With Opera on your mobile device, you can surf the same Web sites as you do on your personal computer. The Opera mobile Web browser for Windows Mobile is designed with speed and ease-of-use in mind.
Opera 9.7 beta known issues
Browser
* 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.
Widget manager add-on
* The Widget manager is an add-on to the browser, so the browser must be installed in order for the widget manager to work.
* We recommend disabling Opera Turbo in the browser when using the widget manager.
* Rotating widgets does not work properly. Portrait mode should be used when running widgets.
* Widgets + Plugins (Flash & Gears) don't work.
* Clicking internal links in a widget will launch the browser.
* Twitter widget might have login problems on first run. If this happens, just close the Twitter widget (X) and open it again.
Requirements:
· Windows Mobile 2003/5/6
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Improved rendering engine:
· Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta uses the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which will also be used in the Opera 10 desktop browser. Presto 2.2 offers faster page loading, and we're excited to use this state-of-the-art rendering engine and be at the forefront of standards support with 100/100 on Acid 3.
Opera Turbo:
· Finally we can show you Opera Turbo on mobile! Opera Turbo accelerates the browsing experience by reducing bandwidth consumption up to 80%. Many of you will be familiar with Opera's compression technology from using Opera Mini, and with Opera Mobile 9.7 you'll get the best of both worlds - a full-fledged browser with extra Turbo capabilities. It's not the full version of Opera Turbo yet (yes, that's a Beta feature in a Beta release), but we couldn't wait to show you this cool feature.
Improved Widget Manager:
· Opera Widgets are small, handy Web applications that run locally on your mobile phone. Our new Widget Manager has improved usability and design, and runs independently from the browser.
Gears:
· Gears is a Google open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser. Read more about Gears on Opera Labs.
OpenGL ES:
· Hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES support, ensuring smoother scrolling, panning and a more fluid user interface.
Also, we've tried to iron out some of the major issues with the 9.51 Beta, among other things:
· Installation on storage card is now possible, and the Beta happily coexists with preinstalled versions of Opera Mobile.
· Better IME support (although a lot of non-standard 3rd party IME applications still make this a difficult task).
· Better performance and feedback when clicking links.
