S60 Open to new features

Bradley, have you had a chance to test it on an N91-2 yet?

Boom

Hi Bradley,

Nice of you to take time and reply to my rant.

What percentage of the respondents on the survey used the N91-2? None I guess as the N91-2 was released after the survey completed.

I mean sequentially, I never even dared to try 4 pages concurrently! Simple way to reproduce; try www.bbc.co.uk WITHOUT images, click the major links, browse 4 to 5 pages and you'll start seeing memory full messages.

With images on I don't think you'll get past even one page.

I know the music player is taking up a lot of memory but S60/Nokia should think about such things before selling it, what's the point of selling a device where a major feature cannot be used due to another major feature.

I don't think there's any fix to this problem; the memory can't be increased and the music player can't be terminated from memory (who knows what that will affect). The OSS team is not going to rearrange memory consumption just for one device.

I'm just waiting for something nice to come out, I'll get rid of the N91-2 in a flash.

Boom

Hello,

I should point out in some phones the media player is constantly in memory which leaves little for other apps - off the top of my head, not exactly sure which devices.

Regarding the article itself, I found it interesting although it concentrated more on mobile web content rather than a discussion of the different browsers. Opera Mini is a nice browser (as you say, not least for its portability!) although its rendering is of course quite different to the s60 browser. I personally subscribe to the "One True Web" :-)

Cheers,
Bradley

I don't know that Opera Mini is the "only" usable browser on the N91-2, I haven't used anything else. But the reporter should have at least mentioned the OSS browser and/or Opera Mini. Give the complete picture of today's mobile browsing.

Hello Boom,

Nice to hear from you.

> Opera Mini is the only usable browser on the N91-2

I'm afraid a majority don't agree with that :-).

> The OSS browser does not work as there is never enough memory to load more
> than 4 pages at a go; EVEN WITHOUT IMAGES

Really?

It's not clear if you mean sequentially or concurrently, but regardless we'd love some details - ideally including steps to reproduce - and let the development team know via:

http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/S60Buzilla

Thank you for your feedback.

Regards,
Bradley

Opera Mini is the only usable browser on the N91-2. The OSS browser does not work as there is never enough memory to load more than 4 pages at a go; EVEN WITHOUT IMAGES.

How wonderful!

Boom

Rob Pegoraro is a good reporter who respects suggestions from techies. He has become an advocate of OpenOffice, thanks to emails from myself and other readers. I just sent him an email recommending Opera Mini. His address: robp@washpost.com

I wonder if that reporter has ever check out the Opera Mini browser, which runs on most phones -- even the crappy ones. I use Opera Mini very often, I'm able to access most sites (such as Bloglines and Gmail).