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Opera Mini sings for handhelds
By Larry Hendrick | October 26, 2006
If you own a Palm handheld PDA, Opera wants to talk to you. Opera builds one of the leading Internet browsers, innovating most of the features we take for granted on Firefox. They also offer browsers for the Pocket PC and most newer generation cellular telephones, but until this week, nothing for the Palm enthusiast.
Opera announced a new version for the Palm and I immediately downloaded and installed it on my Palm Tungsten T5, which uses Blazer as the default. Blazer is okay in the same way Internet Explorer is okay on the PC. It works, it allows for web surfing, but a couple of things are missing.
My short review is as follows: Opera Mini is great! I am impressed with the speed and agility of this browser when coupled with my cell phone via bluetooth. The connection isn’t the fastest, but Opera handled the dozen or so websites I visited easily.
The only issue I had, in visiting Newsgator for the online RSS reader, java errors popped up with each page display, however, the news feeds are present and can be read and marked as read, which I checked later when I got back to my laptop.
Overall impression so far is very positive. Check it out for yourself and let me know your thoughts.
Opera Mini sings for handhelds | CNET News.com
On Tuesday, Opera released a new version of its mobile browser for use on the Palm Treo and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. Opera Mini offers a simplified version of the Opera Web browser, and the mobile version includes Google as the default for search. Opera Mini and Opera 9, which was released in June, are available for free download.
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