Opera Mobile 10 features tabbed browsing, disses WinMo
Symbian freaks, do we have a treat for you! While all your WinMo-lovin' friends are out there with Opera Mobile 9.5 (or possibly 9.7), a beta of version 10 has just been announced exclusively for Nokia / Symbian smartphones. As well as being as speedy as ever (fifty percent faster than previous Symbian versions, or so it's been claimed), this release features a new-and-improved user interface, a "speed dial" page that displays all your fave sites as icons, and tabbed browsing. Not too shabby, eh? Hit the read link to get the thing for your Symbian/S60 phone -- but not before peeping the video after the break.
[Via Mobile Tech World]
[Via Mobile Tech World]
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Opera Mobile 10 beta brings powerful features to world's most-used smartphone platform
Oslo, Norway - November 3, 2009
Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. Most notable in the new Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta. The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available for free from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/.
Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology.
"Today's powerful smartphones deserve an equally powerful browser, like Opera," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "This beta continues our work to extend the desktop Web experience to mobile phones, allowing users to surf the Web without limitations, even while on-the-go. No matter the device in use, Opera delivers a faster, easier and hassle-free Web experience."
Fresh design
Alongside the new Opera Mini 5, Opera has revamped the look and feel of its mobile-browser portfolio to ensure that it is simple and intuitive, making mobile Web browsing easier than ever.
Desktop favorites on the mobile phone
Opera desktop feature favorites, including tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a Web site.
Advanced compatibility
Opera Mobile 10 beta uses the very latest generation of the Opera browser engine, ensuring that all your favorite Web sites and applications work exactly the way they do on a desktop computer.
Availability
Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/mobile/.
Oslo, Norway - November 3, 2009
Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. Most notable in the new Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta. The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available for free from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/.
Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology.
"Today's powerful smartphones deserve an equally powerful browser, like Opera," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "This beta continues our work to extend the desktop Web experience to mobile phones, allowing users to surf the Web without limitations, even while on-the-go. No matter the device in use, Opera delivers a faster, easier and hassle-free Web experience."
Fresh design
Alongside the new Opera Mini 5, Opera has revamped the look and feel of its mobile-browser portfolio to ensure that it is simple and intuitive, making mobile Web browsing easier than ever.
Desktop favorites on the mobile phone
Opera desktop feature favorites, including tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a Web site.
Advanced compatibility
Opera Mobile 10 beta uses the very latest generation of the Opera browser engine, ensuring that all your favorite Web sites and applications work exactly the way they do on a desktop computer.
Availability
Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/mobile/.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Danny @ Nov 4th 2009 2:52PM
Too bad the N97's pitiful memory makes Opera 10 almost unusable.
mike @ Nov 4th 2009 3:08PM
Have you ugraded your N97 to FW 2.0 (doesn't it free up more internal memory)? Sorry, but I'm just curious because I haven't been able to upgrade my own N97 yet (something about Nokia software updater software not being compatible with Windows 7?!?... F U Nokia!), not that it really matters anymore since I just got a Android phone about a week ago and will be putting this thing for sale very soon on ebay regardless of what the news is on that front. I fired up the N97 last night and downloaded Opera for shits and giggles just to see what the experience it offered was like, and immediately ran into a insufficient memory message when trying to open a web page... Besides that I really like the Opera browser, it gives the N97 something it was desperately missing, a kick ass browser. It handily beats Nokia's stock browser IMO.
KO @ Nov 4th 2009 4:27PM
@Danny,
I ask the same question: have you not updated your N97 to FW 2.0 yet? It includes much improved memory handling for the device, and has made my phone the snappiest it's ever been. I also downloaded Opera Mobile 10 a couple hours ago, and from what I've tested, it's really impressively fast. So try it out!
joemonkey @ Nov 4th 2009 4:02PM
its slow and chews up memory. But the feature are quite nice if thats anything to ya.
Phawx @ Nov 4th 2009 4:37PM
This is a godsend for i8910 users! It works perfectly on my phone. It's only a beta, but MAN! It is leagues better then the Symbian browser!
Po Panda @ Nov 4th 2009 7:19PM
I loaded it up on my Nokia 5730xm. It worked really good, but after a while it started to bog down a bit. Might be a memory management issue or maybe a mem leak on the browser's part? After all, it is a BETA version. It could very well be that I'm running the Contacts bar AND the Opera Widgets program along side the browser as well. I just uninstalled it because Opera Mini 4.2 is just fine for me for now.
And in case anyone is wondering, NO. I will not sell my 5730, it's totally worth it and when you run it without the contacts bar, it is very fast and has all the features you could ever want that the iPhone or any Android phone does not have. However, my next phone could very well be an Android phone, maybe by HTC or Sony. But I don't see that happening until Android matures a bit more (a year or two). Until then, Nokia 5730xm with FP2 for me :)