So I saw some of the raves for Opera Mini, the new mobile phone web browser, especially Russell Beattie’s excitement: “Opera Mini: Best Mobile Web Browser Bar None.”
So I fired up the Treo 650, and used the installed web browser, Blazer (I think), and went to mini.opera.com. It was very smooth until the very last bit. The Opera server properly recognized my phone (due to the user-agent, I’m sure) as a Treo 650. I was offered a link to download the 210K .prc file, and the dialogs from there were smooth (not sure whether that’s Palm OS or Opera, or both).
I went to open Mini, and then I ran into the gap which blocks me from using it at all: “Please ensure that IBM’s WebSphere Micro Environment Java VM is installed.” Damn. How do I find a Treo-based method for (a) finding and (b) installing that? Palm.com, ironically, does no browser detect, and gives me a mobile-unfriendly site.
So I used Google on the phone. First result is a Palm support site, and the second result is an IBM site. Neither one offers a mobile download/install, so I’ll have to download to a computer and sync it over.
Curses… this was almost as easy as it’s supposed to be.
Anyone have a link directly to what I need? Is this something I can install via the current web browser on the phone?
3 responses so far ↓
1 John // Jan 31, 2006 at 3:45 pm
You and everyone else has this problem, and no one seems to know how to solve it…
2 valter // Mar 20, 2006 at 11:52 pm
http://www.palm.com/us/support/jvm/. Just in brackets, on the site there is link to that too - “Before installation IBM JVM has to be installed.”
More interesting is the
“Known issues with Opera Mini” paragraph (last on eespecially):
“Unable to use smooth font due to bad performance. The screen is flickering unless double buffering is enabled. The phone occasionally reboots while surfing.”
- would you share your experience with treo/opera?
3 dominic // May 6, 2008 at 8:46 am
well. As of Jan 12, 2008, Palm no longer supports JVM.
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