Opera 11.5 is out now, few novelties but still a great looker. Opera users are now 200 million.

The Opera browser has received yet another update – version 11.5. Bringing performance updates, widgets for the Speed Dial (like weather), as well as improvements to the Opera Link sync service.

The new “live” Speed Dial means that widgets can be placed where only webpages used to be. So now you can, for example, place a weather widget on a Speed Dial window and it will display weather information for a city of your choice with hourly updates.

The user interface of the new Opera 11.5 browser is even more minimalistic than before. The UI keeps out of the way to give users the comfort of a larger screen canvas to enjoy pages on.

Now Opera 11.5 detects the missing plug-ins you might need and installs them without the need to restart the browser.

“Opera 11.50 features a faster browser engine with thousands of stability fixes, a faster software graphics engine and more of the latest and greatest in web technologies. New improvements include support for HTML5 properties such as the element, Session History and Navigation, the W3C File API, classList and more.”

Finally Opera has put up an interesting statistic that all in all 200 million users are using Opera in some way – Opera, Opera mini and Opera mobile.

Here’s a promo video detailing the new features of Opera 11.5.

You can get the latest Opera here.

Android crosses 500,000 daily activations, poised to reach 1 million by October

You may remember back in December Andy Rubin, Senior VP of Mobile at Google, tweeted that over 300,000 Android phones are getting activated everyday. That was over six months ago and over two years from the launch of Android. But in those six months, the figures have almost doubled and according to his latest tweet, over 500,000 Android phones are getting activated everyday.

There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it's growing at 4.4% w/w

about 19 hours ago via web

@Arubin

Andy Rubin

That’s not all. The activations are growing at a rate of 4.4% per week, which means by the end of October, three years after the launch of the first Android phone, the number of Android devices getting activated will be just over 1 million. Whichever way you slice it, that’s a lot of phones being activated everyday.
Just in case you are wondering, a device is considered “activated” when you sign into your Google account for the first time on an Android phone. So there could be a lot more Android devices out there that haven’t been activated yet.
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Nokia talks about the N9 browser, shares some scores too

The N9 continues to top the worldwide charts for most interesting handset of the month and that’s the way Nokia made it. We waited for the first MeeGo device for nearly two years and now that it’s finally official we can’t keep off it. It’s made to blend in top notch design and innovative build quality with a “fresh out the oven” OS with Nokia’s knowhow of craftsmanship and technology all into one device. A powerful combo indeed.

Now the official Nokia blog – Conversations, is dedicating an article to the new browser of the N9, detailing how it works, how it feels, how it scores and what were the ideas behind it. Nokia-appointed “browser guru” Christian Sejersen shares that the N9′s Meego browser was designed with the idea not to annoy its users and keep out of the way while they are browsing. So the UI is quite minimalistic – much like on an Android powered smartphone.

Nokia N9 browser Top sites options and UI

It all starts with the Top sites screen, which saves your most visited webpages for quicker access at a later point.

Zooming in on pages is done by either double-tapping or pinch-zooming with two fingers. There’s also an option to enlarge text, which only affects the text and not the other stuff on the page. It’s a way to highlight what you’re reading and keep all distractions safely aside.

Nokia Conversations was also keen to brag about the Nokia N9 HTML5 support. The smartphone scored an impressive 283 points on the standard HTML5 compatibility test. For comparison, a standard Firefox desktop browser has about 270-280 on the same test and Nokia claims that it’s a very competitive results that will hardly be matched by any competitors. There’s also a quite long stats page for the test, featuring many other devices and OSes and indeed the Meego-representing N9 has the highest score, even topping the HTML5-capable iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3. The only mobile browser to beat the N9 is the iOS 5 Safari, which got 303 while still being in beta.

HTML5 test page scores: N9 and iPhone 4

Keep in mind that the N9 is a prototype pre-release device too and its results will likely improve as well.

Next Nokia listed the supported technologies by the Nokia N9 browser.

CSS 3
DOM Level 3
HTML over TCP/IP
HTML5
Javascript 1.8
Webkit 2 based
XHTML
XML

The N9 also doesn’t feature Flash support at this stage and it may very well end up without it on the shelves. This is so Apple but still has some logic by its side. Whether you like it or not, agree or not – Flash will probably be replaced at some point by HTML5. Still it would be more convenient to have Flash and be given the option to turn it off rather than to erase it from the equation all together.

Sadly Nokia doesn’t see MeeGo in its future plans and the N9 could very well fall victim to limited developer support (meaning no apps), software updates shortage and just general neglect.

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