Comments on: Opera Mobile 10 Goes Into Beta

By: kley

kley — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:57:31 +0000

Damnit! After upgrade all my favorites and speed dials are gone!

Bad enough I had to manually restore them from v9, but now have to do it again???

By: kley

kley — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:57:31 +0000

Damnit! After upgrade all my favorites and speed dials are gone!

Bad enough I had to manually restore them from v9, but now have to do it again???

By: MacA

MacA — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:23:37 +0000

You can turn off the virtual keyboard, ya know, and just use the same default text input as in text messaging for example.

One thing I don’t like is that it used a lot more RAM than mini; so much so that when i had one more app open the phone became unusable as I ran out of ram.

At the moment also anything I try to access any web page it looks for a username/password for the opera server. Annoying.

Very slick looking, very smooth to use (5800xm) but a number of issues to be addressed before final release.

By: adam@iunlock

adam@iunlock — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:11:25 +0000

Just installed this on an N97 I’m testing. The Opera virtual keyboard is infinitely more usable on a resistive screen than on my i8910′s capacitive screen.

NZtechfreak, you are absolutely correct. However, unless Opera improves the keypad performance with capacitive screens, only Satio users will get ALL of the benefits.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:56 +0000

@Jaclu
There is a setting u can do in about:config that makes it perform like Opera Mini in terms of the back button.

User Pref->History Navigation Mode = 3

By: glen

glen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:51:58 +0000

i cant connect to any site! always getting any error saying “could not loacte remote server” but when i try the built in web browser i can connect to any site i want! whats the problem? any help? btw running firmware v2.0 n97

By: NZtechfreak

NZtechfreak — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:44 +0000

Real treat for Satio and i8910 owners this one, all the benefits without any worries about RAM consumption.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:21:26 +0000

@payaxy: also can’t paste into the url bar. Pretty annoying, I’d love to be able to get this working as the default browser when i click a link.

In opera mini you can, (s60v3) if you hold the up arrow(one that changes to upper case) for a few seconds a paste option comes up. Probably similar in v5

By: Jaclu

Jaclu — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:58 +0000

adam@iunlock:
On N97 keyboard is supported in both Mini Beta 5 and Mobile 10, so for casual input I use the opera keyb in portrait mode, for serious input I would slide out the keyboard, minor issue is that the virtual keyb is covering like 70% of screen even when the real keyboard is out and used, but since the virtual keyb is so good in portrait mode, I rather live with this.

It would be verry nice if there was separate options for virtkeyb in portrait and landscape

By: adam@iunlock

adam@iunlock — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:31:53 +0000

This native version is far smoother and faster than the Java variant. It runs well on the i8910 with an appropriate amount of eye candy in the menus. The kinetic scrolling is more fluid and responsive than the built in browser. The browser itself is great. But aside from the lack of flash support, what would keep me from using this in it’s current build is its keyboard. I started writing this response using Opera on my phone and I gave up about 30 seconds in and had to grab my laptop. The virtual QWERTY is painfully difficult to use in landscape mode and portrait, with no option for t9 input in portrait. There’s no shift function, only caps lock, and I can’t find an apostrophe anywhere in the symbols grid. I suppose this would be less frustrating after setting up bookmarks, but any amount of typing on this keyboard was just too much for me. How would those of you with resistive screens (N97, 5530, and 5800 users) rate the usability of the keypad?