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Opera 9.5 beta for mobile

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Do you have a Win­dows Mobile device and are jeal­ous of the Safari Browser on the iPhone? But can not or do not want to get an iPhone, well the latest Opera browser for Win­dows Mobile 5 or 6 is for you.

It has touch scrolling, zoom by double tap­ping and great ren­der­ing of most sites. Sure it is a beta, a little clunky and appears to have memory issues on my 18 month old Dopod 838pro. But it way more advanced than IE for WM6 or even the cur­rent ver­sion of Opera Mobile, it is the best browser for WM6.

The biggest change is the inter­face, it is very iPhone like and it is prob­ably the first on many applic­a­tions for WM influ­enced by the iPhone. With some of the more advanced WM phones avail­able from the like of HTC and Sam­sung, also influ­enced by the iPhone. The future for WM mobiles is look­ing good and very iPhone like.

So if you like advanced fea­tures like video cap­ture, video call­ing, FM radio, ste­reo bluetooth and a wide range of applic­a­tions, it looks WM mobiles may be an altern­at­ive to the iPhone in the future. I just want it now.

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One Response to “Opera 9.5 beta for mobile”

  1. RE Mogul Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Opera is finally draw­ing another line in the sand.

    As of cur­rent, there is no more cap­able browser (cli­ent side) for win­dows mobile. I’ve had the “new” Opera since I got my hands-on a por­ted release from an over­seas HTC phone. Its refresh­ing to see HTC kick­start Win­dows Mobile into the iGeneration.

    WM6 badly needs some qual­ity octane, and it may be get­ting it soon. Word is Win­dows Mobile will see a full (read mod­ern Flash-Capable) browser by the end of this year (from Microsoft), and a made-over, touch-based Win­dows Mobile OS by mid 2009.

    WM Smart­phone types have waited longer for the iRipple to wash over the com­munity than just about any­body else, but when it hits it will be big.

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