Opera Mini 4.2 finally makes its way to the Android Market

[badbob001]

Finally! Death to horizontal scrolling.

If you never used opera mini before: use the trackball and scroll up and down to move between links and left and right to page up / down. Opera Mini is best used with a dpad but the trackball is okay. Definitely not really fat finger friendly and wasn't designed for it.

[wilbur]

Originally Posted by badbob001

Finally! Death to horizontal scrolling.

If you never used opera mini before: use the trackball and scroll up and down to move between links and left and right to page up / down. Opera Mini is best used with a dpad but the trackball is okay. Definitely not really fat finger friendly and wasn't designed for it.

worth mentioning that this only works in mobile view...


Lots of bad-mouthing going on about this app at the moment but i think it is superb. I agree it takes a little getting used to, and the very best apps are intuitive from the start, but once you get the hang of it (or if you come from a series 60 world where you used opera mini for ages) it is an incredible browsing experience as it is so fast to load, and using the trackball scrolling mentioned above makes navigating around a page so quick too. (works best with mobile-formatted websites - m.google.com m.ft.com mobile.live.com bbc.co.uk/mobile kizoom.mobi m.facebook.com are my favs )...

On the downside, using "mobile view" on non-mobile websites can be a confusing experience due to the rearranged layout, so i can see this is a barrier for new users.