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Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 emerge from beta
Opera's latest mobile browsers are all grown up and ready to leave beta! Opera Mini 5 is good to go on your BlackBerry or other Java-ready phone, and Opera Mobile 10 is out for Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. Opera Mini for Android and WinMo are still in beta, and there's no sign of that rumored Opera Mini for iPhone yet. However, these latest stable versions of Opera's pocket-sized browser represent a nice jump forward from their predecessors, Opera Mini 4.2 and Opera Mobile 9.6.If you've been playing with the beta versions of these browsers, there won't be many surprises for you in terms of features. Opera Link, the bookmark syncing feature, has been re-introduced, and there are some noticeable performance and UI tweaks in Opera Mobile. If you're upgrading from Mini 4.2 to Mini 5, though, prepare to be blown away. Mini 5 is a lot faster, and it introduces tabs, a password manager, and Opera's famous Speed Dial homepage.
[via CNET]
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Subscribe to commentsmichas_piMar 16th 2010 10:24PM
I upgraded from the beta versions of both browsers on my Nokia E63 today.
Both browsers are simply amazing. SOOPAH fast and fluid. Also, both are free. One once had to pay for Opera Mobile.
Crazy, mad props to Opera.
One bug that they haven't fixed yet in Opera Mini: To use the Char key in a text field, you have to switch to fullscreen edit. This is annoying when entering passwords with non-alphanumeric characters. This bug does not exist in Opera Mobile.
pawitpMar 17th 2010 6:38AM
That's likely unfixable as J2ME does not support in-place edit and it had to be hacked in.
David LevineMar 17th 2010 2:21PM
I downloaded Opera Mobile 5 for my BlackBerry Bold 9000 and it was pretty slow when I moved the cursor around the screen. It was jump and was not smooth at all. That might seem petty, but it is unacceptable to me.
James SandersMar 20th 2010 8:35PM
Probably a Java thing IMHO Java sucks for performance and SHOULD NOT EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USED TO PROGRAM MOBILE PROGRAMS, it is too slow and every CPU cycle matters. IMHO Opera stop wasting time on Java it robs you of precious CPU cycles on these platforms and is overall not as good as any C BASED LANGUAGE , yes that includes Objective C