Opera Mini 5 Beta – No More Java for WinMo
Opera has released a new beta version of its Opera Mini browser. A lot of us tend to use either Opera Mini or Opera Mobile as our primary browser. The big news here though is that you no long need to use Java (and its clunky interface). Opera has rewritten its code to make it a native Windows Mobile app. Opera Mini is supposed to be tighter, faster, and consumes considerably less data than its bigger brother, Opera Mobile.
In my experience, loading the app is faster than Opera Mobile and the interface is very similar to Opera Mobile 10. It seems to load the pages zoomed in, as opposed to the zoomed out view in Opera Mobile, and there's no apparent setting to change this behavior. What are your opinions? You can discuss it in our forums here.
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It seems that even HTC is leaving Java behind. The HTC Supersonic is rumored to not have Java support ( http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=press&id=68548).
Given that Youtube is beta testing HTML5 (no Java), is this a big deal?
so…are they going to start phasing out Opera Mobile now?
If they’re leaving java behind on Mini, what’s the point of keeping 2 product lines?
@batpot – Good point. They look almost identical at this point, but I know they offer Opera Mobile on other platforms, so maybe they will be converting those versions of Opera Mini too and just combining it into one product.
BUGGY!!! mobile site redirects with mobile view off (whats so hard about including a user-agent switcher like in opera 8.6x?). and when typing with touch screen the cursor moves back to the begining of the line,they cant deem to get either of these right tho i like how fast and light it is
I been using Mini the past few days and so far im very impressed. seems much faster and smoother than before and dosent take anywhere near as long to load. This is now my primary browser for just cruising around the net.
I don’t mean to be a stickler but I have noticed a lot of spelling mistakes on these posts. You guys should proof read them a bit better…(long should be longer)
@dumblondewalkin – slight spelling errors aren’t as bad as the bugs in opera mini that make it unusable, at least for me anyway.
Actually, there us a reason for the two different versions: http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2009/12/03/difference-between-opera-mobile-10-and-opera-mini-5
Because Mini works through a proxy which is why you get issuess with some sites. If you want better privacy you would use Mobile with Turbo turned off, so your data wouldn’t go through Opera server. However, this is trivial if you are already browsing on a cellular network.
I am glad for Mini however because I get 15kb/s where I live. Having the data downloaded and compressed for me nakes the browsing more bearable and not feel like 56k.