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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta Released for WM Touchscreen Devices

Published July 18th, 2008 4:14 PM EDT By BAMAToNE

The first public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 has finally arrived. Some of the new features:

  • Speed tests show Opera Mobile 9.5 beta loads Web pages 2.5 times faster than Internet Explorer Mobile
  • Opera Mobile 9.5 defaults to full Web page viewing and allows users to pan and zoom into their desired content in just a few clicks
  • With a click, simply save your selected content and view it later offline
  • Multitask with tabbed browsing, view content in widescreen, and enjoy small-screen rendering
  • Browse with the full richness of AJAX
  • Save time with address auto-complete and Password Manager
  • Upload to Web sites such as online mail services or blogs

A more complete list of features can be found here.

Be warned, however, that this beta is for Windows Mobile / Pocket PC touchscreen devices only. Non-touchscreen Windows Mobile and Symbian users are out of luck. The Opera Mobile blog reports they are “planning to add compatibility for non-touchscreen phones in the future.” The Mobile team has already promised a Symbian version.

Keep in mind this is beta software: “This release is intended for developers and advanced users. It may cause data loss or other unintended actions.”

And be sure to check out the “Reviewer’s Guide to Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta,” which looks excellent!

Download Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta

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  1. 1 kL Jul 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.51 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Any chance for iPhone version? :)

    Seriously, Safari can be annoying sometimes – it has lousy caching (really really lousy: it reloads pages when you use Back button) and practically can’t open more than two pages at a time (if you open more “tabs”, then oldest pages will reload when you switch back to them or will go completely blank).

  2. 2 Yehudah Goldstein Jul 18th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
    using Safari Safari 525.22 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    The full page view is ****, even big headlines are unreadable, the entire page is pixelated, non-antialiased. The iPhone Spafari has much better full page view.

  3. 3 Adrian Jul 19th, 2008 at 5:27 am
    using Opera Opera 9.52 on Windows Windows XP

    @Yehudah Goldstein

    1. How do you know it is unreadable? Are you using a WM device? How is the screen resolution (VGA/QVGA…)? Processor speed? They will have a significant effect. (Or you don’t even have a WM device? So wtf are you talking about?)

    2. What’s the point of comparing with a beta product? Even so, I think the BETA Opera mobile still far better. (a simple example: iphone safari doesn’t even have text selection…that’s stupid!)

  4. 4 ak Jul 19th, 2008 at 8:13 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Windows Windows XP

    why oh why are they using those ugly *** icons

  5. 5 yesno Jul 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
    using Opera Opera 9.51 on Windows Windows XP

    @Yehudah Goldstein, have you seen this on all phones out there, or are you just assuming that this is the case everywhere because of your own phone?

    @ak, what icons?

  6. 6 Maxwell Jul 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.51

    To the team, well done guys.I have been waiting for this. 9.5 beta works well on my HTC TYTN II. The only problem is,it tells me that l have exceeded my tab limits. Can anyone explain.

  7. 7 BAMAToNE Jul 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
    using Opera Opera 9.52 on Windows Windows XP

    Maxwell: Take a look at this blog post and see if it helps: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2008/07/21/opera-mobile-9-5-how-to-increase-the-maximum-number-of-tabs

  8. 8 how do operamini 9.5 install to windows xp? Jul 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    operamini.com

  9. 9 An Old Faithfull Reader Aug 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.51 on Windows Windows XP

    I’m waiting for some more Hot News from Opera Watch. You blogers do a fantastic job under Editor in chief, Daniel Goldman . Thanks, keep on bloging!!!

  10. 10 qtjoasdf Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
    using Mozilla Mozilla 1.9.1a2pre on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Is operawatch dead?

  11. 11 An Old Faithfull Reader Aug 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.51 on Windows Windows XP

    Maybe Opera Watch is on vacation. You know it is the summer and every body needs vacation especially when you keep on bloging so often.

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