#Nokia 6600 opera mini download full
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One anoying issue I have with my Nokia 6600 is that neither the built-in Nokia browser nor the Opera can access GMail mobile. Having the pager “smooth scroll” the view is just a bonus (and its configurable), but its fast and makes paging much more usable. The Mini on the other hand brings back the paging capability but in reverse: up/down choose links and left/right pages up or down – which sounds weird but after a few runs it gets to be second nature and besides – on the verticaly scrolled display of the pages it makes much more sense to use the up and down motions to select links (and like with the Opera browser for Symbian, if the next link is out of view, the view scrolls up or down to it automatically). The current Symbian version – 8.x – dispensed with the paging and uses both up/down and left/right to select links and scrolling pages quickly you have to do some annoying key juggling (as I’ve mentioned in a previous post). Version 6.x of Opera for Symbian allows you to choose links by moving the directional control (joystick or pad) left and right, and to page with up/down. So the homepage allows you to keep track of where you were and what you are doing by showing you the last few pages you visited as history is kept across restarts of the browser.Īnother highlight is the navigation: Opera Mini returns to the navigation style of Opera 6 for Symbian, but in reverse.

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The main problem with the Mini – or rather with the Series 40 itself – is that there is no multitasking in the operating system, so unlike with the Series 60, when you want to switch to do something else for a while, you have to close the current application and when you need it again you have to start it again from the begining (and due to some reason, if the app needs to access the network, you have to approve the access manually every time it starts).

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The “homepage”, which is the page that you first see when you open the Mini, is very useful with an address bar, a google search box, some bookmarks (which you can choose from the full bookmarks list), an “Other services” entry which I didn’t get but could do without and the last 3 URLs from the history. I didn’t expect to see a clock there, but its a neat idea and now I want one on the Symbian Opera. I’m not sure what the guys at Opera were thinking when they put it in, but I find it histerical, and oh so useful (its a good idea to keep a track of the time when you’re surfing the web 😉 ).

In addition the interface is full of nice tidbits that makes life so much nicer with the Mini: the “stop” functionality of the right multi-key is clearly marked when the rest of the bottom interface is given to a progress bar The scroll bar is always visible and looks just like a normal scroll bar from a desktop appliaction (it does take some screen realstate, but its so useful like this that its worth it) The top part shows the site’s title, there are gradients and shadows everywhere giving the interface that sleek touch, and most importantly – there is a large clock on the bottom bar, between the two multi-keys. The next thing is the design – the red theme (which is not all that noticable as there is very small amounts of “chrome” about the interface, its mostly displayed pages, even bookmarks and settings) is very neat and nice to look at. The Symbian version on Series 60 (both Release 2 and Release 3) is noticeably much more slugish then its smaller sibling on a smaller and lighter handset. I’ve yet to try it on a Release 1 handset, like the Nokia 6100 – and I expect that to be slower, but the behavior of the Opera Mini on the 6280 is very slick: it is very responsive, the smooth scrolling is, well, smooth and everything you click responds with an immediate feedback. The first thing you’d notice with the Mini is that its fast, or at least incredibly responsive. It has it bad points, but those are few and have minimal impact. To sum it up, the Opera Mini is nothing short of brilliant. I’ve heard a lot about it – I use the Opera Series 60 symbian version (8.5 currently) and everytime I visit their “My Opera” page there’s a “mini” ad on top. So I took liberty of going to Opera’s web site (using the built-in Nokia browser which does XHTML, which makes it not completly useless, but it generally just sucks), and downloaded their latest mobile browser offering (for the not so mobile usage, check out the latest 9.0 TP2). I changed mobile handsets with some girl at work (she needed to test stuff on a Nokia 6600, which is what I usually carry around), and I got a Nokia 6280 which is a Series 40 handset (Release 2).