Opera Mobile 10 Beta now available for Windows Mobile

November 18, 2009 | By Surur

In a move that was faster than we expected, Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile is now available for download.

Opera Mobile 10 brings many innovations from Opera Mini 5 to the Mobile version, such as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, password manager and Opera Turbo mode.

Said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software:

"We standardize our products so that our users use it regardless of platform or browser version in the usual way by them," "With Opera Mobile 10, we increase the expectations for the performance of mobile browsers. Today, users expect that a browser is as efficient as the Web, they expect that it does its daily work as reliably as their PCs – does exactly the Opera. "

The new version also includes the new Presto rendering engine that ensures that Web pages are displayed exactly as on the PC.

The download is available from Opera here or use our Microsoft tag (gettag.mobi).

Via AreaMobile.de

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

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Jos Dewey

9.7 Beta also had the turbo mode, but it wouldn't let you download anything so I had to constantly turn it on and off.

What's the deal anyway? Did 9.7 ever leave beta?

http://intensedebate.com/people/Foamy Foamy

I don't think it did. probably because they wanted to get the version numbers the same as the desktop version.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5401995 Christopher Hippolyte

Over since Opera 9, the only final versions have been those purchased by oems.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mohsen7x8 mighty

Is there any chance this could be hacked to support multi-touch on HD2 ?

http://intensedebate.com/people/Foamy Foamy

I wouldn't be surprised if it already did. i don't have a HD2 yet though so i can't test it.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mohsen7x8 mighty

Brandon from pocketnow has tested it on HD2 and sadly there's no pinch to zoom. Hope it can be fixed by devs!

http://intensedebate.com/people/Strangerx Strangerx

I think there was a special registry entry for Opera to enable multitouch-zooming, maybe you could just use that for the newer version…

http://intensedebate.com/people/Noonski Noonski

From the one minute I had it on my device I already like it a lot.
Like the Visual Tabs.

Although the 9.5 version worked fine with Flash, this one looks to be Disabled by Default
netboy

why do they have to remove the "clock"! i surf internet on my break or lunch break! i know to know the time so i wont go over my break or lunch break!
Craig S

It's nice but…

Can anyone tell me how to get it to zoom on double tap and do text reflow like the older versions? None of these pages are fitting properly on my screen and double-tapping does nothing

Craig S

OK, I realize that single tap works on big desktop-sized sites, but not on pages like touch.facebook.com or any iphone optimized pages. The scroll wheel on the Fuze also does nothing at all
jodeltje

+1 I would really like to know this too
http://intensedebate.com/people/l3v5y l3v5y

Text reflowing is probably an HTC thing, rather than an Opera thing…

http://intensedebate.com/people/Foamy Foamy

do you know if it will be enabled on HTC devices later? or will HTC need to release a special version of opera? it would suck to have to wait for the full version to be done and then to hope HTC release an update.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

text reflow is an opera thing

David

Opera Mobile 10 loads fine on my Omnia i910. However, the first site I visited http://www.foxnews.com never fully loaded so I went to task manager and exited from Opera. Then when I tried to restart it acted like it was restarting but never did. The task manager did not show it running. My Omnia was running very slow so I soft reset.

Went through the same process with the same results. – Another soft reset.

This time after Opera loaded I chose the tab they have as a default Wikipedia. This loaded but took some time to do so. I then tried again to open foxnews.com and it never finished loading. Opera became unresponsive…no taps were being processed. I again went to the task manager and exited Opera. Then restarted – same problem as the first time. Acted like it restarted but never showed up in task manager. System very slow again so another soft reset.

OK – I'm finished – Back to SkyFire.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

can somenone confirm that it doesn't load foxnews?

I miss my winmo phone right now…..my phone broke and I haven't gotten a new one yet, I'm waiting on the HD2 to come to the states, but I'm getting real restless…..

David

OK – I read in another post that Turbo mode might cause problems, so I made sure it was turned off. Another start of Opera. This time I first selected the other two tabs that are standard. My Opera and BBC. Both of these sites loaded fine and I could move around. One thing I am not so crazy about is that a double tap will only work once and zoom to a pre-set zoom you select in Settings. I prefer the method of SkyFire where you get successive zooms.

Ok – so now time to load foxnews. It has been 15 minutes and the blue bar is about 2/3 of the way across and the wheel is still turning. There must be something on the foxnews site that Opera does not like.

Scrolling around the My Opera and BBC site was smooth with no problems.

Next loaded this site WMPowerUsers.com. It took a good 1.5 minutes or more but finally loaded.

I noticed that switching between portrait and landscape is also very slow.

OK – I will not unload it…and will do more testing.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

have you reported these to the opera mobile team?

David

No – but plan to do so after more testing that in fact it continues to hang.

karl

I don't like FoxNews either – I prefer my news without a right wing bias

NuShrike

Waiting for it to not suck compared to Opera Mini 5 … seriously.
Raymart

Hey guys, Can you help me? I was surfing the net yesterday then I accidentally turned off my phone. Then, when i turned it on again to browse in the internet again. Something showed up, Cannot connect to the internet for an unknown reason. Check your settings blablabla. What should i do? Should i soft reset it? And can you please tell me how to do soft reset? Please help me on this matter.