• Opera Mini 5 beta for Android Hands-on

    Opera Mini 5 beta for Android Hands-on

    Prasad Naik, Mar 11, 2010 1357 hrs IST

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Opera Mini 5 beta for Android uses the new tabbed browsing feature and the implementation of the tabs is possibly the best on any mobile browser till date. Pressing the Tab button brings up the tab tray and you can see the currently open tabs and add some of your own. 


 



 



 



 





Press the Settings button and you see most of which you would on any other version of Opera Mini 5 beta. There are a few omissions though. We did not find any option to use Opera's own QWERTY keyboard which the company debuted in the Mini 5 beta on the Java platform. But that's okay as it was pretty horrible to use, thanks to its small keys. There was also no option to manually set the orientation and the Android version would automatically adjust the UI orientation, according to the way the phone was held, with the help of the accelerometer.


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Kenn Lisudza
,Nairobi, on Mar 11, 2010 03:34 PM
"the only way to close it would be to restart the phone. " About this line here. You can avoid this by downloading an app called "Advanced Task Killer" which lets you kill running apps.You can download it from the Android Market.
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Raj
,Madurai, on Mar 11, 2010 03:05 PM
This is just about how Opera Mini 5 Beta works. How good is it compared to the native browser and Dolphin available in Market??
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