A Marela member notified us, that file upload doesn’t work in Opera Mini . It’s true, because Opera Mini doesn’t support file uploads which you can easily check by visiting two demo pages with valid XHTML. You shouldn’t see a file input element on either of them.

I believe (but as an outsider obviously can’t prove) it lacks upload support for security reasons. Every web request handled by Opera Mini gets transported over a proxy, which fetches the page in questions and translates it in a compressed format suitable for viewing on small screen devices. This means that file uploads would be sent to proxy as well which depending on what is sent can be seen as a security violation.

Of course it does allow logging in websites, a potentially unsafe action, which puts my speculation on shaky grounds. But the true point of this article still stands. Opera Mini doesn’t support file uploads.

Finally somebody who makes sense .

It’s nice to have friends, especially the generous kind who buy a new Nokia N80 and lend it to you even before they had a chance to use it themselves. I’m not sure if N80 is the best mobile in the world, but it is by far the best phone I’ve had in my hands. I’m left with few excuses from finishing my uploader and provided that other obligations don’t tax me too much, it should be finished in next week or so.

I’ve stumbled on two small problems. I’d like to automatically tag images with phone model on which they were taken, but I don’t know how to read it. Is this possible at all?

The other problem seems to be a limitation of PyS60 API or its documentation. You are limited to use of text as tab titles, which are too small for this to be useful. That’s why you see developers displaying tab title in place of application title. Is there a workaround for this?

Update: As advised by cyke64 I found how to read phone model on Nokia’s forums. My project has been hit with a setback, since I also discovered there’s no version of Python for N80 yet.