Opera Mobile 10 features tabbed browsing, disses WinMo
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Nov 4th 2009 2:37PM
posted Nov 4th 2009 2:37PM
Symbian freaks, do we have a treat for you! While all your WinMo-lovin' friends are out there with Opera Mobile 9.5 (or possibly 9.7), a beta of version 10 has just been announced exclusively for Nokia / Symbian smartphones. As well as being as speedy as ever (fifty percent faster than previous Symbian versions, or so it's been claimed), this release features a new-and-improved user interface and a "speed dial" page that displays all your fave sites as icons. Not too shabby, eh? Hit the read link to get the thing for your Symbian/S60 phone -- but not before peeping the video after the break.
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Opera Mobile 10 beta brings powerful features to world's most-used smartphone platform
Oslo, Norway - November 3, 2009
Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. Most notable in the new Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta. The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available for free from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/.
Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology.
"Today's powerful smartphones deserve an equally powerful browser, like Opera," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "This beta continues our work to extend the desktop Web experience to mobile phones, allowing users to surf the Web without limitations, even while on-the-go. No matter the device in use, Opera delivers a faster, easier and hassle-free Web experience."
Fresh design
Alongside the new Opera Mini 5, Opera has revamped the look and feel of its mobile-browser portfolio to ensure that it is simple and intuitive, making mobile Web browsing easier than ever.
Desktop favorites on the mobile phone
Opera desktop feature favorites, including tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a Web site.
Advanced compatibility
Opera Mobile 10 beta uses the very latest generation of the Opera browser engine, ensuring that all your favorite Web sites and applications work exactly the way they do on a desktop computer.
Availability
Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/mobile/.
Oslo, Norway - November 3, 2009
Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. Most notable in the new Opera Mobile 10 beta is a sleek design, which Opera first introduced to the world in the recent release of Opera Mini 5 beta. The crisp, new look introduces the Speed Dial, tabbed browsing and the always convenient password manager to Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile 10 beta is optimized for both touchscreen and keypad-style navigation and is available for free from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/.
Performance was prioritized in this beta. It is twice as fast as the previous Opera Mobile released for Symbian/S60, and users will discover significant speed improvement when downloading pages, zooming and panning. Opera Turbo is also integrated, saving end users both time and money with its server-side compression technology.
"Today's powerful smartphones deserve an equally powerful browser, like Opera," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "This beta continues our work to extend the desktop Web experience to mobile phones, allowing users to surf the Web without limitations, even while on-the-go. No matter the device in use, Opera delivers a faster, easier and hassle-free Web experience."
Fresh design
Alongside the new Opera Mini 5, Opera has revamped the look and feel of its mobile-browser portfolio to ensure that it is simple and intuitive, making mobile Web browsing easier than ever.
Desktop favorites on the mobile phone
Opera desktop feature favorites, including tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a Web site.
Advanced compatibility
Opera Mobile 10 beta uses the very latest generation of the Opera browser engine, ensuring that all your favorite Web sites and applications work exactly the way they do on a desktop computer.
Availability
Opera Mobile 10 beta is available for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones running Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th editions. The beta is free to download to your computer from http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ or directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/mobile/.
Finally!
Nokia is the best especially N900!;)
Exactly, next to iPhone's Safari, this is the best, user friendly browser. Why M$ continues to make the world's worst non-compliant piece of cr@p IE browser is beyond belief.
I.E. creates tons of headaches and stiffs users of progress without their knowledge of it. So sad.
Thank you Opera, for bringing progress back into style!
Good for symbian users.
I am surprised Engadget was 2 days late in reporting this news. Generally they are quite fast.
Yeah, Symbian gets to crow at WinMo now !
Wait WHAT !? A "Finally" comment instead of first?? I'm disappointed in you. You are not a true Engadgeteer ! ~_~
@ Anthony
Actually its a video and it's a girl
Yes! And it is lovely. Puts the browser on my 5800 to shame. (it even puts the opera mini I was using on it to shame!)
Duda: Yes, I'm guessing this will make browsing on the 5800 a very pleasant experience. I'm afraid the final version won't be free, tho. I hope to be proven wrong...
Disses WinMo?
Like Opera isnt going to make it available for it eventually anyway.
Now where can we get version for the iPhone? Oh yeah...
Don't worry its just another Engadget digg at WinMo. They must have gotten direction from someone (Josh) to hate on it. Who owns Engadget anyways? Do you guys get paid from advertising or do the tech companies pay you directly? Did Microsoft not renew their ads with you or something?
@Ardentra, don't bring Josh into it, he actually stays pretty non-biased (even though he is). The writers appear to have a pretty open range in their articles here, so direct it at the one that wrote it (plus it's based on ad views so a little controversy is needed).
Ardentra - AOL owns this 'tech blog', talk about a joke. AOL for crying out loud - the guys who run a dialup network that is pure sh8. This type of 'journalism' can be expected from AOL flunkies. tech blog, bahahahahahah AOL tech blog - biggest joke ever
It's a joke people, easy now.
Doesn't diss Android or WebOS or the iPhone at all.
In fact if you open up Opera Mobile 10 on your Nokla smartphone and go to about:opera, you see this:
"Winm0 sux lol"
See? Engadget is not biased at all!
@ardentra
Have you already forgotten the massive hyping Engadget has been doing for the HTC HD2?! You guys sound like a broken record every time Engadget has anything negative to say about a company that isn't Apple, then feign surprise when they write something negative about the fruit. Just like how the next time Engadget criticizes a Symbian device, the Symbian freaks will have suddenly forgotten about this article and state that Engadget gets paid off to write bad things about it.
Can anyone tell me if this version supports HTML5 and specifically Geolocation? Having trouble finding any documentation on this....
Does it support HTML5 Geolocation??? Safari for iPhone and Android do...
give me a link to a website that uses it and i'll try.
i doubt it works though
tried with http://maxheapsize.com/static/html5geolocationdemo.html and it indeed does not work.
Doesnt work here either:
http://merged.ca/iphone/html5-geolocation
On a verizon device - ive confirmed this demo on Safari (iPhone)
What carrier are you on?
IIRC, Opera Mobile implements Geolocation (since version 9.5) not by means of the HTML5, but the Google Gears API. See http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/02/20/
Opera Mobile version 8 did tabbed browsing also. Nothing new here.
WRONG !
Tab browsing was invented (or at least patented and made culturally acceptable) by Steve Jobs for Safari8.4... oh wait
lol
HAHA!
Hmm, I'm gonna have to check this out on my E71. I'm happy with 9.7b1 though on WM.
I downloaded it. It's nice but needs a bit of work - it won't recognise Engadget as a full site by default even with 'Mobile Site' switched off.
Ehrm...
If engadget.com shows you mobile site then it's engadget's fault. A browser doesn't have (in practice anyways) any means to decide whether it shows a "full site" or "mobile site". It's the server who decides which page to serve (probably by looking at the user-agent the browser sends)...
Aha.
Get it sorted, Engadget.
Or maybe I need to fiddle with my 5800's settings.
Hmm...
Unfortunately not working with my UIQ2.1-based Motorola A1000
Uhm...
I have tabbed browsing on Opera 9.5...
Yeah, it seems the peeps at Engadget aren't really familiar with too many mobile browsers.
You mean any mobile browsers that don't start with "s" and end with "afari" ?
Chrome Mobile Browser is the ish.
Wasnt it called Opera 5?
Opera Mobile 10 beta != Opera Mini 5 beta
ah I just figured out.. Opera mobile 10 is an enhanced version for touch phones with better performance but the same user interface as opera mobile 5
Opera Mini has its pages rendered by Opera proxy servers and sent to your device.
Opera Mobile is a full web rendering engine with no intermediary unless the user turns on Turbo mode (don't know if that is in the version 10 beta).
So no, they're NOT the same thing.
Opera Mini is not the same product as Opera Mobile! And Opera Mobile is not just for touch devices.
Opera Mini is using proxy servers to fetch site and send it in binary format to your mobile. Opera Mobile is normal browser and fetches the pages directly to your phone i.e. it is capable of doing Javascript / Plugins / etc. Mini is also capable of doing some amount of Javascript but not that much as it is not a "real" browser.
Opera Mobile is not free product either like Opera Mini.
Turbo mode is included in the Opera Mobile 10 beta, yes.
It is confusing how Mini 5 and Mobile 10 looks so alike. Part of it was really the amazing job they did on Mini despite its Java roots.
Looks like mobile safari with top sites added
Except that Opera Mobile has also features like Opera Turbo (like Opera Mini), Opera Link (syncs bookmarks, speed dial, etc. between your devices), etc.
I was referring to the interface and screenshot
No. Mobile Safari's "Top Sites" look like Opera's "Speed Dial", since Opera was the first to introduce that feature. (Amongst many other features, which were copied by other browsers.)
@Toreil:
haha, thanks for pointing that out. I love that fanboys think that Apple invented the smartphone, touchscreens, music on a phone, etc etc etc etc.....
Just to correct myself, I saw now that Mobile Safari actually doesn't have Speed dial...err.. "top sites". So, that would apply to the regular Safari.
@Jan Bit quick there aren't you? When did I say that apple invented anything along those lines? And if you actually take a step back and look at it subjectively the inclusion of the google search bar is identical to its implication in mobile safari. So before you start calling me a fanboy get your fact straight.
"the inclusion of the google search bar is identical to its implication in mobile safari"
Or rather, the search bar in Safari is identical to the one in Opera. Opera introduced the search bar, remember.
She's one hell of ventriloquist
I already got it yesterday for my Omnia HD and it's great, definitely a lot better than Opera mini, it is also faster and scrolls better than the default browser.
In my opinion, in Symbian, Skyfire is the best browser of all. It loads REALLY quickly, loads pages fully (not saying Opera Mobile doesn't, but Skyfire does it a bit more quickly).
Overall, Opera Mobile 10 seems really solid. I love the interface, it looks very sleek. My main gripe with Opera Mobile is that it uses it's own system when typing, meaning you can't use predictive text to type. That's disappointing. Also, if you press the pencil button on your phone to open up a list of special characters, it doesn't function like that in Opera Mobile. I wish they would've left it alone.
Yo mama disses WinMo. STOP IT ENGADGET, JUST STOP IT
on my n95 8gb, its the only browser that doesn't actually hurt to use
This + HD2 = goodness
Too bad its exclusively for Nokia / Symbian smartphones. Would have loved to see this in a firmware update on the A5. But that's really day dreaming with Archos. Oh well.
what? that tab implementation is horrible. you can't see what the other tabs have
I'm using it. You can.
Next.
The tabs on Opera mobile 10 work fine, I am using it on a SE Satio and it runs really smooth, thumnails are visible and not a problem for me
omg, do you see those nails??
OMG A WOMAN HOLDING A SMARTPHONE? UNPOSSIBLE!!111one
It looks like a cheap knock-off of the iPhone web browser that debuted almost three years ago. It's sad how far behind some companies are.
Except Opera actually is fluent, fast and easy to use.
Use it and you'll see.
I agree. Some phones still do not have
1. Flash (Camera or browser)
2. Real Multitasking
3. Decent Camera above 5MP
blah
blah
blah
Kettle, Pot, Black.
"It looks like a cheap knock-off of the iPhone web browser that debuted almost three years ago. It's sad how far behind some companies are."
That's quite interesting, considering the fact that the iPhone browser ripped off the pan and zoom interface from Opera.
Also, this browser looks nothing like the iPhone browser. But hey, keep fanboying away!
wasnt really to impressed with the opera of my Touch pro it was laggy unresponsive at times and slows down my phone and sucking battery life faster than other programs. Internet Explorer FTW (only for my phone lol though)
Opera Mini 5 also features tabbed browsing, and much more besides.
I tried both on my phone and the GUI is practically the same, although Opera Mobile is a bit more polished.
But the performance is a lot better than Opera Mini.
Hopefully an Android version will come along soon as well. What Opera currently have for that platform isn't up there.
Keep it up Opera!
Installed in on my Nokia 5800 and it works flawlessly. The virtual keyboard is actually quite accurate but I wish they would implement heptics on it like in the normal mode. Could be abit more responsive when typing but overall it's a great browser.
This is old hat. Rockin' this opera on my i910 right now. What's new?
I downgrade myself since I actually have Opera Mini 5 beta on my i910, not 10.
After Initial testing on my part i conclude it rocks. Havent seen the opera link setting anywhere. Is it hidden in "opera:config"?
Omnia HD and Opera Mobile 10 FTW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOKLhNNc6v8
Test...
Test. This seems to suck, as it doesn't send me a password.
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