Opera Mobile 9.5 Preview
Opera, the creators behind the widely used Opera Mini / Mobile browsers for mobile handsets, which brings full web pages optimized to handsets has put up a video demonstrating their latest Mobile Browser which as been updated to 9.5. Where Opera Mini is widely available for handsets supporting Java, Opera Mobile is mainly aimed at the Smartphones, Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets only.
The video of Opera Mobile 9.5 demonstrates mainly the speed of the browser, comparing it to the Internet Explorer browser found on Windows Smartphones, it claims to be 2.5x faster, and watching the video clip it’s evident it is pretty fast. The reason for this, Opera point out the Presto layout engine which claims to achieve near desktop like page loads, obviously that’s dependant on your internet connection speeds? What’s more interesting is the support for JavaScript and AJAX commonly used by Gmail which Opera Mobile 9.5 handles easier with faster loading times. That I do like.
Opera Mobile gives you:
- A true Web experience optimized for mobile phones
- The ability to offer Web applications right on the idle screen
- The full richness of Web 2.0 services using AJAX
- Blazing speed with Opera’s Presto rendering engine
- Accelerated time to market with Opera Widgets
- A proven product with focus on innovation, quality and user experience
Initial public unveiling is expected on February 11th at GSMA, expect a public Beta version to be available soon after that.
A full Product Data Sheet can be found on here.
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