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Have you ever tried to access Gmail’s web version using Opera Mini 3.1? Earlier I didn’t need to, because the Gmail mobile client allowed me to change users. Since its latest version doesn’t, I’m using Opera Mini and the native S60 browser to check my Gmail accounts.

I found a ridiculous bug in Opera Mini. The ‘Browse’ button in the Compose page of Gmail shows a camera icon instead. Select it and press the joystick, you get Opera Mini’s ‘Take photo’ page. I found it to be too funny to leave it there, so I pressed the joystick and *click* got a 42 kb image with 640×480 resolution. Then I pressed OK. Result: the new image was attached to the e-mail.

Pretty useful when you want to e-mail freshly captured photo, but as the old joke goes, it’s not a feature, it’s a bug! I haven’t tried this on other web-based e-mail services, but I’m sure they would be getting the same treatment from Opera Mini. Check out the screen snap below.

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