• Opera Mobile 10 Beta: First Look

    Opera Mobile 10 Beta: First Look

    Rahul Srinivas, Nov 04, 2009 1122 hrs IST

    For Symbian S60 Phones

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Opera has taken covers off the latest edition of its Mobile Browser for Symbian smart phones, Opera Mobile 10 Beta. The launch of Opera Mobile 10 Beta comes a few months after the announcement of the visually similar Opera Mini 5.

We took the browser for a quick spin around the world wide web -- and boy! Has it left us impressed! Opera Mobile 10 takes a quantum leap over its predecessors -- initially visually with a very slick UI and smooth scrolling and later with the overall way it behaves. Once you start using the browser, it dawns upon you that the changes are much more than cosmetic.

New Look

The User Interface of Opera Mobile 10 draws heavily from that of Opera Mini 5. From what it seems, looks like Opera will now offer a "unified look" for its browsers across various platforms. Once you install Opera Mobile 10 (The sis file is just over 4 MB in size), you're greeted by the now familiar homepage with nine speed dial options. As mentioned earlier, this page (and the rest of the browser) looks exactly similar to Opera Mini 5. The speed dial links are editable and you can choose what sites you want there for quick access. Opera Mobile supports inline editing and packs a very usable QWERTY keyboard for touch screen devices. For devices with accelerometers, the QWERTY keyboard adapts quite neatly in both portrait and landscape modes. 











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Manu
,Mangalore, on Nov 14, 2009 01:16 PM
Nice review.. Can you confirm whether the final release will be free or is it only the beta version which is free....?
hjj
,llh, on Nov 08, 2009 10:14 PM
Hii
ashrey
,gurgaon, on Nov 04, 2009 08:45 PM
hi i found some bug in this beta version 1. u cant edit speed dial once assigned 2. u can enter text in forms or url or anywhere in T9(dictionary)
magdalenas
,Oslo, on Nov 05, 2009 03:54 PM
you can edit speeddial. To do so, you need to longpress on speeddial entry, then you'll get the menu with options (Edit and Clear)
Vasily
,Russia, on Nov 04, 2009 04:26 PM
On my Nokia E71 Opera Mobile 10 beta got full 100/100 on ACID3...
Andrei
,Rostov, on Nov 05, 2009 09:06 AM
Nyet nyet, eto konechno ne pravda
neeraj
,gwalior, on Nov 04, 2009 05:55 PM
we are satisfied about ur bindass bol .
Avinash
,Bangalore, on Nov 04, 2009 12:58 PM
Accepted. Opera mobile 10 is great. What have you talked about? Just a few screen shots.... and you call it a review. Explain the undercover difference between the Opera mini 5 and this piece. What's this Opera turbo? TECHtree don't stay LAYMANtree.
Rahul Srinivas
,Mumbai, on Nov 04, 2009 01:24 PM
I think Opera Turbo has been fairy covered in this review. And make no mistake about this, this IS a layman oriented review because it is meant to be. Not everyone is technologically well endowed :-) so, we always keep it simple unless its targeted at an audience that understands hardcore geeky stuff.. like GPU's motherboards and stuff? Thanks for writing in.
binoy xavier
,kochi, on Nov 04, 2009 01:04 PM
Hey thanks for this awesome review Rahul! Enjoyed.

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