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Opera for Windows Mobile 5.0 Ships

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

January 18, 2006, 12:58 PM

Just in time for the Treo 700w and Cingular 2125, Opera Software has made available a beta version of Opera 8.5 for Windows based smartphones running Windows Mobile 2003 and the latest version 5.0. The Web browser supports all major Web standards, including CSS2, DOM 2 and JavaScript.

The Opera 8.5 beta works on all Pocket PC devices as well, and employs the company's rendering technology that dynamically reformats a Web page to fit the screen size. The mobile browser has begun shipping on the Sharp W-ZERO3 device in Japan, and is available for download now.

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By vegasman

edited Jan 19, 2006 - 12:38 PM

I downloaded the Beta for Opera Mini for WM5.0. It works real well on my PPC6700. I can even access my banks secure site and do transfers etc,things that I have not been able to do with PIE or other browsers. Looking forward to the full release. One thing that I cannot figure out or find is how to import favorites from PIE?
Can't find it in help either As an aside, I also installed it onto my Mini SD Card.
Thanks

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By ThaCHEESE

posted Jan 18, 2006 - 7:11 PM

the new beta won't install correctly for me :( no upgrade for me yet i guess.

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