Comments on: MiniMo(zilla) coming to a cell phone near you

By: John Bartley K7AAY

John Bartley K7AAY — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:25:55 +0000

>MiniMo project can be found here: >http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
>
> It’s a stripped down browser only product ala Firefox.
> This is a Windows CE port and also works on Familiar Linux
> and Symbian. Maybe others on the way, not sure. This is
> based on Gecko 1.8 off the trunk so fairly recent.
>
> Posted by rebron at March 7, 2005 10:09 PM”

Where’s the download for the version running on Symbian? Or, does this mean the WinCE code can be installed on my Symbian S80 Nokia 9300 & run? Inquiring minds, et cetera.

By: unhappy pda2k user

unhappy pda2k user — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

this applies to pda2k/XDA IIs/XDA III/MDA III/M2000/SX 66/ QTEK 9090 etc

I have owned the pda2k for a few months now. its an amazing device, here is my short list of things i am extremely unhappy with even after installing the firmware fixes from imate, the bluetooth is a complete disappointment….and the placement of the mic, the voice FROM your device is horrible to the listener.

There are other smaller issues but I can live with those, but for a 900 USD device its critical that a main feature such as Bluetooth worked as advertised by imate and then the phone call on this quad band phone is no where close to acceptable.

SO i recommend that all general pda2k users email imate management and apply pressure on them to get their engineers to produce a fix before they rob a lot of customers. By the way, there is no official support from imate and they are TOO BUSY RELEASING OTHER PRODUCTS. Imate has promised all their registered memebrs on http://www.clubimate.com that the new release with ALL the fixes will be released in a few days, but this has been going on for months, few days has transltated into few months and I know pda2k and the series is not a priority for them anymore.

You dont want to beleieve me? visit http://www.clubimate.com and try and register? what?? you can’t? because imate doesnt want potential customers to know the real issues that current owners are actually facing by only alllowing current owners to register and join their forums meanwhile they DO NOT HAVE ANY CUSTOMER SUPPORT ANSWERING ON THE FORUMS….that should be proof enough. visit http://www.pocketpcdubai.com and checkout the forums section for more info on this.

Management:
ahmad.aldulemi@carrierdevices.com ;
shadi.zaytoon@carrierdevices.com ;
ann.degnan@carrierdevices.com ;

Employees:
maria.merchak@carrierdevices.com ;
anoop.nair@carrierdevices.com ;
youssef.houry@carrierdevices.com ;
feroz.abbas@carrierdevices.com ;
claire.towlson@carrierdevices.com ;
john.williamson@carrierdevices.com ;
sunil.jassal@carrierdevices.com ;
srushti.ghisad@carrierdevices.com ;
sami.awad@imate.com ;
mohammad.khalil@imate.com ;
jim@imate.com ;
raef@imate.com

By: bobbo

bobbo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

but how well can it render /. :-D

By: baush

baush — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For people asking about google maps, you can try the following, which is made for mobile web browsers :

http://mobile.google.com/local

By: usayd

usayd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thats nice, i posted it on my webby (www.usayd.com)
and i tried it out, it looked nice and all but had huge problems! i cant wait till its officially released (i was running HP iPaq rx3715 on 2003SE)

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I got it to work on my Dell Axim X30 624mzh.. errors out on a lot of pages like google.com or cnn.com but it was nice to see something other than Ie working on the axim.

However has anyone else notice that your taskbar gets put on the bottom while it has focus?

By: chall3ng3r

chall3ng3r — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

can anyone tell me minimo can run on imate sp1 (win2002) mobile.

current release of opera also ONLY runs on win2003 SPs, but there’s no browser for win2002 SPs other than builtin ie, which is damn feature-less.

i’d suggest to target win2002 SPs bcoz there’s no browser for them untill now.

By: croft

croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting because of what may come in the future, but the current state of minimo on CE is just unusable.

Perhaps a ways down the road it will be useful; the possibility to switch between portrait and landscape, handling of VGA screens etc other improvements may eventually make minimo the browser of choice on a Pocket PC. Right now though it is pretty useless, IMHO.

By: OzDave

OzDave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I copied all the files onto my Motorola MPx 220, and got MiniMo to startup, but nothing happens. Does anyone know if there a way to enter a URL, or even to tell it to go fetch Google?

By: Raoul Mengis

Raoul Mengis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very cool……
Test please with this web site: http://www.sionpassion.ch and send my any E-mail…. thank

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add-ons made for Firefox will run on MiniMo?

By: patientjuggler

patientjuggler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Guys I found this side (www.onev.com)
really interesting!
Get a closer look ;-)

Now it’s time for voice recognition interactive server based platform services for cell phone users even landline will benefit from this awesome technology firm.
The revelotion is here!

or here a nice messageboard with a wide range of news!
http://www.atomicbobs.com/index.php?board=118

patientjuggler

By: JayH6340

JayH6340 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Works with HP iPAQ H6340 using GPRS connection.

Now I’m Waiting for a landscape and auto-resize mode.

By: nandhp

nandhp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Maps? No, it appears to crash Minimo (Pocket PC 2003 iPAQ h4350)

By: Deus

Deus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t get it to run on my X50v. What file do I run?

By: Joar

Joar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I dont want to be a party pooper, but dont get your hopes up too high here guys…

1. Both Opera and Netfront has been developing their Mobile / PDA browser for 4-5 years already – why should the Minimo project manage to develop a contender in a year?

2. On thing is developing for Win Mobile (which has a quite similar development atmosphere as Windows) and Linux – but something completely different is Symbian! The Symbian OS is renovned for being crap and difficult to develop on, so I predict you have to wait a loooong time for a Minimo version for Symbian Series 60/80/90.

3. The largest challenge will anyway be that most of the mass-market Samrtphones have got not got much memory. Even though I understand that Minimo is mainly focussing on the highend pda market, you should remember that in Europe and Asia (where most of the gadgets with phone capabilities are sold) there are sold a lot less pdas than Advanced smartphones. …and Nokias latest smartphones 6680 and 6630 only have got 10 mb ram.

By: seth

seth — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, where’s the PalmOS port? I need this on my Treo yesterday… :p

By: tsahi

tsahi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

what about PalmOS? i think they have the 2nd largest market share for PDAs.

By: CT

CT — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seems to work great on my ipaq 4155. Extra comments and pics here:

http://www.abfnet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22920

By: db

db — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

> Operas browser only runs on phones, not on PDAs.

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/linux/

By: wamatt

wamatt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sweet, I just got the iMate PDA2k today, gonna try out minimo now. I hope it does landscape

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, but where the Symbian Series 60 support?

By: HTNet

HTNet — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice pics… but are there any with anything other than the Google site on it?

By: b00g

b00g — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

can i have fries with that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

any chance of getting one for J2me enabled cellphones :-)?