Opera for Series 60 tutorial

Learn how Opera for Series 60 works and how to make use of Opera's features and functions.

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Nokia 6680

Introduction

Opera for handhelds and mobiles is a full Internet browser that gives you access to any kind of Web site.

  • Access the full Web
  • Use the entire screen for browsing in full-screen view
  • Skip headings and menus and go straight to the text
  • Use keypad shortcuts for quick access to important features
  • Bookmark your favorite sites
  • Download images and other files to your phone
  • Browse faster with the Opera Mobile Accelerator

Download Opera 8.0 for Series 60 now.

This tutorial was last updated for Opera 8.0 for Series 60, which runs on:

  • Nokia: 3230, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680/81/82, 7610, 7650
  • Siemens: SX-1
  • Samsung: SGH-D710/20/30
  • Panasonic: X700

Tutorials for versions 6.20 and 7.60 are also available.

Installing Opera

  • Use Bluetooth or infrared file transfer to copy the .sis file to your phone. If you do not have access to either, send the file to your phone as an e-mail attachment.
  • Open your phone's inbox and select the Opera .sis file you just transferred. This should start the installation.
  • If your phone has very little free memory left, you will likely get an out-of-memory message during installation. If you have already received the message "Saving file to Installer", you can safely delete the Opera .sis file from your inbox, which should free enough memory to finish the installation.
  • Go to Tools > Manager and select the Opera installation file. Go to Options > Install, then follow the instructions.

Tip: Installing to a memory card (E:) is recommended, as it will leave more memory for browsing and other applications.

Setting up Internet Access

To first set up your phone to connect to the Internet, you will need to define an Internet Access Point (IAP), a GPRS or high-speed connection. If your phone is not set up with an access point, you can add one manually.

Preconfigured access points

If preconfigured access points are available, select the option that has the word "Internet" in it, rather than, for example, "MMS" or "WAP".

Manually adding access points

  • Go to your phone's main menu
  • Open Tools > Settings
  • Select "Connection" and "Access points "
  • Press "Options" and select "New access point"
  • If asked, choose "Default settings"

Opera provides an on-line guide for setting up access points: www.opera.com/connect/

Once you open Opera, a connection dialog will pop up if you are not connected to the Internet. When prompted, select your defined access point and your phone will establish a connection.

Tip: Go to Opera's settings to select a default access point, or even set Opera to connect automatically.

Opening Web Pages

Select "Options > Open > Web Page" or press 1. Enter a Web address (URL) and click "OK".

Tip: Press the joystick down to choose between prefixes and suffixes to avoid typing the entire URL.

Tip: Press the joystick up for a history of previously entered addresses.

Go to Tools > Search or simply press 9 to search the Web directly without first accessing a search engine site.

Opera makes navigation on a small screen uncomplicated.

Basic page navigation

  • Moving the joystick in either direction navigates to the next link in that direction.
  • Keep the joystick pressed down up or down to scroll fast in either direction.
  • Pushing the joystick in opens links.

The small, blue indicator on the right side of the screen is your "scroll bar", telling you where you are on the current page.

Jump to text

Access the settings to make Opera automatically jump to the first text portion of a Web page. Skipping such elements as menus and headings significantly speeds up browsing and navigation. If you prefer the manual setting, you can still press 3 to go directly to the "Jump to text" point, which will then function as a pre-set tag.

Tags

Tags are temporary bookmarks you can set on a Web page to easily jump between points in the document and find your way back to items you would like to explore further.

Set a tag by pressing 6. The tag will be visible as a small, white indicator in the scroll bar area on the right side of the screen; when you are at a tag's exact location, the blue indicator will cover the white one.

All tags are deleted when the page is reloaded. Pages are not reloaded when using the browser's "Back" function, which makes tags a convenient way of marking, for example, all links to articles you would like to read on a news page. Follow an article link, read it, go back to the originating page, and move to the next tag.

Press 3 to move between tags that you have set in a page.

Display Modes

Go to Options > Display to get access to Opera's different display modes.

Full screen

The entire screen will be used for browsing if you activate Opera's full-screen mode. This mode is off by default.

Press * (or use the menu) to turn full-screen mode on or off.

Fit to screen

Opera's Small-Screen Rendering™ (SSR) technology reformats Web pages to fit your screen. This is enabled by default to ensure a comfortable surfing experience on a small screen. If disabled, Opera will show Web pages without this alteration.

Press # (or use the menu) to turn Small-Screen Rendering off or on.

Keypad Shortcuts

Using keypad shortcuts is a lot faster than using menus. Therefore, the buttons on your phone's numeric keypad have been assigned functions. Please note that these shortcuts are not available after pressing "Options" to open the menus.

  • * Full-screen mode on/off
  • # Small-Screen Rendering on/off
  • 1 Open Web page
  • 2 Open bookmarks
  • 3 Go to next tag in page
  • 4 Open home page
  • 5 Load images on/off
  • 6 Set tag
  • 7 Add bookmark for page
  • 8 Open settings
  • 9 Search the Web
  • 0 Load next image

Tip: The phone browser's home page has a direct link to a local copy of the keypad shortcut overview.

Filling in Forms

Many Web pages, such as search engines and e-mail services, include form fields that require entering text.

  • Press the joystick left/right to move between form field, and push the joystick in to activate
  • Boxes and buttons that are focused will be highlighted
  • Use the keypad to enter text in the input fields
  • When you are done entering the text, push the joystick again and move to the next form field or to the submit/search button

Note: Your phone's dictionary/T9 function will be automatically disabled for password form fields.

Viewing Images

By default, Opera downloads and displays images. Since Web pages can have a large amount of images that take time to download, you can also choose not to load any images, or to cached images only.

When images are disabled, images containing links will be displayed as text boxes with links.

Press 5 to toggle image loading directly, or change the default in Opera's settings.

Saving Images

You can store images from the Web locally on your device. This allows you, for example, to send the stored image as an MMS or an e-mail attachment.

To save an image, select it, then go to Options > Image > Save image.

Launch your image gallery from the phone's menu to view your saved images.

Bookmarks

The easiest way to bookmark a Web page is to press 7. To manage your bookmarks,

  • press 2 (or use the menu) to open the bookmarks view
  • press joystick up/down to highlight a bookmark
  • select Options > Manage bookmarks > Properties/edit

Opera recognizes bookmark nicknames; you can enter and save short, easy-to-remember names for as many bookmarks as you wish under "Properties/edit". To open a bookmark by its nickname, just press 1 and enter the nickname.

Tip: While in "Bookmarks" view, you can move the joystick right to go to the "Transfers" tab.

Faster Browsing

In the settings you will find the option of enabling the Opera Mobile Accelerator; a proxy-based solution that allows you to browse faster and cheaper. When you enable this service, you will be taken to www.opera.com/proxy to register and receive a 14 day free trial.

Read more about the Opera Mobile Accelerator.

Privacy

If you share or occasionally lend your mobile phone, you may be concerned about others viewing your browsing history. To clear all private data stored by the browser, use Tools > Delete private data after finishing your browsing session.

You may of course also set the browser not to cache any information, but note that this is likely to slow down browsing significantly.

Learn More

For more information about the browser and support, see the Opera for mobile support pages.