Opera Launches Java Based Mobile Web Browser
Posted by Mr magoo on 10 August 2005 - 16:59 · 14 comments & 3360 views
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#1 Posted by azz0r_wugg on 10 Aug 2005 - 17:26
- Shame I cant use it.
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#2 Posted by Galley on 10 Aug 2005 - 18:02
- Do I have to wait for Sprint to offer it, or can I get it somehwere else?
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#2.1 Posted by HawkMan on 11 Aug 2005 - 08:16
- The SMS you send only gives you a return sms with the install url for the java client.
soi you could try and go to http://mini.opera.com/tv2/ and see .
it shoudl then recognize your phone(if it's java(with internet access) capable) and you should be able to install.
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#3 Posted by Beastage on 10 Aug 2005 - 18:04
- This is an interesting concept , Opera servers prepare the page then send it to the java extension on the phone , but at how much lag? if this project gets spread to 10 million cells Opera will have all the money it needs to release a free browser
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#4 Posted by Hamster Man on 10 Aug 2005 - 18:42
- most, if not all of the phones we sell at Orange are capable of accessing the internet... I would have thought it was a minimum specification these days.
come on American, catch up already
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#4.1 Posted by Danrarbc641 on 10 Aug 2005 - 18:46
- Pretty much every phone in America includes a browser these days too.
I'm not quite getting the point of this particular Opera product. Is this just better at displaying a normal page than most other browsers?
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#5 Posted by LoTioN on 10 Aug 2005 - 19:19
- It works great, it's a lot better than the standard browser installed in my SE K750i. It really renders the pages good. The font is small, but yet easy to read so it packs a lot of information on the small screen.
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#6 Posted by RADicaLMMS on 10 Aug 2005 - 19:24
- It's for mobiles without smartphone capabilities, such as the Nokia 6230i (Series 40) not just Series 60 Platform phones which are Symbian OS based.
Got this from OS News:
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By Eugenia on 2005-08-10 19:06:50 UTC
I have just added better "Opera Mini" recognition on osnews' user agent matching code so most phones should now get served the mobile version of osnews when they use this browser.
I just checked our mobile stats and we already had 4 different phones visiting osnews with opera mini earlier today. For web masters, here is one of the user agents (search and match the words "Opera Mini"
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Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/1.0.1479/HiFi; Nokia 6230i; no; U; ssr)
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#7 Posted by koocha on 10 Aug 2005 - 21:37
- I hope O2 in the UK get it soon
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#8 Posted by Galley on 11 Aug 2005 - 05:35
- Screenshot: http://www.osnews.com/img/opera-mini.jpg
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#9 Posted by johnston on 16 Aug 2005 - 15:43
- got it installed on my 6230, im using o2 in the uk
The software, designed for mobile phones, is installed by sending a SMS message to a service provider, in a similar way to downloading a ring-tone. Then, when a page is requested, the data is pre-processed by Opera servers and sent to the end user. Opera believe that the product could work on as many as 700m phones world wide.
"Mobile Web surfing has until now been limited to more advanced phones that are capable of running a browser," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "With Opera Mini, the phone only has to run a small Java-client and the rest is taken care of by the remotely located Opera Mini server. With Opera Mini you don't have to have an advanced phone to surf the Web, which means that most people can use it with their existing phones."
Opera, the only major 'pay-for-use' web browser provider in the market, hopes that mobile operators and other media companies will be interested in offering the product with mobile packages, creating a more interesting product for end users. Currently, the software is being trialled with Norwegian operator TV2. Opera plans to allow companies to customize the software to meet their own needs.
Opera faces stiff competition and poor market share in the mainstream PC-based browser market. However, it has seen greater success in the mobile market. Opera has strong links with popular mobile makers, and, unlike the desktop market, has a good opportunity here for a strong revenue stream. Mobile providers are keen to offer users a simple way of accessing the web via their phone, yet face the problem of a non-mobile friendly internet. If Opera is successful with Opera Mini, this problem could well be solved.
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