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Your Web Everywhere: Opera Mini 4 hits the streets
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/11/07/
After three betas we're proud to release the shiny new Opera Mini 4 to the world.
We've done a lot with this new Opera Mini. For example, we rewrote the entire code for Opera Mini 4 and added lots of improvements and new features to make the browser even better.
Opera Mini 4 is based on the same rendering engine as the Opera 9.5 desktop browser. The browser still has a very small install size, less than 100k, even though we've added all these cool new features.
With all the time and work that we've put in on our end, we wouldn't be able to bring you the world's best mobile browser without your help and support. We owe a great amount of appreciation to all those of you who helped with our beta testing, bug reporting, and providing feedback in the Opera Mini forums and on your blogs. Thanks.
So what have we done with Opera Mini 4?
Opera Link
We've added support for Opera Link in Opera Mini 4. With Opera Link, you're able to instantly synchronize and share your bookmarks and Speed Dial with the Opera browser for your computer.
Overview mode
Opera Mini 4 includes a new rendering architecture that allows you to view webpages just like you would on your computer. When you first load a webpage, Opera Mini will show you an overview snapshot of the page; using the new mouse cursor you can instantly zoom in to the selected region of the page.
Size of text fits width of screen
Opera Mini 4 dynamically changes the size of the text on webpages to fit the width of your phone's screen, meaning you won't have to scroll horizontally.
Context menu
A context menu is displayed when pressing the number 1 key. From the context menu you could change the viewing modes to 'Mobile view', reload the page, and show webpage information. When the mouse cursor is focused on a link, the Context menu will show you the link information (i.e. where the link points to, etc.).
Mouse cursor
With the mouse cursor you could scroll to any direction on the page and more easily click on links.
Scrolling shortcuts
Pressing these number key shortcuts will help you quickly navigate around the page.
2 - Page up
8 - Page down
4 - Go to the left one column
6 - Go to the right one column
5 - Zoom in and out
Create search
With this new feature, you could add any search engine of your choice to the Opera Mini start page. To add a new search engine, click on the search field, press the menu button and click on the 'Create search' option.
View pages in Landscape mode
By pressing the * and # shortcut keys, you could switch the page view to landscape mode.
New standards support
Support for HTML tables, CSS handheld stylesheets, and more advanced support for CSS have been added to Opera Mini.
Bi-directional support
With this new release we've also added support for bi-directional text, adding support for languages such as Hebrew.
Some other notable changes
Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
Simplified setup process
Improved image quality
Improved fit to width mode rendering
Simplified settings page
Added native blackberry menu
Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
New and improved server side cookie handling
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As usual, get it from www.operamini.com
hey.. the beta 3 didnt last that long huh? so it's finally official! cool! :
Yeah, and don't forget to check out my related review here at the Wiki - http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...t - even better than before, an ABSOLUTE MUST
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!
Thank you
Wow!
This is easily the best ever software for the pocket pc. What an amazing browser!
I wish opera made operating systems as well.
Damn i wish i could use it but I can't since port 80 is block on t-mobile t-zones plan. Is there any way to make mini's port be something else and make it work just like Opera Mobile works on t-zones plan
Opera Mini is the best and fastet Mobile Browser on the world (if you are using it with JBed).
Great piece of software.
Also check out my review of the final Opera Mini 4 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344095
is it a good idea to tweak opera mini like the screenshot? especially for devices without a qwerty^^"
#3 go to top
#9 search
## forward
*# Change screen orientation
** Change windows size
all shortcuts above opera mini4 has built in are very convenient. unfortunately they aren't put in the menu and thus are almost inaccessible for users using a handheld without qwerty...
hopefully someone might be kind enough to help^^"
I now have Hermes/TyTN and are used to and want be able to navigate everything office-related quickly with the keyboard (mostly Outlook Mobile and the ”File explorer” (Word-documents)
So more specifically (but feel free to answer in general terms as well):
- Is the above easy and quick?
(Especilly concerning Outlook Mobile)
- Is it possible to customize a button shorcut to the ”File explorer”?
- I noticed that the keyboard lacks soft buttons and directional arrows - how does that work out?
- Do Word Mobile documents open quickly?
I'm thinking about buying a Kaiser/TyTN II after a litte disapointing test of Touch Pro, but would like to enjoy the fun, exciting and practical things, like Google maps, of a Touch Phone as well.
/Dan
-There are 2 soft keys you can customize
-The D-pad/Optical scroll will still be usable in landscape mode and will be rotated so that it works correctly.
-It one of the fastest phones out there so yes they'll open quickly.
Thanks!
I´m afraid it lead to some more questions :s.
Okey, now I think I can see the scroll wheel which I guess works for instead of vertical arrows, but what about sideways?
By soft keys I meant the keys above the keyboard (se attachment), which one´s did you mean?
The reason I ask if it´s slow with opening Word-documents is that Touch Pro, also one of the fastest, took 15-25 sec. to open a 50kB doc. which is ridiculous because they usually are 150-200kB.
Danne said:
Thanks!
I´m afraid it lead to some more questions :s.
Okey, now I think I can see the scroll wheel which I guess works for instead of vertical arrows, but what about sideways?
By soft keys I meant the keys above the keyboard (se attachment), which one´s did you mean?
The reason I ask if it´s slow with opening Word-documents is that Touch Pro, also one of the fastest, took 15-25 sec. to open a 50kB doc. which is ridiculous because they usually are 150-200kB.
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You can set those two keys to anything you want on just about any windows mobile device so setting that to file explorer shouldn't be problem at all.
When I was talking about the optical scroller, I was talking about the Xperia. I does not have a scroll wheel. You know those little mouse pads on labtops. Well it has a mini (sorta) one of those for scrolling on the bottom of the screen or you can use it as a D-Pad.
The touch pro has touchflo3d that may slow application loading time because it causes over head. On the standard today screen the Xperia should fly with opening word docs.
Danne said:
I now have Hermes/TyTN and are used to and want be able to navigate everything office-related quickly with the keyboard (mostly Outlook Mobile and the ”File explorer” (Word-documents)
So more specifically (but feel free to answer in general terms as well):
- Is the above easy and quick?
(Especilly concerning Outlook Mobile)
- Is it possible to customize a button shorcut to the ”File explorer”?
- I noticed that the keyboard lacks soft buttons and directional arrows - how does that work out?
- Do Word Mobile documents open quickly?
I'm thinking about buying a Kaiser/TyTN II after a litte disapointing test of Touch Pro, but would like to enjoy the fun, exciting and practical things, like Google maps, of a Touch Phone as well.
/Dan
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May I ask what disappointed you in the Touch Pro?
Except slow opening of word files?
Some clarifications:
- The two soft buttons.
There are two physical buttons below the display that you can use or you can just touch the buttons on the screen itself.
When the keyboard is open there are no physical buttons on the keyboard so you have to touch the screen or use the two buttons below (now on the side of) the screen.
- Directional Keys
Around the optical mouse there are 4 directional keys that work both with the keyboard open and closed. They work fine and they logically rotate with the screen orientation.
- Optical mouse
As Kloc said it's not a scroll wheel but works similar to a touch pad on a laptop.
Danne said:
So more specifically (but feel free to answer in general terms as well):
- Is the above easy and quick?
(Especilly concerning Outlook Mobile)
- Do Word Mobile documents open quickly?
/Dan
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I don't know about navigating to Outlook quickly, but 3 panels carry a shortcut to outlook - the SE Panel, the Spb Panel, and the Windows Panel... and from the latest videos i have seen, it is fast.
There is also another video on youtube where they open various office documents on the device including spreadsheets, word document, etc. and although i did not care to notice, but i am quite certain that it was not slow. i'll try to hunt down that video and post the link here.
Hi again (after sleep and work)
Ok, now I understand which soft buttons you guys mean, I was only refering to the ones that TyTN (see pic) has in landscape mode above the keyboard (very practical). I guess I´ll have to use the touch screen for those commands.
Thanks for the clarification about the directional keys I hope they are quick to work with in keyboard ”mode” as you imply.
And msalmank, if you find the link I´ll be happy to see it, if not one of you have direct experience with opening Word-documents. On Touch Pro I actually turned off the Touch Flo 3D and it didn´t become quicker (not much anyway). Slower than my 2 year old HTC TyTN.
Why I was dissapointed in Touch Pro (except slow opening of Word-documents)?
(I realize that the perspective here is narrow, but as said, I use the PDA mostly in this narrow office-way. Constantly and quickly changing calender-appointments and writing in different Word-documents. Besides that TP does have some great stuff in it!)
- The input method with auto suggestion of Words is really crappy (I don´t know it it´s the same in all WM6.1 phones(?))
- Low sound-signals for reminders and SMS
- Low battery time (but I´we seen completely different opinions on this matter so I don´t know what´s up with that)
- Unproportionaly big menus when using the keyboard in landscape mode (might be fixable?)
I just might buy the Xperia and test it and send it back if I´m not pleased. That might be the simplest solution. But buying the first couple of weeks is always risky, isn´t it.
I'm a PC, and this is my office!
I'm a PC, I'm a PC, I'm a PC (while doing a dance)
The Zoom Slider works for Internet, Acrobat , Photos, etc. There are a few other programs that need the Zoom like Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop on the origional Tilt had built in zoom and on 6.5 MS dropped the ball. Anyone know of a tweak to make the Zoom Slider work for all programs? Why should we let those IPhone users show us up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Barry
By the way, I really love the Tilt 2 and don't miss my origional Tilt.
Zoom on remote desktop mobile
I also would like the ability to zoom while in remote desktop sessions using my Tilt2
Seems like it shouldn't be a big deal to enable it.
Thanks
There's a cab that has Zoom Bar settings for a number of apps (it's just a collection of registry settings): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578420 -- some people have reported difficulties with this cab, so also have a look at my posting in the same thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4892668&postcount=22, which allows you to do it for a single app. (I also have a Tilt2, and am using the stock ROM).
pistou said:
There's a cab that has Zoom Bar settings for a number of apps (it's just a collection of registry settings): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578420 -- some people have reported difficulties with this cab, so also have a look at my posting in the same thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4892668&postcount=22, which allows you to do it for a single app. (I also have a Tilt2, and am using the stock ROM).
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the aforementioned link to the zzomadds app is a great app and I've heard it plays quite fine with the stock rom but for those of us who have flashed, it seems to have an issue and doesn't work. I run energy ROMs and the cab doesn't work with the energy so d/l it and try it and if it doesn't work, oh well...
What is a remote desktop and how do you do it?
Scroll or Zoom?
Just to be clear, does this app allow just scrolling in other programs with the zoom bar, or actual zooming in other programs?
If it only scrolls, does anyone know how we can enable zooming specifically in other programs?
Thanks,
Michael
Each app takes the zoombar differently.
For example,
Messaging - Text gets bigger/smaller
Internet Explorer - Zooming
Google Maps - Zooming
Contacts - Scrolling
Office - Zooming
Just depends on the app. There isn't a way (yet) to differentiate the two
Remote desktop zoom, screen orientation, missing keys on keyboard
Thanks for the reply, I tried the above suggestion (downloading the cab). It works with this like email, but nothing for remote desktop.
I do a ton of remote desktop to manage our data center and the ability to zoom would be great.
I also would like the ability to switch to landscape mode without having to pull out the keyboard (while working in remote desktop). Does any one know how to do this???
Finally, the ESC and backslash \ keys is missing on the keyboard. These are common keys I need. I have an AT&T Tilt2 that has the slide out keyboard.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks a lot....
I have the solution for Landscape mode. That was a big issue for me, next to the need to zoom on Remote Desktop. Download an application called change screen and any time you turn the Tilt2 to landscape, no matter what application, it will change the screen. It also allows for an exception list which is nice for things like the phone application. It is free and listed under the cab file applications in this section. Works great
Opera Mobile 10 is more slick, but a big problem I had with it was that unless Zoom was set to at least 140%, links / text in Portrait mode were too small to click on / read. The lack of adaptive zoom and zoom slider in Opera 10 didn't help either. Well not any more!
Either go into the Opera advanced settings page by typing in "opera:config" in the URL when Opera 10 is running and click on "Fonts" to change the font settings, or just stick the following lines into the "Opera.ini" file inside <Opera 10 Installed Location>\PROFILE\ directory:
Code:
[Fonts]
Form.Button=25,3,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
Form.Input=25,3,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
Form.Text=24,3,0,0,0,0,Courier New
H1=40,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
H2=34,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
H3=30,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
H4=26,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
H5=22,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
H6=20,5,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
Normal=25,3,0,0,0,0,Tahoma
PRE=23,3,0,0,0,0,Courier New
The 1st number in each line represents the actual font size. Adjust to your liking. The font sizes above let me navigate most websites with Default Zoom @ 100% and the text is very readable.
Note that some webpages will look more misaligned due to the larger fonts, but now at least you won't need to have zoom at 200% to be able to read the text
This probably also works for Opera 9.7 and below, but the issue isn't as important since these versions have a more useful zoom slider and proper font-size adjustment in the Settings menu whereas Opera 10 buries it in the opera:config page.
Hope this helps some of you out there.
Have you also tried to size the browser window to fit on the screen from the "opera:config"? I mean, I tried to set the default zoom to 100% instead of (I believe) 175% as is the default. Looking at a webpage I like to see it all, and THEN I decide what to zoom in on.
I read another post where the guy managed to set the zoom to 100%, I just didn't have any luck doing that on my phone! Maybe I made a mistake, don't know...
Wonder if there might be another place to type in how wide you want to see the pages in default mode...
regards Helle
Thanks for this info
For some reason on my metro start page I have 6 apps down and its only spanning one page. I am running two monitors which are 1920 x 1080, my other pc is running a single monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, why are they different and is there a way to change it ?
Hard to tell with out seeing, perhaps it something to do with dpi scaling which can be found by typing dpi on start menu. I have not seen dual monitors running windows 8 yet so I'm guessing.
You might want to check the charms settings/more settings option and see if its a setting there. I noticed an option for spreading desktop images across multiple monitors, it might be connected to that.
Hope that's of some help, If you could upload some comparative screenshots it might help tho.
I have read on other forums that Metro only appears on one screen, desktop on the other, there are still problems regarding multi screens, but remember it is a "Beta".
Lol, "Pre"-Beta, even. I love being an early adopter. No sarcasm, really, I do .
I've seen this before and it seems that the Metro UI configures itself based on resolution, DPI and possibly other specs as well. I first noticed it with 2 monitors set at the same resolution one having 4 roles of tiles and the other having 5, but even monitors with the same DPI can have a differing layout. I'm not sure what kind of algorithm MS is using to scale the new metro UI but it seems to be effected by several factors.
Hey thanks guys for the reply, my second monitor was a HD tv so maybe it detect this and forced the maximum tiles to decease. I did find on the net a way to change it but I think this was for the developers preview and the registry seems different now.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...etro-apps-change-number-rows-windows-8-a.html
As for metro only appearing on one monitor this is true and it can be a little frustrating sometimes. For instance if you have the start menu open and then you start working on the desktop it closes the start menu and goes to what ever app that was just opened which is rather annoying, you also cannot move metro apps from one screen to another or at least I don't know how to.
Another annoyance is since win 8 with keyboard and mouse relies upon the corners when you try and pull the charms menu up you find your self rather going to the next screen. This is easily delt with as I just use windows key + C, but I would rather them just disable the charms menu for dual monitors with the mouse. Forcing you to use win + c so I don't have to see a transparent charms on occasion when I am moving to the second monitor.
Also is it just me or do other people think you need to be able to break up the apps on the start screen vertically as well as horizontally.