The war is on for the most sought-after tablet on the market, and the differentiation between the front-runners appears now, more than ever, to be strikingly high. What we’ve got from Apple is the iPad Air, a new far-smaller iteration of the same Retina display as the 4th generation unit. From Google there’s the Nexus […]
Mac Pro 2013 hands-on
Posted in: Today's ChiliBack when Apple first teased the Mac Pro 2013 at WWDC 2013 earlier this year it gave us few details and even less of a chance to get our hands on the barrel-shaped powerhouse. This time around, we have pricing, a release date, and even the chance to get our grubby fingers on the new […]
It’s the main thing we complained about in our original iPad mini review, and it’s the big thing Apple has addressed in its “iPad mini 2″, the addition of Retina Display technology. The new iPad mini with Retina display looks just like the old version until you turn it on, at which point life gets […]
iPad Air hands-on
Posted in: Today's ChiliWe knew Apple‘s full-sized iPad was going to get a significant refresh, and we weren’t wrong. The iPad Air takes the 9.8-inch screen of the fourth-gen iPad and wraps it up in a brand new, super-skinny casing; we’d usually take Apple’s “you have to feel it to believe it” commentary as hyperbole, but here’s one […]
This morning Apple has officially brought on a 2nd generation of their popular iPad mini tablet, complete with Retina display. This version of the iPad mini works with a body and presentation extremely similar to the original, working with a physical appearance not all that unlike the iPad mini’s first edition. This iPad mini will […]
Today Apple has unveiled their 5th generation iPad called the iPad Air, coming in a size and shape reflective of the success of the iPad mini. This iPad Air works with the same 9.7-inch LED-backlit multi-touch display as in the 4th generation iPad, working again with IPS LCD technology. The overall size and weight of […]
This morning the 2013 edition of Nokia World in Dubai was held with the likes of smartphones in the Lumia and Asha lines along with one lovely tablet. This event was meant to show the world that the hardware team at Nokia does not plan to let up now that they’re moving in with Microsoft, […]
Nokia Lumia 2520 hands-on
Posted in: Today's ChiliNokia’s Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet has been some time coming. The company’s last attempt at full Windows, the Nokia Booklet, proved too expensive and too slow, and Nokia’s enthusiasm for big-screen devices has waned ever since. The Lumia 2520 changes all that, however, a 10.1-inch alternative to the full-sized iPad and numerous Android tablets, […]
Nokia Lumia 1520 hands-on
Posted in: Today's ChiliNokia’s new flagship Lumia 1520 is big news and a big phone. The company’s first “phablet” Windows Phone, it marks the debut of official 1080p screen support in version 8.1 of Microsoft’s platform, not to mention a further distillation of Nokia’s investment into PureView camera technology down into the mass market. It’s also the device […]
This article was written on August 30, 2007 by CyberNet.
Opera is taking the mobile market by storm with its mobile browser. In July Opera Mini users browsed their way to nearly 1 billion pageviews, and it currently occupies about 0.24% of the total browser market according to Net Applications. That’s not too shabby since it’s being ranked among desktop browsers.
It’s not surprising that Opera continues to work heavily on the Opera Mini browser to pack in even more great features. Now Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 was just released earlier this morning, and with it comes dozens of improvements and bug fixes.
Two of the more notable features with this release is the ability to browse sites horizontally (pictured to the right), and the option to change your search engine. Now you can use Google as your default search engine instead of Yahoo. Here’s a quick look at everything that’s new, and it appears that there was some tender love and care given to Blackberry devices:
- Customized search engine – now you could put Google Search on the start page. You can also create a search from any search field.
- Shortcut keys
- Browse in landscape mode – view the Web on a wider screen (hit "*" then "#" on your phone)
- Native menu for BlackBerrys and several other optimizations.
- Content folding – Collapses long menu lists (like those found on sidebars of webpages), so you don’t need to scroll through them to get to the page content. Note: This only works in “Fit to width” mode, not desktop.
- Supports secure connections for banks, eBay, etc.
- Small fonts have been enabled
- Improved image quality
- Added ‘Full screen’ mode
- Web-2.0 looking dialogs
- Fixed a ton of bugs
For those of you wondering there will be at least one more Beta release before it hits final form. I also received some good news today, and it’s that the problem rendering our site’s navigation bar has been confirmed as a bug. Now they are working on a fix for it. 🙂
Kudos to Opera on yet another fine pre-release, and I can’t wait to see what Opera 9.5 Alpha will bring on Tuesday.
Get Opera Mini 4 Beta 2
Sources: Opera Watch & Opera Press Release
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