RSSComing soon: Opera Mobile 9.7
By Tim Conneally | Published March 26, 2009, 1:52 PM
Today, Norwegian browser company Opera announced that Opera Mobile 9.7 will be premiering next week at CTIA Wireless. The cross-platform mobile browser will offer better standards support, and combine the Presto 2.2 rendering engine found in the Opera 10 desktop browser with a new server-side optimization technique the company calls Opera Turbo.
Opera Turbo compresses and accelerates full Web pages for improved browsing over limited-bandwidth connections. The technology opened in limited public testing just under two weeks ago, and can be applied to Opera's native browser products.
Because Turbo uses a technology called "Opera Web Optimization Proxy," which is different from the Opera Binary Markup Language used in Opera Mini, the acceleration technology will not available on Mini, which now has a userbase of 20.5 million. Opera says that Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo compresses data as much as 80%, and offloads page rendering enough to show marked speed improvements and performance even on devices with few resources to spare.
Most people agree Opera Mobile the best browser for WM by far and I really hope they release it for Android soon!
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|And will it be just for the worst mobile platform available (WM)?
Opera did not release even v9.5 for Symbian, that really sucks.
If it is about user base, Symbian has a larger base, if it is about quality no doubts, Symbian works MUCH better. I see no reasons for Opera to develop just for Windows Mobile. I know about iphone license limitations, but why not Symbian, please let me know...
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|Are you sure there will be no Symbian Release?
http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/
so far I see on Opera"s FTP Server, there is a Symbian, also a 9.5 beta for Symbian.
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|Well, it seems there is a beta por UIQ, but that is not what I need. UIQ is a branch of symbian which support touching user interface. A really small part of users actually have a uiq phone.
Unfortunately, latest version for Symbian 9.xx is 8.65.
Anyway, thank you for the info
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|not a big fan of opera in general, but their mobile browser is really cool on Windows Mobile.
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