opera mobile 9.5

Opera Mobile 9.5 delayed! Noooo!

July 14, 2008 | By Surur

Ok, its only two days, but I have been queuing outside the Opera headquarters in Oslo, and now I will have to stay in line for another two days! The browser, which was set to be released tomorrow, will now only come out on the 17 July. Is this karmic revenge for our post about the Opera Mobile delay for Symbian?

Frode Hauge, product manager for Opera Mobile, has announced that they have run into the need for some additional bug squashing, and they are doing some further quality assurance before releasing the best mobile browser in the world to the public.

Read his full blog entry here.

Via theunwired.net.

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No Opera Mobile 9.5 for Symbian anytime soon

July 12, 2008 | By Surur

Opera Mobile 9.5 is well recognized as the best mobile browser in the world. Opera, who has been developing the software for the last year, has been working on both a Windows Mobile and Symbian version. A Symbian version has even been demonstrated at the 3GSM world conference earlier this year.

A few weeks ago however Opera announced they will soon be releasing a beta for Windows Mobile on the 15 July. Symbian users were immediately up in arms due to the omission of any mention of a Symbian release. On the 7 July however Opera clarified that in fact the Symbian release has indeed been delayed.

“We will offer a Symbian version of Opera Mobile, but you will have to wait a while. We do not yet know when the Symbian version will be ready because development and quality assurance on mobile devices is time consuming. In the meantime Opera Mini is a great alternative for Symbian users.” posted product manager Frode Hauge on his My Opera blog.

His explanation was that quality assurance on the diversity of the fragmented Symbian world would take some time, and that this would delay the release. Others have however postulated that the scarecity of touch-based Symbian phones, especially with the issues Sony Ericsson’s UIQ was having, meant that Windows Mobile Professional was a natural fit for Opera’s touch-optimized browser.

It has also been suggested that despite Symbian having a marketshare 5 times bigger than Windows Mobile, that with Symbian dominated by Nokia with its own passable Webkit based browser, Windows Mobile with its anemic Pocket IE was a much greener pasture than it may at first appear. Certainly high profile devices such as the HTC Touch Diamond and Samsung Omnia benefit greatly from the inclusion of the browser.

In the end, no matter what the reason, its clear in this case Windows Mobile users are the winners, and Symbian users, not.

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Opera Mobile 9.5 – getting more tabs

June 27, 2008 | By Surur

So you are using the best, most standard compliant and most useful mobile web browser around, and you are laughing at your iPhone totting friends who cant even open up links in a new tab, but are secretly envious of their ability to have 7 tabs open, while you only have 3? No need to be envious anymore!

A simple hack will give you as many tabs as you want (within reason of course )

See more after the break

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