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Opera Mini 3.0 Now Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easier-to-send-embarrassing-pics dept.

E IS mC(Square) writes "Opera Mini 3.0 is out of beta. The feature list includes RSS integration, a user-interface geared towards mobile devices and small screen size, and it's fast for relatively slower mobile data connections (with picture upload/sharing if you are into it). Requirement for using it: You must have a phone capable of running Java mobile applications and are using an Internet connection (officially supported devices are listed)."

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  1. Opera 3 on a Treo 700p is HORRIBLE by Zelet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do not attempt to use this version with the Treo 700p. The previous version of Opera Mini worked fine on my Treo but this version crashes the phone repeatedly when I try to use it.

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  2. Re:Possible for older low resource machines by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might as well just run Opera proper...or maybe an old version of it. Opera is pretty light as it is.

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  3. Poor stability by diamondsw · · Score: 3, Informative

    While I used Opera Mini 2.0 on my Treo and found it worked very well, the new version 3.0 crashes constantly (which, thanks to the lack of memory protection on the Palm, resets it). Reinstalled the JVM, Opera Mini, etc - no better. Downgraded to 2.0 and all was fine.

    Might want to wait for some bug fixes (although Opera doesn't generally push .01 updates to its "Mini" product).

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  4. Re:OTA Install? by mottie · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you visit http://www.operamini.com/ on your blackberry it automatically detects your device type and gives you a download option. It recommended Opera Mini - International for me, but it was easy to switch that to Opera Mini - US.

  5. Mini vs. Mobile vs. Desktop - For the Record by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since invariably someone gets these mixed up, there are three main browser types that Opera produces:

    Opera Desktop - this is the full-up web browser that you can use on Widows, Mac or Linux (plus a few other Unixes)

    Opera Mobile - this uses the same rendering engine, but runs on smaller devices like PDAs and some phones. The DS and Wii browsers are probably based on this version.

    Opera Mini - this is the Java-based app that runs on virtually any JVM-capable phone and does a lot of the processing on a proxy server.

  6. I see the moderators are smoking crack again by ncc74656 · · Score: 4, Informative
    In what bizarro world is the parent poster a troll? Once it did its setup thing on my Treo 650, it rebooted. More often than not, it reboots the phone as soon as you try to start it. If you do manage to get it running, it reboots as soon as it actually tries to display something from a website. Last time I checked, displaying stuff from websites was the primary function of a web browser.

    After deleting the copy I had installed in the phone's memory, I tried running it from an SD card. It behaved the same way there. Grr.

    I should've saved the previous version before installing this one, but I rarely used it. Blazer was more functional and easier to use for most things. For updating my On Tap in Vegas page when out and about, I found that Links running in an SSH session would work.

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