Opera Mobile 9.5 coming soon

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Commercial, Mobile Minute

Opera Mobile 9.5 coming soon - Video

by Brad Linder Feb 5th 2008

Opera Mobile 9.5
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Opera plans to show off its next generation mobile web browser at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. While Opera Mobile 9.5 won't be available commercially until this spring, the company has released a video previewing some of the browser's more exciting features.

Opera also has a tendency to release public betas of its mobile software several months in advance of a commercial release. So there's a good chance you'll be able to use Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for free for a while before buying it.

In a nutshell, Opera Mobile 9.5 appears to have many of the features that have made Opera Mini popular. But unlike the Java-based Opera Mini, Opera Mobile is designed to run on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones. Opera Mobile 9.5 allows users to view full screen versions of web pages, or to zoom in for more detail. You also get tabbed browsing, fast page rendering, and convenient bookmark, transfer, and history managers.

The browser will also include a mobile version of Opera's widget engine which allows you to access some web content like Flickr images without opening a web browser. It also packs Flash Lite 3 integration for accessing Flash-heavy web pages like MySpace or YouTube.

[via the::unwired]

Tags: mobile-browser, opera, opera-mini, opera-mobile, opera-mobile-9.5, tweet-this

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tamer said 11:49AM on 2-05-2008

I am glad to hear that opera is doing a lot like safari's tabbed and zoom in and out features.
Check out my review on http://blog.tamersabry.com/

LethalPhoenix said 3:40PM on 2-05-2008

watch out, the apple fanboys are coming.

michael said 10:43PM on 2-05-2008

I bet if the new IE mobile in WM7 had nice abilities like this, people would say it's copying.

Of course when any other company besides Microsoft does it, it's cool.

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