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The Opera Mobile 9.5 public beta version will finally be available on July 15. This was announced recently by Opera after an extensive delay left everyone hanging as to when they can experience the new mobile web browser’s added features and improvements.

Initially introduced in January, the Opera 9.5 had to be kept under wraps for some time to ensure its overall reliability and conformity with the Web’s latest and most advanced standards. The new 9.5, which is based on the desktop version, has been initially test-driven on HTC Touch Diamond mobile devices. Opera wanted to completely see how the browser would work on one specific phone before releasing it for use with other phone varieties.

The Opera 9.5 public beta version boasts of an intuitive user interface that provides for easy navigation and an overall convenient Web browsing experience. Other features that contribute to this end are tabbed browsing, improved text wrap, page overview, zooming and panning, landscape mode availability, saving of web pages for offline use, history and bookmarks, and Flash and Opera Widgets support. The new Opera 9.5 should be a lot faster than previous versions owing to its new Presto rendering engine.

You can download Opera Mobile Beta 9.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC phones over on the XDA-Developers site. They’re the first team to release a fully functional free Windows Mobile web browser. They’ve included every function that I’ve been waiting for and made the first browser capable of matching Safari Mobile’s interface for the iPhone.


The features include:

* Double-click Zoom
* Smooth touch based panning
* Finger-friendly interface for panning and menus.
* Tabs! Not kidding.
* Copy and Paste to other Windows Applications
* Plugin Architecture that allows for adding ‘Opera Widgets’
* Fixed form entry

Labels: Mobile web

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