Comments on: Opera Mini on the Sidekick

By: karl

karl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:44:33 +0000

where can i download this thing?can you make a tutorial on how to download and put the opera mini on to the sidekick?

By: kljoj

kljoj — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:51:03 +0000

graciaas

By: cory

cory — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:34:35 +0000

Its interesting that we all wrote these i just bought a sidekick 08 my last phone being a boost moto w350 im on my sidekick right now finding out and cant have the browser that made me a myspace mobsters addict

By: teddy

teddy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:40:10 +0000

The sidekick browser blows

By: taxx1978

taxx1978 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:18:03 +0000

I just got a 2008 sk. It’s great, but some pages don’t fully load as they do with opera mini. Before, I had a crappy sony slider. Most of the functions failed within a few months, but I was able to run opera on it. it’s a pity that with such a great upgrade, somethings had to be sacrificed. Over all though, I’m pleased with my sk. The improvements since the last one I had (sk 2) are quite vast. The only thing missing in my opinion is the ability to run opera mini. I guess I’ll just have to deal with it until te bugs get worked out.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:41:53 +0000

Not all sites load properly in the built in browser of sidekick, Opera Mini tends to load many pages properly, so how do you get this software?

By: hamilton

hamilton — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:08:00 +0000

Why would you want opera mini on your sidekick? You have the web browser. Is it free to use once its on or what? Anyway you have unlimited data on hiptop browser

By: xballer4life818x

xballer4life818x — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:18:00 +0000

Can someone explain how I can get opera mini on my sidekick I tried signing up for the developer program I have a username but I got lost when installing the program.

By: mistergoodman

mistergoodman — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:12:42 +0000

I also bought an Ocean, and ended up returning it pretty quickly because I loathed the browser. As noted above, the Ocean doesn’t multitask, which to me was a deal-breaker by itself. But there was also the fact that the Ocean browser defaults to absurdly stripped down “mobilized” versions of web pages. Newspaper sites that I frequent were frequently broken down into 4 or more pages. Yeah, they load fast, but then I have to load the next part, and the next, and the next. Or I could load the HTML version, but always having to load the mobile version first pretty much ate up whatever speed advantage the Ocean had. There was no instant access to Google Search within the browser (Yahoo is no substitute). And there was the fact that the Ocean automatically exits the browser after a couple of minutes of inactivity. For years I’ve whipped my Sidekick from my pocket and read the news whenever I’ve had a spare minute. But with the Ocean I just spent all my time relaunching my browser and reloading my web pages. I felt the Helio built a web browser for phone users who don’t use web browsers.

It’s too bad, because I thought the Ocean was a sweet piece of hardware. But the software was frankly retarded, in my opinion. The browser was so bad, I didn’t even spend much time exploring the other features of the Ocean before I returned it.

(I’m not a platform loyalist though. I’m eyeing some of those new Windows Mobile 6 phones.)

By: rad55

rad55 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:06:58 +0000

Meh, it doesn’t really matter in the end. Both are great devices and to be really honest i do miss my kick. But the I just feel the ocean has more features that I like and that are geared to my preferences, as well as being smaller. I just wish that I didn’t go with the 2 year plan in case the Sidekick 4 blows me out of the water. (Which i don’t expect to be honest.) But if Helio doesn’t come with a new device in about a year or a year and a half, I may look into getting the newest sidekick available at the time. I’ll always be a true SK owner at heart, but It all depends. I’m super super SUPER happy with my ocean as of now