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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android is now released

Early in March, Opera released its Opera Mini mobile browser version 5.0 beta for Android phones. And now Opera Mini version 5.1 has been available for the Android platform. With these new version of Opera Mini 5.1 is now have more stabble browser application since this version using low memory resources.

For Android users who want to use Opera Mini 5.1, can be download on their Android phone just point the browser to http://m.opera.com, it will automatically directed to a link to download Opera Mini 5.1 applications for Android devices.

Even more interesting, Android users can assign an application these Opera Mini 5.1 browser as the default browser on their Android phones so if you find a direct link will be directed to open with Opera Mini browser when they click on link.

[via Opera]

Opera Mini 5.1, no longer need more memory

Opera has released Opera Mini version 5.1 which not to consuming more memory. This update is highly recommended especially for users of the Nokia S40 and Sony Ericsson specific phones.

Opera Mini 5.1 is going to improve the experience of surfing the web on mobile devices with limited memory. This update includes a new display with optimal skin to open up more pages simultaneously, much faster to scroll through pages, and overall browsing performance.

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Apple approves Opera mini for iPhone

After 20 days, eight hours and 31 minutes, Apple has approved Opera mini to be made available for free on the App Store.

I immediately checked the App Store as soon as I heard the news and surprise, surprise, there it was, Opera Mini Web browser by Opera Software ASA.

So is it the competition worthy of knocking off Safari from my dock?

In short, a big fat no. It is absolutely horrible. It's such a bad app I'm deleting it from my iPhone as soon as I hit send on this post.

Why is it horrible? Not all websites render properly on this browser. On several sites some links would disappear. Or at least it appears that way. They're still there but the text goes missing, leaving blank spaces within paragraphs for example. A refresh fixes this but it happens from time to time.

Text fields in Opera mini do not support autocorrect which has been an important part of typing on iPhone OS.

Typing on restricted text fields like on twitter's mobile site or other third party twitter web apps is unrestricted. You can go all the way past 140 characters and you won't realize it.

Rotating the iPhone would normally zoom or widen a website in Safari but Opera mini does not do that. Instead it maintains the width on portrait mode in landscape and shows a blank column on the remaining space.

How Opera mini displays a website is just plain bad. When you're used to how beautiful Safari renders web pages, you tend to take it for granted. Opera mini makes you really appreciate the hard work Apple and the WebKit team took on making sites look great on the iPhone. All the rendering and processing is done on Opera's servers and you get a seriously compressed version which is why it's really fast.

By fast I mean blazing fast, Opera mini opens sites almost in an instant, it has a neat tabbed browsing interface, it's ideal for those whose net access is limited by speed or quota because it delivers compressed web pages instead of the real thing, and it's fast.

It has an option to display a mobile optimized version of a site, it let's you decide to display reduced or full resolution images, it's really fast, it has a bookmark sync service with your Opera account, it has a speed dial page which has since been copied by Safari and Chrome, and it lets you save pages to open later when you're offline. Oh did I mention it's fast?

By the way, it also doesn't do Flash and is horrible with Acid3 tests, then again it's not really what you would call a traditional browser so you wouldn't really expect it to do well on those tests.

Try it if you will but I wouldn't wish this app on a sick dog.

Sent from my iPhone

Bolt browser for BlackBerry updated to v2.0 Beta

We have recently report about Bolt browser updated to v1.62 and now Bitstream just given updated for Bolt Browser to v2.0 Beta with some new features. In addition to faster widget with user interfaces that have been updated and upgraded the server to WebKit 4:03.

New features are:

• Rendering an excellent in open webpage
• Streaming video of all videos on all websites like Youtube, Myspace, Blip.tv and others
• Download speed
• Copy and paste text is also much faster
• Integrated with Twitter and Facebook
• Password manager
• Download and upload manager
• The ability to run applications based on Ajax, Javascript and other programming languages
• It includes widgets, standalone mobile application that runs directly from the browser
• Split screen viewing for webpage surfing more convenient.

Bolt 2.0 Beta has been present for downloaded and can be used for almost any type of BlackBerry. just point your BlackBerry browser to: http://boltbrowser.com/beta/download.html or to read the full info please visit http://boltbrowser.com.

All Opera Mini 5 in Indonesia have Telkomsel brand?

No more beta for Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10

A final version of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, at last. After months of Beta 1 and Beta 2, Opera for mobiles left the Beta title at home and become the default offer when you hit http://m.opera.com. I dunno exactly the difference between Beta 2 and final version, but hopefully less bugs will be found until next release. 

Microsoft Silverlight coming to Symbian platform

Today we just found the news that Microsoft Silverlight has now come for the Symbian platform, although still in Beta version at least this is a major breakthrough for the world of handheld devices today.

Silverlight is the Microsoft implementation of the application of cross-browser, Cross-platform .NET Framework to build a media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers'. But with this version, allows the application running on the Symbian environment.

Because this is still an early stage of the Silverlight Beta application for Symbian, so there are still some shortcomings and limitations when compared with the PC version of Silverlight. Deficiency is still present in the input method, media codecs and controls.

[via AllAboutSymbian]

Telkomsel is the Opera's preferred partner in Indonesia

Indonesia's Telkomsel and Opera announced strategic partnership to distribute Opera Mini 5, optimized for Telkomsel subscribers. Even more, Opera Mini's customization for Telkomsel includes changes to the toolbar, billing integration, home page-content and more.

Telkomsel will also offer their customers a new Opera Mini data plan to make mobile browsing more cost efficient. We may see Opera Mini with customized Telkomsel logo and toolbar in near future, I bet.

This move is very important for Opera since Indonesia is its second largest market worldwide. Having 82 million additional subscribers in hand will boast Opera Mini dominance significantly. Telkomsel is the largest telecom carrier in Indonesia, while Opera Mini is claimed to be the most widely used browser in the world.

[via Press Release]

New BlackBerry WebKit browser demoed at MWC10

Skyfire browser is coming to Android

Competition for Browser apps on Android is getting more interesting, after the Firefox mobile and Opera Mini, here comes Skyfire. Thanks to Skyfire's recent acquisition of Kolbysoft, the maker of Steel browser for Android. Skyfire is pretty well known for its feature to allow any Mobile phone with a slow data connections to access the web without losing their desktop browsing experience. Skyfire is also known for the only mobile browser that supports full Flash, Ajax and Silverlight.

By adding kolbysoft’s talent to Skyfire, we’ll be able to fuse the best of Skyfire’s famed cloud-computing multimedia capabilities with the Webkit browser movement to create a better hybrid model for Android. Steel has been the most acclaimed browser in the Android Marketplace, adding features atop Webkit. Together, we’ll be able to do so much more.