Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 emerge from beta
Opera's latest mobile browsers are all grown up and ready to leave beta! Opera Mini 5 is good to go on your BlackBerry or other Java-ready phone, and Opera Mobile 10 is out for Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. Opera Mini for Android and WinMo are still in beta, and there's no sign of that rumored Opera Mini for iPhone yet. However, these latest stable versions of Opera's pocket-sized browser represent a nice jump forward from their predecessors, Opera Mini 4.2 and Opera Mobile 9.6.If you've been playing with the beta versions of these browsers, there won't be many surprises for you in terms of features. Opera Link, the bookmark syncing feature, has been re-introduced, and there are some noticeable performance and UI tweaks in Opera Mobile. If you're upgrading from Mini 4.2 to Mini 5, though, prepare to be blown away. Mini 5 is a lot faster, and it introduces tabs, a password manager, and Opera's famous Speed Dial homepage.
[via CNET]
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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michas_pi said 10:24PM on 3-16-2010
I upgraded from the beta versions of both browsers on my Nokia E63 today.
Both browsers are simply amazing. SOOPAH fast and fluid. Also, both are free. One once had to pay for Opera Mobile.
Crazy, mad props to Opera.
One bug that they haven't fixed yet in Opera Mini: To use the Char key in a text field, you have to switch to fullscreen edit. This is annoying when entering passwords with non-alphanumeric characters. This bug does not exist in Opera Mobile.
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pawitp said 6:38AM on 3-17-2010
That's likely unfixable as J2ME does not support in-place edit and it had to be hacked in.
David Levine said 2:21PM on 3-17-2010
I downloaded Opera Mobile 5 for my BlackBerry Bold 9000 and it was pretty slow when I moved the cursor around the screen. It was jump and was not smooth at all. That might seem petty, but it is unacceptable to me.
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James Sanders said 8:35PM on 3-20-2010
Probably a Java thing IMHO Java sucks for performance and SHOULD NOT EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USED TO PROGRAM MOBILE PROGRAMS, it is too slow and every CPU cycle matters. IMHO Opera stop wasting time on Java it robs you of precious CPU cycles on these platforms and is overall not as good as any C BASED LANGUAGE , yes that includes Objective C