[…] Another highlight is the navigation: Opera Mini returns to the navigation style of Opera 6 for Symbian, but in reverse. Version 6.x of Opera for Symbian allows you to choose links by moving the directional control (joystick or pad) left and right, and to page with up/down. The current Symbian version – 8.x – dispensed with the paging and uses both up/down and left/right to select links and scrolling pages quickly you have to do some annoying key juggling (as I’ve mentioned in a previous post). The Mini on the other hand brings back the paging capability but in reverse: up/down choose links and left/right pages up or down – which sounds weird but after a few runs it gets to be second nature and besides – on the verticaly scrolled display of the pages it makes much more sense to use the up and down motions to select links (and like with the Opera browser for Symbian, if the next link is out of view, the view scrolls up or down to it automatically). Having the pager “smooth scroll” the view is just a bonus (and its configurable), but its fast and makes paging much more usable. […]