a browser that happens to work amazingly well, and even more amazingly well in a mobile environment.
is this worth paying for? definitely.
are you still full of shit? definitely.
So count on Pocket IE there...
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Opera works well and is a proper browser. IE at the time (about 2 years ago) was horribly limited in the mobile version, no css at all for instance. Opera on the other hand could handle regular websites as well or as bad as the full version on your pc.
Mouse gestures didn't exist but the ones I used were the big slightly laptop form nokia's vs pda MS phones. The widescreen of the nokia helped reading newssites wich is what I was supposed to be building for these phones.
Maybe IE has now improved but two years ago there was no competition.
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Your stability complaint for PC versions is somewhat justified. I've experienced many a crash when it tries to load some Java applets in the Windows version (haven't tried a Linux version). I also imagine stability has improved since you last tried it. I think the current official version is 7, and 8 is available in beta form... I think. My assumption is that the mobile versions are significantly different in their implementation than the desktop versions.
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Small Screen Rendering is available from the view menu in any recent version of Opera, including Opera 8b3 (Linux). It's surprisingly nifty, though kinda useless on the desktop.
OTOH, the new "Fit to Window Width" feature is super useful whenever there's a horizontal sidebar or if you want to collapse a frameset into a single page.:)
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
It might be interesting to run these browser-equipped PDA's and phones against the random shards of malformed html generated by Michael Zalewski's program mentioned previously on Slashdot.
I did a quick check of an embedded browser I had laying around, and it died instantly.
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What pop-up ads? Opera's ads do not pop up. They are as inconspicuous as they can get, and limited to a narrow horizontal band at the top of the screen.
Plus, I don't see anybody complaining about Slashdot's ads. Subscribers (you know, people who pay money) don't see Slashdot's ads. Same thing with Opera.
It will take long time.
The most people still use the default WAP GPRS browser. The bookmarks on the phone are associated with him, and there is no way to make Opera the default browser on the phones.
I can speak for the current Symbian phones, that have him (Sony Ericsson P800/P900, Nokia 6600).
Opera's CFO said he expected the rise in the number of phones with Opera's browser to outpace the increase in models.
Umm... Huh?
So... More models of phones will use Opera than the number of existant phone models?
Neat trick, this guy should talk to the CEO of a former employer of mine that swore to maintain perpetual X% "growth" per year by making cuts to reach that target.
Perhaps Bernie didn't do anything wrong... These guys just use a system of math totally incompatible with physical reality. Worldcom investors actually made trillions, it just doesn't look so good on paper. Yeah.
I've a Nokia 7610, and it's fantastic. There aren't many pieces of software that I, personally, consider are worth paying for, but Opera for Symbian is one of them, It's fantastic - it has turned my cute toy into a completely cool essential tool. I've even had to sign up to a data bundle from Orange (UK)!
Slashdot works particularly well.
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Small screen is useful for those panels. If you want a design a page with a list of information, then you render it as small screen and make it fit better in the panel.
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If they weren't in business, we were speaking about the IE domination (and also WinCE) on mobile market right now.
They make living money only and only from selling browsers and inventing. They had no $2M donation or 400+ elite coders.
Its a miracle they have come this far and keep on progressing.
I should point out i meant the version on the cell phones is banner ad free. Pop-ups are easy to disable in ALL versions of Opera.
So, you don't have to pay - again - for the ad-free version - that's how it comes INSTALLED on your Nokia phone.
[caveat - I own shares of Nokia, lots of them, so I have a financial interest in this]
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