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Really not getting on with the built in opera browser. I guess I got spoilt with nokia browser on my N80.
Are there any decent alternatives knocking about?
Cheers
Drew
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:23:58
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care to explain what problems your having before looking for an alternative? perhaps there is a better way to do what you are trying to do
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:35:26
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sloooooooooooooooooooooow - is the main problem i have with it, the browser is functional enough, as opera always is, just surprised how slow it is on M600, would like to try alternatives to test.
Cheers
Drew
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:38:23
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I have to admit I rarely visit full web sites preferring the likes of mobile esato (mobile.esato.com) etc but having done the same on the k-jam for the last 10 months I'm impressed at the 3g speed and pages just seem to come up very quickly
are you using 3G or GPRS?
to answer the original question, I haven't seen any other UIQ3 compatible browsers yet
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:47:55
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hi massuer - thanks for your reply - well i guess i'm stuck for the time being.
I'm currently on GPRS, see thread below for the fun I'm having trying to get a 3G sim.
Cheers
Drew
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:50:42
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ah yes, I hadn't got to that thread yet.
well maybe that will sort you out as I was certainly impressed by the speed on 3g
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Posted: 2006-07-14 13:53:12
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I guess, i´m spoiled, too, with my E61´s browser, but i, too, think the Browser is pretty slow and it doesn´t fit websites to the screen as well as the E61´s...
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Posted: 2006-07-14 14:01:13
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Whilst in isolation I think Opera on the M600i is pretty good (as Opera has always been for Symbian). Having also used an N80 and the Apple/Nokia browser on that it is light years ahead of Opera in terms of rendering speed and its ability to render full websites.
For me personally, I like to get the full browsing experience - I see little point in mobile sites and want sites to be rendered the way they were intended, and the Nokia browser was amazing in this respect - it even managed a very clever trick of trying to fit text to the width of the screen to avoid scrolling, but unlike Opera it did this without breaking a sites layout. The mini-view and animated history with preview were very, very cool too.
Opera whilst generally pretty good is IMO farily slow in its rendering (note: nothing to to with the actual 3G data speed) - just look at the time it takes to render the homepage on the M600i. The N80 on the other hand although as a device ran at a snails pace, the web browser (when it wasn't crashing) was very, very quick at rendering. It was really the N80's only redeeming quality.
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Posted: 2006-07-14 18:00:54
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You can select speed or quality though can't you? Speed will filter out some content though, so you don't get some background colours etc.
I think you'll need to have 3G for a decent experience, but Opera can be slow at times (I'm using it right now on a Mac, and it takes nearly 30 seconds just to start up first time!). However, I still think it's preferable to the N80 way of doing things, although to be fair, it IS quick and sometimes it IS nice to see a page as intended.
However, I think overall, the Safari/Nokia way is a step backward. The idea of Opera was to make a page easier to see on a small screen. Even now with higher resolution screens, it's still not really viable to try and view sites as designed and then scroll around them.
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Posted: 2006-07-17 11:12:35
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