Opera Mini 5 hits Android Market

Does it incorporate multi-touch pinch-zoom? iDon’t have Opera and I’m not too familiar.

Yawn

Opera mini sucks on blackberry and android.

Good points:
-It renders pages quickly even over a slow connection (for me it rendered the desktop version of BGR over GPRS at a similar speed to that at which the default Browser rendered the same page over 3G)
-It renders web pages pretty much perfectly, even those like Endadget and BGR that have a lot of pictures, and stuff like that.
-The traditional Opera ‘Speed-Dial’ feature is very useful indeed. Allows very fast access to my most used websites.
-Double-tap to zoom in and out. However this is countered by a bad point (see below).
-In addition to touch navigation, if you have a trackball, D-Pad, or optical trackpad, you can use it to control a mouse pointer. It’s a bit fiddly sometimes but it’s useful to have for those times you need extra precision.

And the bad points:
-There are two levels of zooming: an ‘Overview’ level and a ‘zoomed in’ level. There is no ‘grey area’ between ‘zoomed in’ and ‘zoomed out.’ You’ll need to use it to understand what I mean but it’s very annoying.
-No multi-touch, not that there’s much use for it with no real zoom function at all.
-It cannot be set as the default browser, or for that matter interact with any other application or any part of the OS. You can’t open links from Twidroid (or any other twitter app) with it, you can’t open searches with it.
-It feels more like the old Opera Mini 4.2 – a Java application running in a Java wrapper – rather than a ‘native’ application. There’s a reason why Firefox for Android is taking so long, you know.
-The scrolling needs massive work done to it. Kinetic scrolling is absent, and you really notice it.

But overall, I like Opera Mini 5 for Android. I would recommend that you at least try it even if you decide not to stick with it.

Android doesn’t even get an Opera Mobile beta yet?

LOL. BGR Doesn’t work on Opera. Uninstalled.

I just tried out Opera Mini and I’d have to say this thing is LIGHTNING fast compared to Dolphin Browser.

I just wish it had pinch-to-zoom.

Skyfire for Android. Lets see if that comes to pass. They failed on the BB version lol

Just got done trying it out and this thing is fast!!!

Much better then stock browser!

I think it’s all about preference. Yea Opera mini lacks multi-touch FOR NOW.

The plus is that we actually have a choice of which browser we use.

I like this browser it has to have multi touch to succeed.

BGR doesn’t load completely using opera!

Whyb doesn’t anyone ever mention Xscope for android? Its much better than stock , dolphin broswer, and opera mini.

I just tested Opera Mini 5 and on my myTouch 3G, it’s so much faster than the built-in browser. I can click a page and have it up and showing in 1-2 seconds. The built-in browser for me usually takes 10 seconds just to show me that’s is loading, and then I can’t even do anything while it’s loading. It’s horribly slow (given that part of that is the myTouch’s ARM11+96MB of available RAM).

Opera Mini 5 is definitely going to be the browser I use.

Lightning fast, that is for sure!

Can’t change User Agent settings though, and with a large screen smartphone (Droid) why would I want to see mobile pages?

Pinch/Zoom would be nice as well.

Still like Dolphin overall

smooter

Uninstalled about 5 minutes after I put it on. Maybe I did something wrong, but on a Droid I couldn’t get any kind of zoom working, and it seemed to leave a big empty space on the right side of pages when in landscape mode. Like the droid screen resolution was too much. So pages were really squished sideways.

Loads fast on my My touch. Zoom works fine for me. BGR report sort of loads. Lists headlines, won’t display the article though.out how to read them:). Will play with it a bit more. Not bad though.

It’s fast but it’s not terribly accurate, I still prefer the stock browser.. this might be what I use if I’m on EDGE however.

Opera Mini 5 Beta = Shockingly Fast and Efficient!

That Is All

I downloaded Opera Mini and have been using it. It’s definitely blazing fast. I’ll be giving it a go for awhile.

I don’t care about the lack of pinch zoom. The double tap to zoom in is quick, but to zoom out it’s kinda rubbish. The scrolling sucks balls. The Droid native browser and even Dolphin can flick once and reach the bottom of a long page in 2 seconds. With Opera and the iPhone it takes like 20 flicks to do the same thing. I’ll pass.

I’m using the 2.1 multitouch browser from the Droid OTA we never received. It’s very fast, not quite Opera fast but it doesn’t load crappy quality pictures to increase speed. It’s probably twice as fast as the browser on 2.0.1. Droid owners not rooted, be patient.

Steel is very nice browser for Android too. I prefer it over dolphin. It’s very Spartn though, not a lot to it, but its fast and it works.