Some days back when I posted about the skyfire browser , it sounded really thrilling thinking about the browsing experience the mobile users are gonna get, once its released. Skyfire limited its beta testing to US guys, but opera went a step ahead deciding not to release any beta version as of now.
Opera mobile will give 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 like facebook 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
And opera 9.5 will add
- Intuitive user interface
- Tabbed browsing
- Improved text wrap
- Page overview, zooming and panning
- Landscape mode
- Save Web page for future offline access
- Call phone number from Web page
- Send link as SMS/MMS
- Send image as SMS/MMS
- Small Screen Rendering
- Password manager
- Web-address input auto-completion
- History and bookmarks
- Copy text
- Opera Widgets
I think I really under estimated Opera. Tabbed browsing in mobiles was something which I was really looking forward and was wondering whether it will be possible on a small mobile screen Opera, has made it possible and the last thing I would wish is that they release the browser either for free or at the nominal price. Have a look at the video below :
via : opera , intomobile
Opera answered all our questions and was in time. Kanak, I agree we underestimated Opera. But they really proved it. I am still waiting for the Opera Mini to come with these features.
hmm so the mobile browser space is getting hotter now…opera is always dominating it until now…what are the big boys doing?
in mobile space and specifically into browsers, the big boy here is Opera till date. Other usual big boys are still at sleep.
The new features are cool, but I guess this is not a free version.
I certainly would love to have it for free, however with all these cool features, I’d rather agree with nirmal as well. Opera have really outdone themselves!
@smackall ,
seems like guys over mozilla are also working out something, let c what lies there.
@techbliss
opera rocks
@nirmal , yeah i dont think it will be a free version. They are going to announce it in mobile world conference.
@vijay
Very true .. anyways cracks are there for us to rejoice… I hope some cracked version will be good for us.
@Kanak
Yes, mozilla is also working on mobile browser for very long time. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
@smackall , hey great news out there. Wish they released it for symbian also , I can already see tabbed browsing in Mozilla minimo.
when i see a public beta ill bite ,, until then skyfire PWNS opera 8.5 mobile/ and opera mini .
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