A treat for Nokia N9 users - an official Opera Mobile 11.5 Labs release
Since our previous releases of Opera Mobile for MeeGo, we have noticed that a lot of our users have been hanging out for an official Opera Mobile build for the Nokia N9 and N950 Harmattan phones. Well, today is your lucky day — we're happy to announce that a Labs release of Opera Mobile 11.5 for Harmattan is available for download now.
Some of the updates since the Opera Mobile 11 MeeGo ARM developer preview build include:
- upgrade to Opera Mobile 11.5
- autorotation support (in all four orientations — prepare to get dizzy)
- buttons near the bottom edge of the screen behave properly (those of you who modified the Opera Mobile 11 developer preview build may have noticed some issues with touches on the edges of the screen, since this older build was not designed to work with Nokia's Swipe UI. Thanks to Gustav "thumbs of death" Tiger for figuring out how to reproduce these problems!)
- the internet connection dialog will be opened if you attempt to browse the web while not connected to the internet
You can download and install Opera Mobile 11.5 using your phone's default browser. However, if you prefer not to use Ovi store, you should enable this setting: Settings → Applications → Installations → Allow installations from non-Store sources, and then download the deb package from our server.
Known issues:
- this build (like the previous Opera Mobile 11 MeeGo ARM developer preview) is not optimised to conserve power — if you load a webpage with animations and leave Opera running, your battery will continue to drain, even when Opera Mobile is running in the background and/or the screen is turned off
- the system on-screen keyboard is not supported
- Adobe Flash and other plugins are not supported
- HTML5 video is not supported
- haptic feedback/vibration is not supported
Thanks to Fredrik Öhrn for helping merge some Maemo-specific tricks from our N900 builds.
Note: if you have an Intel Atom based MeeGo netbook or tablet, try the Opera Mobile Labs 11.5 for MeeGo netbooks and tablets build instead.
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Comments
maxart
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Elias Balafoutis
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Andreas Bovens
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Voimis
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
But it needs improvements - as you of course know. It's still not a stable, final realease.
The first thing in your priority list should be support for the system on-screen keyboard. There's no way I'd use the Opera keyboard, it sucks so much.
SuGaRDaD
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
But Still NO Greek keyboard support :'(
Please consider adding Greek Keyboard IME or enable the use of N9 Built in Keyboard ....
kermit39
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tiago Joao Silva
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Maybe one convincing way to get an Opera manager to sign off on programmer time to integrate Harmattan keyboard and spellchecking on Opera Mobile for the N9, would be to point out that you'll solve the problem of people with greek and cyrillic alphabets, which are very important markets for Opera.
Gianluca Diella
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
WE WANT OPERA FOR WINDOWS PHONE
Chris Mills
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Maciek
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
MtheF
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
2ndlife
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Nice work. Definitely worth waiting for.
I hope there will be time and resources available to keep on improving Opera experience for N9.
royster70
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
As mentioned by some others - it would be great to include the N9 keyboard as an option - having said that its very good in English for me
Not sure if this is something addressed by the Opera browser or is part of OS - but it would be great if it there was a way to allow Opera to have the option to be the default browser for the N9 (like the PC option that prompts when you start the browser for the first time).
And one final thing - any plans to support Flash as well (as it now looks like Flash will be supported by Fennec on the N9 very very soon....)
Thanks again for getting my favourite browser to work with the N9 :)
ccc
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Native N9 keyboard support would be good so we can use Swype within Opera.
Keep up the good work and I hope the updates continue!
Thanks again.
Krogulec
Friday, February 24, 2012
rashm2k
Friday, February 24, 2012
sparq
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
sparq
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thumbs up ;-)
"And one final thing - any plans to support Flash as well"
Flash shifts balance of power over internet, content and technology from the people to corporations and webmasters. I prefer open web standards and HTML5. HTML5 video support would be great.
aleksandar10
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Edward Batten
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Flash would be awesome, since there is a lot of flash content, like it or not. Right now, FF is our only flash option, and I would love it if you folks might have a plugin available? I bet you could spank FF, if you wanted to.
I like your keyboard okay, but N9 keyboards would help, THOUGH cut and paste integration with the rest of the device is more valuable to me.
Thanks for the cool product. . .
et3rnal mind
Thursday, April 19, 2012
varacity
Sunday, June 17, 2012
The only thing stopping me from using this browser exclusively is due to the fact that it does not use the N9's keyboard. The N9's keyboard is a joy to use, in my opinion, and as such makes it very hard to change.
hs1967
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Tiago Joao Silva
Monday, July 9, 2012
Changes seen so far:
* Presto 2.10.254
* Possible to change User Agent (to S60, Android, MeeGo and Desktop)
* Localization of the interface for Portuguese and possibly other languages
* Setting for using the native harmattan keyboard (Always, For everything but web addresses, Never) Too many bugs
I'm willing to report all of them: Keyboard hides active text field - does not push page up; always appears in landscape, even when phone and Opera are in portrait; native keyboard is hard to dismiss; text written by native keyboard appears very very small on Google search field of the address bar; sometimes even the two keyboards appear at the same time.
* Adds new pages to Speed Dial
* Seems to PEG the CPU at 100% (Labs 11.5 did not sleep when idle, but wasn't always 100%)
* No Mobile Extensions support (still Android-only)
varacity
Friday, July 13, 2012
Mostyn Bramley-Moore
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Changelog for 12.00.2:
* Update to version 12, overview of new features: http://my.opera.com/mobile/blog/2012/02/27/opera-mobile-12
* Removed bundled Droid fonts, switched to using Nokia Pure Text.
* Suspend scripts, animations, etc. while in background to save power.
Changelog for 12.00.6:
* Opera can now be set as default in Settings, Applications, Web, Default browser.
* Fixed display of CJK and Indic fonts in title bar and other UI elements.
* Fixed user-agent header to properly indentify as Linux instead of (null).
* Removed broken native on-screen keyboard support.
Changelog for 12.00.8:
* Fixed suspend when in background.
* Fixed MIME types preventing images from opening in the gallery.
* Enabled custom user agent setting in opera:config.
* Fixed user agent to correctly identify as a mobile device.
ae868186
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Roby
Sunday, September 9, 2012
M.P.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
A new option (I think) is ,Touchscreen feedback' -- sounds promising, but I couldn't get it to work?!
Unfortunately still the homemade keyboard.
@Mostyn Bramley-Moore: Thanks for posting the changelog.
Mostyn Bramley-Moore
Friday, October 19, 2012
* Fixed Opera Turbo off when on WiFi setting.
* Fixed display of simplified Chinese in in title bar and other UI elements.
* Added Cantonese, Finnish, Kazakh, Malay, Persian, Romanian, Slovene, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese translations.
See the Android announcement for details on whats new in Opera Mobile 12.1. (As usual not all new features may be present in the N9 version.):
http://my.opera.com/mobile/blog/2012/10/09/opera-mobile-12-1-for-android