As per reports from my.opera.com the initial public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 will be relesed on July 15th. Now why is this news as there are various builds of the same application floating around ( the latest being 1184 ) , mainly because of what they said
You should also expect a few differences between the versions that are pre-installed on phones and the public version of Opera Mobile 9.5.
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What are the differences, well we dont know yet. They have cited the same reason for the delay in launching the application. As per the official blog its said that Opera 9.5 is coming to the Windows Mobile , so there might be a WM Professional and WM Standard as well.
Via : [ http://www.1800pocketpc.com ]
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ACCESS Co., developer of alternate Pocket PC Web browser NetFront, has just (they have already releaseed the final, Japanese version about three weeks ago) released the English version of the latest, 3.3 version.
The browser costs $29.80; if you have purchased version 3.2, you're entitled to a rebate. Then, you only end up having to pay $14.80. (Note that the shopping page of NetFront 3.3 refers to the 3.1-to-3.2 upgrade discount - it still hasn't been updated for the 3.2-to-3.3 upgrade discount). It's available here.
I, based on the Japanese version, have already published several bug reports and mini-reviews of the new browser (as the English version is not different from the Japanese one, there's no point in not checking out the reviews of the latter), all accessible in the Web Browsers category of the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Expert Blogs. Of them, I recommend this mini-review, this comparison to Opera Mobile, this and this bug reports. To shortly and succintly summarize these articles, I do recommend NetFront - but in no way as much as Opera Mobile, the, right now, best Pocket PC Web browser. I, particularly, do not recommend NetFront if you have a WM2003SE device, where the driver memory bug of NetFront makes the entire system really unstable.
A few days ago, i tested the most popular browsers with the acid3-browsertest by acid3.acidtests.org
Testing Environment: HTC Raphael (Touch Pro) - Energy ROM 3.0 20090612 Plain
The Scoring:
Code:
[B]Browser Version Website Score[/B]
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta 1 [URL="http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/"]Opera Mobile[/URL] 100/100
Iris Browser 1.1.8 [URL="http://www.torchmobile.com/"]torchmobile[/URL] 100/100
Mozilla Fennec 1.0 alpha 2 [URL="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/winmo/"]Mozilla Fennec[/URL] 92/100
Opera Mobile 9.5 [URL="http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/"]Opera Mobile[/URL] 59/100
Skyfire 1.0.0.11783 [URL="http://www.skyfire.com/"]Skyfire[/URL] 52/100
Boltbrowser 1.04 [URL="http://www.boltbrowser.com/"]Boltbrowser[/URL] 48/100
Opera Mini 4.2 [URL="http://www.opera.com/mini/download/"]Opera Mini[/URL] 44/100
Mach5 Web 1.1.38.13 [URL="http://www.netacceler.com/"]NetAcceler[/URL] 12/100
NetFront 3.5 [URL="http://www.access-company.com/products/mobile_solutions/netfrontmobile/browser/35_wm_tp.html"]Netfront[/URL] 11/100
MS Internet Explorer 6 5/100
UC Browser 6.3 [URL="http://www.ucweb.com/English/index.shtml"]UC Web[/URL] 4/100
Screenshots of the test and more information here
(sorry, my blog is in german language)
Thanks a lot
I was wondering about the results of Opera 9.7
orb3000 said:
I was wondering about the results of Opera 9.7
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FYI: Opera 9.7 beta - Turbo DISabled!
The new, 1.5 version of Java-based Web browser BOLT has just been released.
Opera Mini forum user / Serola has published an extensive, great comparison between it, Opera Mini 4.2 and UCWEB 6.3 HERE.
I’ll also give it a more thorough ride (and compare it to the alternatives) as soon as a new, much more stable version of Opera Mini 5 beta is released. In the meantime, if you have further questions or need more information on how BOLT should be installed, check out my latest, dedicated article, which also sports a huge comparison chart of BOLT 0.94, Teashark beta 0.9 build 419, UCWEB 6.3 and Opera Mini 4.2.
Is Opera 5 Mini (ARM/Windows Mobile Native) final also? When I saw the announcement, I went to download and I got the beta again.
It seems only the Java based one is final.
not yet....
Hi,
does anyone know when will be released new version 2.0 of Skyfire for Windows mobile ? I don't know why they didn't release new version also for Windows mobile or Symbian . I miss in version 1.5, TABS, touch FLASH PLAYER for playing video and faster page rendering [ faster rendering of "gray squares" ] and all this things have version for Android .
Thanks.
I need a wm version too. I've seen the video demonstration on an android device -> waaaouuuu
any date for the wm version ?
I just wanted a browser with flash support for use on my HTC S710 WM 6 S. ..
as far as i'm aware, they stopped development for winmo right now. they were supposed to have skyfire for blackberry a year ago and they stopped the development for that too. all focus is on android atm
android = teh sux lol.. but if you think about it winphone7's are coming out soon-ish. so why dev for 6.5 when its going to be outdated sooner rather than later. im kind of worried that windowsphone7 doesnt have any backwards compatability with 6.5 but then again it might not matter.
R.I.P.
Support for WM (and Nokia) pulled without (much) notice. Skyfire for Windows Mobile is dead. Only currently-supported platforms are iOS and Android. Some quote I found from Googling says they couldn't figure out a way to successfully monetize the WM user base so we're cut out. Bastards.