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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Limpag: Get Opera Mini in your phone
By Max Limpag
Celltalk
Browser. If your phone has Java, you can get the Opera Mini browser for free by going to mini.opera.com. To do that, your phone must have Internet access-WAP and GPRS phones have this.
To get the browser, just enter the address mini.opera.com in your phone’s connection screen and the website will display a prompt asking you whether you want to download Opera Mini.
Just click on "yes" and the website will automatically choose which version works best in your phone and install this in your unit. There are two versions of the software-basic and advance. The advanced version offers “page icons, more font options, better-looking menus, smooth scrolling and a built-in clock.”
I don’t know whether Opera meant favicons by page icons because I saw my favicon (that image you see in your browser bar when you use modern browsers) when I visited my site using the browser.
IT WORKS. I tried it out in a Sony Ericsson K750i using a Smart Buddy connection and it worked flawlessly. I visited my blog and I found that I could access it and read my posts in the phone.
I wanted to try it with Globe but I had trouble with the connection. If you do get it to work with Globe, send me a note.
SENSIBLE SOLUTION. The Opera Mini is a sensible solution to mobile phone Web browsing. Why? This is because pages aren’t sent directly to the phone, they are first accessed by a web server that processes it for display in the phone. What the phone gets is a stripped down version of the site that’s optimized for smaller screens.
This solution also frees website operators from having to program a separate website for mobile access.This type of set up is what is called as server-side computing. Years back, Sun’s founders said “the network is the computer.” Of course, it was a pitch for its thin client products. Server-side computing has a lot of potential in cell phones and the Opera Mini will show this.
It already outclasses the built-in mobile web browsers that come pre-installed in most phones.
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