08-16-2005, 06:00 PM
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Screenshots of Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs
I had an epiphany today. There aren't actually that many unique browsers for the Pocket PC. To name a few, there's Internet Explorer Mobile, NetFront, and ThunderHawk, but the vast majority of browser-related applications for the Pocket PC jazz up Internet Explorer Mobile rather than offer a different product altogether. Wouldn't you love to have more range to choose from? Months ago, Minimo was announced, and as of today, it is still trudging along slowly in the beta phase. But what about Opera for Windows Mobile? Smartphone users were officially graced with its presence in June, and as expected, there were a lot of questions being thrown left, right and centre as to whether Pocket PC users would receive a version of what Opera like to pride themselves on - a browser which delivers "speed, security, and simplicity". As far as official announcements were concerned, Opera stated that a Pocket PC version was on the roadmap, but left no further details.
To help alleviate some of the pain and suffering experienced by Opera fans, PocketCenter.de has just posted three screenshots of the Opera browser running on a Pocket LOOX 720. If the Smartphone version is anything to go by, it probably won't be free come final release, but based on what Opera's capable of, it may end up being plenty of bang for buck.
Are any of you excited by the idea of having Opera on your Pocket PC, or is your heart set on another browser?
Translation: German to English (Google)
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08-16-2005, 06:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I've looked forward to Opera for PPC for a long time. Love the desktop version. I am wondering how big it will be on the PPC. Considering the desktop version weighs in at only 3.5MB or so, even if they did a straight port over, it would still be a pretty reasonable impact on memory. 
I hope they also add the option of saving the cache to a storage card without having to tweak the registry.
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08-16-2005, 06:24 PM
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Intellectual
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Re: Screenshots of Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Are any of you excited by the idea of having Opera on your Pocket PC, or is your heart set on another browser?
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8O Excited isn't the word. I would gladly pay for it now as long as supports VGA properly. Minimo isn't going fast enough for me and everything else just doesn't do it - severly lacking in VGA support and abysmal support and information (yes I'm looking at you Netfront).
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08-16-2005, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I'll wait for mozilla to mature. Browsers are a point I will not move on. I'm not going to pay for a web browser. Its one thing back in the mid 90' when I purchased internet in a box and got Spry Mosaic, mail, GOPHER, and a few other apps. But at this point web browsing is so ubiquitous that it would be like going to the library and needing to purchase the library card for the low, low price of $19.95 before you can rent anything. (Yah yah I know taxes at work. But I'm also paying for my internet access to.) I just don't believe in paying for "that" software. Name anything else and I'll shell out the cash but web browsers. Nope. But that is me. Doubtless YMMV on that opinion. For those who love Opera more power to you.
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08-16-2005, 06:43 PM
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Mystic
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Any way to get onto this beta?
Surur
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08-16-2005, 07:04 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I'm with the majority posters here. I can't wait. I used Opera on my Smartphone and loved it. Don't know why they started with the Smartphone first.
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08-16-2005, 07:04 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
I'll wait for mozilla to mature. Browsers are a point I will not move on. I'm not going to pay for a web browser. Its one thing back in the mid 90' when I purchased Internet in a box and got Spry Mosaic, mail, GOPHER, and a few other apps.
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I remember that package! I was talking with people at lunch the other day "hey, whatever happened to gopher?" LOL
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
But at this point web browsing is so ubiquitous that it would be like going to the library and needing to purchase the library card for the low, low price of $19.95 before you can rent anything. (Yah yah I know taxes at work. But I'm also paying for my Internet access to.) I just don't believe in paying for "that" software. Name anything else and I'll shell out the cash but web browsers. Nope. But that is me. Doubtless YMMV on that opinion. For those who love Opera more power to you.
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There is a free (non-limited) version of Opera - it shows Google ads.
I think you might be missing the point of paying for Opera. For me, it replaces quite a few paid-for applications I would have to buy that individually would cost the same or more than the browser itself. Quite a few of them are subtle and not so obvious, but they still save me a lot of time.
1. One time saver is the quick response in the email client. no opening other windows, hitting reply or anything, just type what you want to say and click send. Very much like a forum "quick reply" box without the wait.
2. Notes. I priced all sorts of note-to email products on the market to plug into Outlook that I could use to somewhat automate repetitive responses clients and employees. Things like Password resets, etc. Some were cumbersome, others were buggy. One worked fine at $160+ Opera has it built in. Right click and select the template and you're done!  Plus, you can even use the quick reply box to right click and insert template for even faster results.
3. The download manager is well thought out and cuts out steps taken to download and optimizes the speed of the downloads. I am very happy with the speeds I get.
4. Newsgroup notifications. If you have some newsgroups you like to read, Opera can be scheduled to download them and pop up a notification when new postings are there. Prevents hitting the refresh button over and over and over.
5. The tabbed browsing is second to none. You can open all your pages at once, keep them open in the background, tile them for side-by-side comparisons or cascade them(I don't use cascading, but others love it). If close out of the browser, it will remember everything you had open and take you back to all of the pages.
6. Spell checker for forums and email posts
There are quite a few more subtle options that save me a lot of time and money I would list, but got to run... :wink:
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08-16-2005, 07:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Re: Screenshots of Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs
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Originally Posted by dochall
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Are any of you excited by the idea of having Opera on your Pocket PC, or is your heart set on another browser?
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8O Excited isn't the word. I would gladly pay for it now as long as supports VGA properly. Minimo isn't going fast enough for me and everything else just doesn't do it - severly lacking in VGA support and abysmal support and information (yes I'm looking at you Netfront). |
I wonder if it supports "True VGA", not the WM2003SE kinda VGA.
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08-16-2005, 07:18 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Can that be true? Is it done already?? Opera confirmed only back in june that they would be making a Pocket PC version of their browser. In other words, that is fast programming from their side! 8O
Talking about the link, why are they mentioning Opera Mini in that post? Are they running Opera Mini (only) on a Pocket PC with a J2ME application?? :?
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08-16-2005, 07:42 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 418
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Christ-in-a-sidecar, would someone - anyone - please release a VGA browser for PPC that doesn't suck? After all these years, PIE (as well as every browser based on it) still blows big, fat, hairy, oozing chunks (crappy javascript support, slow as death, limited features... WTF!)
NetFront is the only one worth anything, and it doesn't work properly in VGA without VGA_SE/ozVGA.
Save us Opera/Minimo, you're our only hope.
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