Comments on: Video: Opera Mini vs. Pocket Internet Explorer

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:02:09 +0000

One thing I was wondering, if you just hard-reset this device, why were all of those Java applets installed? Do those come with the Tilt? Also, unless you installed X-Button or the more recent version, HTC Task Manager, doesn’t WinMo just minimize after you click the “X” to close something? On my HTC 6800 I had to install that task manager to keep programs from running in the background after minimizing them with the “X”. Is the Tilt different in that respect?

Still, your experience with these browsers pretty much mirrors mine. Opera Mini is a decent browser.

By: Lawmune

Lawmune — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:43:08 +0000

Nice comparison of the two browsers on the same device. Having owned a very similar Windows Mobile handset in the past, I would predict that when browsing the Web off of Wi-fi, and only using cellular networks, the speed difference between Opera Mini and PIE would be even more dramatic (due to Opera Mini’s server-side compression).

By: yeeliberto

yeeliberto — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:43:05 +0000

Yeah, I noticed the same but when I used Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile 2003.
Opera rules.

By: pdx77

pdx77 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:36:49 +0000

to be fair (and I use Opera Mini) this is really not a fair comparision, he should be comparing Opera Mobile 8.65 to Internet Explorer Mobile and see how the compare. Opera Mini is nice, but it doesn’t support copy/paste and some other things that are common in PDA browsers. Now when Opera Mobile 9 comes out (hopefully soon, any updates?) things well be different.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:07:02 +0000

So when are we going to get that windows mobile version?