Opera MiniI change my smartphone, and now I have a Windows Mobile 6 inside it. Googling, searching, and find that Opera Mini is the best mobile browser exists. It is very fast (because all content is compressed before passing to our mobile handset), easy to read (mobile screen is very different with desktop right?) and the best thing is : free.

One problem that I found before using this Opera Mini is : it is Java midlet, and my WinMob smartphone (Samsung i600) does not have a built-in java capabilities or a midlet manager. Again, googling, and found that JBED is the best Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for winmob smartphone. I use JBedRose, because it give a full-screen capabilities. Some JVM is not a full-screen when it is executed from WM. There is a small part on the bottom of the screen that is not handled by the JVM, and this jbedrose can handle it. The main plus of this jbedrose is the speed. I try some other JVM, and found no one can beat her speed.

Install jbedrose, install Opera Mini 4.2, and voilla, it is run perfectly. But … why the font is very strange? It is too small, and not so clear for reading in my screen [landscape 320x240] (compared to the old jbed version that I used before). Ask Mr. Google, and found this clue from XDA Developers site :

Add registry key called : \HKLM\Software\Apps\Esmertec Java\Device Info\Java Font\
and create these string values : Size Large, Size Medium, and Size Small … I personally like these settings :
Size Large = 21
Size Medium = 17
Size Small = 13

There are also some useful information about jbed that I really like :

1) if we want to allow the midlet to get full access (no more question to access the phone resources, such as network, files, etc), we can edit the selector.utf file stored in the \storage card\program files\jbedrose\appdb folder, in the domain part. The default domain for untrusted midlet is : domain=untrusted … its need to be changed to domain=tckmax___ (change _ with space, why? to make the text length same with the original: untrusted is 9 chars, tckmax is only 6, need to add 3 more spaces). After that, jbed will never ask the restriction question again.

2) to make a shortcut to a specific java midlet, just create a lnk file (for example operamini.lnk) and put this text: 56#"\storage card\program files\jbedrose\jbed.exe" -run s0_
56 is a lenght of text after # (in my experience, we can put a bigger number instead of counting the real text length), text inside the “” is the exact location of our jbed.exe and s0_ is the code for the midlet that we like to run using that shortcut. How to get it? Open the selector.utf, and check the root= value just after the midlet name indicated in the suite= parameter.

My last and still problem with jbedrose is the font to display the midlet list and handle the text input is too small. I like the size used by the old jbed, which is larger. Try to find the solution for it, and still no luck :p)