Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Installing Opera Mini, the new web browser for Palm
Opera Software has finally released Opera Mini, the version for handheld devices of his famous cross-platform Web browser with a version for Palm. The mobile version keeps the characteristics of his older brother: speed, nice interface and accessibility.
This is a Java application, specifically MIDP 2.0 profile. Therefore, we will need to install the Java virtual machine on our Palm, and then run the Opera Mobile. This virtual machine is required to run this and other Java applications on the Palm. These are the steps to install both components:
- The Java virtual machine (specifically the WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment, a product of IBM), we can lose this page from Palm. The archive today is called a ZIP WEME571.zip. We downloaded to your PC and decompress.
- Go into the folder "JVM/ARM4T" inside and find several programs for the Palm. To get the Spanish version, we installed the files J9JavaVMMidp20.prc, J9JavaVMMidp20_es.prc and JavaVMCheck_esES.prc. That will have already installed the Java virtual machine.
- Now install what is in it the Opera Mobile. Come to this page (do not worry because they put Tungsten C, applies to all models), choose from the dropdown menu at the bottom "Spanish", and appear two downloads. The second, finished. "Jar" is the file you are going to download directly from the Palm. We target the route of that file.
- At the Palm, open the program "IBM Java VM" and choose "Install". Where the URL is asking us, we write the full path of the download. In my case, it was: http://mini.opera.com/global/opera-mini-advanced-es.jar. We accept, and may be downloading it. When finished, we leave this program, and we will have an icon called Opera Mini. This is the browser.
Opera Mini once activated the high-resolution mode (see end of post)
We notice that the Opera Mini is designed mainly for mobile phones. Everything is done with the two buttons at the bottom. It is quite elegant, and above all easy to use. I liked that integrates functions of the Opera desktop, as the progress bar shows that are downloaded Kb the one at the moment. It is quite light, especially compared with the Blazer that comes by default with the Tungsten E2. The pages load very fast. And something that is appreciated is that the pages long divided into several parts, not to fill the memory of the Palm, like Google Mobilize. In short, a good web browser for Palm, I recommend that you try.
Published: Zapan alerts as well in the comments, there is a version of Opera Mini in PRC, to be able to install it during a Hotsync, without having to download it via the Internet page of the Opera. In any case, we have also installed the first Java virtual machine.
Let us use one method or another, the program installed, since you try to install the PRC on my Palm, having followed the original process, I received the error:
- Already exists: C: \ Palm \ palmOne \ Marcos \ Install \ mini-opera-1.2.2960-advanced-es.prc Install failed synchronization protocol Error: the file already exists. (400B)
On the page for the download, gives a tip for a Treo 650 users who want to use Opera Mini: turn the double buffering in the virtual machine. This option is in the "Preferences" from our Palm, in the category that is created called "IBM Java VM." We entered the box and select "Use double-buffer."
Important: at the same site there is an option of "Use high resolution coordinates." If you have a Palm high-resolution, actívenla. When I tried the Opera Mini I did not like the finish, because it seemed designed for low-resolution devices. But with this action on, the quality of the images, interface, etc., a considerable improvement. I upgraded the catch which is shown in the article to be seen.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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On the page there is a version of Opera. Prc supposed to TREO, is it so?
Well, not the saw, and even though I do not look for her. Can you give a link?
Ah! I just find the. prc on another page: http://mytreo.net/downloads/details-838.html?Opera_Mini
Yes, says it is necessary to have Java installed to be able to use it, so I guess it's the same thing, but in PRC, to avoid having to download it via the Internet.
If you give me the link found on page of Opera, it will put in the article.
Thank you
This is the link:
http://www.opera.com/produc ...
I've seen in PDAMexico.
Zapan thank you very much.
He added that option, and in passing a few more things that I have read on this page: what good is now seen at high resolution. I love it.
Blazer I use regularly, simply because it came with my Palm TX factory. After reading your note, maybe try Opera Mini. With the installation I had no problems (as it is your very detailed explanation) but does not work for me!
Any URL you want to surf tells me "An error has occurred." I go surfing with Blazer in a WiFi network with HTTP proxy authentication with Will does not support "proxy" the Opera? Does anyone browsing through a proxy and I was able to walk?
Blazer has the option of setting it up, but not Opera Mini. However, in the configuration of the Java virtual machine (you know, "Preferences" of the Palm) that it is possible to define the http proxy.
See if you operate
The WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment does not work with the Sony Clie TJ-37.
There are more Java virtual machines for Palm. The first is that I can think of is that of the Sun: http://java.sun.com/products/midp4palm/download.html
Tomorrow I will make the tests.
With the Sun virtual machine is not working because the MIDP 1, and the Opera only works with the MIDP 2. I found an older version of IBM, discharged with a link that is in the CD of the Zire72 and works well with the CLIA?. Now I can tap into the opera to see that this is (at least as boots).
As if someone does not know the Opera Mini works through a proxy that is typical of the Opera amending the pages to reduce them, that to our frees PALM work, but I do not know that that will work with a few pages, or that such speed bearing in mind that the first filtered with the proxy operates before reaching our hands. Furthermore, we do not know if they can have access to what we see, just in case, if planeais a bomb, not by what diagis webmail through the Opera