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Opera Mobile 9.7 boasts many improvements, Flash support confirmed
According to a post on Webware this morning, the upcoming 9.7 version of Opera Mobile - their browser for handheld devices - will boast some exciting new features.Key among them will be the addition of the same Presto javascript engine that powers Opera 10 on the desktop, Opera Turbo to conserve bandwidth and boost speed on slower connections, Google Gears support, and out-of-browser widgets via a new manager application.
Opera's Ted Miller also confirmed to me that 9.7 will support Flash Lite. Dave McAllister, Adobe's director of standards and open source, commented that the "addition of Flash Lite to Opera brings the ubiquity of the Flash Platform to one of the best mobile browsers around."
It's an interesting development. When you look at this news along with the announcement that BSquare is working on Flash for Android handsets, iPhone users wind up out in the cold as pretty much the only group who will still lack mobile Flash support (even after iPhone OS3 debuts).
Opera will be demoing 9.7 at CTIA in Las Vegas next week. In the meantime, we've got screenshots for you to check out.
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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Duncan said 2:35PM on 3-26-2009
Original post by the Opera team is here:
http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2009/03/26/opera-mobile-9-7-beta-for-windows-mobile
Looking forward to this, will also support gears according to the opera team.
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mko said 2:37PM on 3-26-2009
It says Opera 'Mini' in title?
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Lee Mathews said 2:40PM on 3-26-2009
Thanks for catching that...Fixed!
Oskiee said 9:05AM on 3-27-2009
Any chance we'll see this kind of functionality for Android Phones? Right now we don't very good options for web browsing.
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