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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
- Date added: April 26, 2007
- Total Downloads: 486,013
- Downloads last week: 12,045
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 88 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Opera Mini 4 delivers a fast, impressively advanced user-friendly experience with this upgrade to its mobile phone browser. Keypad hot keys speed up zooming and scrolling. The browser comes with a familiar mouse. You can create your own search shortcuts, synchronize your bookmarks with your other Opera browsers, and alternate between rendering views.
There's also a landscape mode activated by pressing the "#" and "*" keys, just not for BlackBerry phones or a few others. Other limitations exist, as well, most notably that Opera Mini isn't compatible with every carrier and model, so you'd best check the specs first.
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Publisher's description
From Opera Software :Opera Mini allows you access to the full Internet on your Palm device. Users can surf any Web site such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, and Hotmail on their Palm just like they would on a normal computer. Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the device.
Version 3.1 adds new features like RSS support, photo sharing, and secure connections.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.1 adds new features like RSS support, photo sharing, and secure connections.
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User reviews of Opera Mini (Palm) 3.1
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 88 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera Mini (Palm) 3.1
"Good Application For The Treo 700p if Java is loaded and configured properly"
Pros: Good alternative to Blazer if Java is configured properly.
Pros: I know that many people experience the crashing - at least on my Treo there was a simple solution provided in a Gmail tutorial. For those of you who are getting the flash of the EULA before the app shuts down, this should work.
These are the instructions, word for word from Gmail
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Please review the following configuration settings on your Treo by visiting Preferences > IBM Java VM:
* Check Use Double Buffering.
* Check Use high resolution coordinates.
* Don't set anything for HTTP Proxy.
* Set Memory maximum to at least 4Mb.
* Set Maximum java thread stack size to 4kb
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Hope that helps. Amazing that Opera didn't provide this fix so that more people would enjoy their product. Who knows how many people tossed it after the repeated crashing.
Cons: Review these posts for the correct steps in setting IBM Java Sphere settings to get version 3.1 to work. IBM WebSphere is available as a free download at Palm via palm.com/us/support/jvm/download.html
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Opera Mini (Palm) 3.1
Cons: First it insists on IBM Websphere JAVA (for Palm TX, that is an extra cost of $6.99 US) After loading that (a big job) it crashes. After adjusting as suggested by tvccs1, it started to work but almost immediately failed. It couldn't connect to my WiFi and then crashed the device so a reset was necessary. After several tries and about 10 device crashes, I deleted the whole mess, Opera, Java etc from my device.
My device works again but I am out $6.99 and I'm still stuck with Blazer
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Version: Opera Mini (Palm) 3.1
"Good if you do what the instructions say."
Pros: Great browser, better than Blazer. Just follow the instructions posted by tvccs1, and it will work fine.
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Version: Opera Mini (Palm) 3.1
"It crashed my Tungsten C every time"
Pros: Don't know, never be able to use it.
Cons: It crashed every time.
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