So, my new favorite toy for my phone has got to be Opera Mini.
Compared to the built in browser that came with my phone, it has so many more features. It uses a remote server to pre-render pages to fit my phone.
On the built in browser, any page not formatted for WAP will load, but be incredibly large, and require lots of horizontal and vertical scrolling. It also has problems rendering pages that include dynamic data or embedded media.
With Opera Mini, pages render so that they require no side to side scrolling. All images are resized to fit your phone and enable quicker download times. You can set the preference to download full size images if you want, however, which could come in handy. Opera makes it easy to scroll through long pages by using the left and right arrow keys to effectively do a page down or page up move.
The main page features field for search and URL entry, as well as bookmarks and history. Bookmarks are easy to add and you are able to customize which ones you would like to see on the homepage. The first 9 bookmarks on the homepage also have shortcut codes assigned to them (*1 through *9).
Get Opera Mini via SMS: Send an SMS with OPERA to 96077 (SMS costs $2.99 - AT&T and Cingular)
This service is supported by the following carriers.
- Sprint
- AT&T (Cingular Blue)
- Cingular (Cingular Orange)
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