Comments on: BlackBerry popular handset for Opera users

By: BlackBerry Gaps (Weekly Contest) | BlackBerry Cool

BlackBerry Gaps (Weekly Contest) | BlackBerry Cool — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:10:12 +0000

[...] Opera’s monthly report for June took a look at the popular handsets that folks are using with their mobile browser all around the world and BlackBerry got all kinds of gold stars – being one of the top most popular handsets to feature Opera. Commenter mikedoan said: “…Do the results that you speak of really point to the BB’s popularity as a handset or is it just another indication/reinforcement of the fact that most BB user’s receive a substandard browsing experience (using the native BB Browser).“ [...]

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:44:10 +0000

In theory, popularity about BB is not browsing, but becaouse never was great product. If was better, would add as popularity. I rarely use browser in my BB (either opera or BB browser), since it is slow and prefer uso Viigo when reading posts, just the text of a post.

But I think with HSDPA comes with improving the browser, since speed is so fast that is no longer an issue. It would be usefull for writing posts, comments, etc…

By: mikedoan

mikedoan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:52:18 +0000

I myself use both the native BB Browser as well as Opera Mini 4.1 on my 8100. I have also just started using Opera 9.5 for Windows Desktop. Great combination with the abillity to sync ’speed dials’ across both platforms.

I must ask the question though…

Do the results that you speak of really point to the BB’s popularity as a handset

Is it just another indication/reinforcement of the fact that most BB user’s receive a substandard browsing experience (using the native BB Browser).

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:30:32 +0000

I actually like Opera Mini. Works cool, much better than the Blackberry browser. I have a BB 8707 3G and works “ok”. I visited the web pages tested for BB Bold in BoyGenius test report, and found that the opera does better job than new BB Bold browser. So when getting the Bold, I will be using the Opera mini and the HSDPA power with it. I drop a question: Should have BB partnered with a browser company like Opera, Firefox, etc… to provide better products in browser??