Guest Ben Horley Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Hey all I've tried browing on my Pocket PC using IE, Thunderbird and Netfront however I've never found them to be particularly satisfactory experiances - too much like hard work, bad rendering, slooooooow. I got an SPV a couple of days ago and found mysef on the train this morning with nothing to read so I fired up Opera on my SPV and started browing over gprs and....it was smooth, fast and a complete revelation. I'm struggling to pinpoint why it was so much easier, it just was. I stopped thinking about the difficulties and getting irritated by small screens, etc and just surfed as I would on my pc. I've no idea how Opera do it, it just seems to work so damn well. Finally, a browser on a small screen device that works as you'd hope it would. Yeah I know, there's no real point to this post except to encourage you to try Opera for your Smartphone if you've not already. Thanks for reading Ben
Guest nedge2k Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Yup...totally agree. Browsing is so much better with opera. Lets just hope they can make it work a little better with frames and add the ability for the user to configure proxies in the app instead of hacking the ini files by the time the final version is released :)
Guest Blakey Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Where do you get it from ? I searched Handango and also the catalog on modaco and can't see it? Blakey
Guest bennyboywonder Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Where do you get it from ? I searched Handango and also the catalog on modaco and can't see it? Blakey <{POST_SNAPBACK}> www.opera.com its there under 'products' - opera for mobile
Guest Blakey Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 Wow! It really is good! Trouble is I'll likely use my smartphone for even more surfing of the Net now - meaning even more GPRS charges! Please don't post these "helpful" suggestions any more. ;-) Cheers! Blakey
Guest chucky.egg Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 How well does it manage the phone's memory though? Opera on UIQ used to eat every bit of spare memory it could, and often fail to open pages because it ran out of room. Any problems like that so far?
Guest xusso Posted January 5, 2005 Report Posted January 5, 2005 (edited) How well does it manage the phone's memory though? Opera on UIQ used to eat every bit of spare memory it could, and often fail to open pages because it ran out of room. Any problems like that so far? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I tried it on my humble MPX200 and it didn't work all that well... It uses up all available memory, too slow on GPRS connection and sometimes simply stops... Dunno, think I´ll wait for the next release! Edited January 5, 2005 by xusso
Guest Ben Horley Posted January 6, 2005 Report Posted January 6, 2005 Wow! It really is good! Trouble is I'll likely use my smartphone for even more surfing of the Net now - meaning even more GPRS charges! Please don't post these "helpful" suggestions any more. ;-) Cheers! Blakey <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry :-)
Guest ptootill Posted January 6, 2005 Report Posted January 6, 2005 ... Yeah I know, there's no real point to this post except to encourage you to try Opera for your Smartphone if you've not already. .... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Has anyone had problems with Opera? I have been trying it for a few days and my issues are as follows: I have had my SPV hang twice - once I lost the bookmarks. Another time I had to remove the battery before I could use the phone again. I had to reinstall Opera after installing Mobipocket (don't know which was the villain here). Last night I inadvertantly left Opera and Mobipocket running overnight and the battery went from fully charged to 2 bars. Again, not sure what was the problem but we are in a poor signal area which I have read can cause excessive power consumption. It isn't norrmally an issue and I usually go 3 or 4 days between charges when I am using it lightly. I often get a connection error message when following a link and the only option is 'OK'. No reconnect or refresh. I have to fire up IE and load a site before Opera will start connecting again. A minor point is that photos look worse than IE - but that might be a rendering thing and the might be a tweak for it. Not a major issue. Having said all that, it is a much nicer to use than IE, espcially the multiple windows option. I would probably buy it when a stable version is out. What have others found? Rgrds Peter
Guest Confucious Posted January 11, 2005 Report Posted January 11, 2005 I can't select links in Opera - is it just me? I can't see where the point of focus is so can't click on anything.
Guest Sogarth Posted January 11, 2005 Report Posted January 11, 2005 I can't select links in Opera - is it just me? I can't see where the point of focus is so can't click on anything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I get that every once in a while for certain pages, but it usually doesn't happen from the get-go (and sometimes a reload will fix it). What happens if you try reloading the page, or try checking out different pages? Also, at least from what I've seen, Opera works better when "Fit on Page" is turned on (in case you turned it off).
Guest fozzie Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 I can't select links in Opera - is it just me? I can't see where the point of focus is so can't click on anything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This any help: Navigate Web Pages These are the basic functions you need to navigate: Joystick or up/down key scrolls page up/down. Joystick or right/left key navigates between page elements such as form fields and links. Push the joystick or middle key in to follow links, click buttons, or activate form fields. From: http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/winmobile/
Guest Confucious Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Sometimes I just lose the focus completely. I just went to the page I was having problems on and it startedt to work then I lost the focus, I repeatedly did this and couldn't select what I wanted. I then decided to type in my reply here exactly whgat I was doing so I diid one step on the phone, typed a bit here, did the next step, typed a bit here etc and guess what - Of course it worked. I have no problems with PIE and I am sure there is some bug or problem but I will persevere and see how I get on.
Guest fozzie Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 If you give us some info such as the URL, what you were trying to do etc, then other people can try it and see if they get the same :D
Guest Confucious Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 The particular site I had problems with was www.udate.co.uk and then getting to the "Members sign on" link. If you go past this and try going back I get lost (except the one time I did it very slowly)
Guest Lojt Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 It uses the LCD font from citytime alarms :D
Guest fozzie Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 It uses the LCD font from citytime alarms :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Works fine here. You using the latest version of CityTime alarms?
Guest scottb Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 It uses the LCD font from citytime alarms :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I deleted (actually renamed) the CityTime Alarms font and all was well after that. Of course, CityTime will then use the nina font, but that's fine for me.
Guest danmancs Posted January 19, 2005 Report Posted January 19, 2005 I seem to have a really bad font on opera, and there seems to be no option to change it
Guest scottb Posted January 19, 2005 Report Posted January 19, 2005 I deleted (actually renamed) the CityTime Alarms font and all was well after that. Of course, CityTime will then use the nina font, but that's fine for me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> FYI. The newest version of CityTime Alarms includes an option not to use the digital clock font. This eliminates the font problem.
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