Opera mobile 9.5 has been a very good windows mobile browser and my all time favourite. It is still my best browser for my PDA phone. Here comes 9.7beta. It improves on a new feature called Turbo and widgets. What is turbo? For those who have used opera mini before, you will know how fast it's loading of pages would be. Using Blazing fast is not exaggerating. It simply sends the data to a dedicated server before crunching it to a smaller bits and loading it super fast in your phone. Now, this feature comes to opera 9.7.
As for Widgets? Need I explain more? Words say a thousand words. Take a look and I think you will love it. Ain't it cute?
But before you jump into it, it is best to know the problems with this beta.
- Opera Turbo in Opera Mobile is still a preview-feature;
- Downloads don't work while Opera Turbo is enabled.
- Some settings (such as toggle on/off images) do not apply when Opera Turbo is enabled.
- On older WM 5.0 Devices with 480x800 resolution, switching between portrait and landscape may cause display errors. This is due to lack of support for this resolution in early versions of Microsoft's driver.
- Some input method editors are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft's SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QUERTY, ABC mode doesn't work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.
- Only support for FlashLite 3.x. No Flash plugin included.