Opera has launched Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian based smart phones. Like its predecessor, Opera 10 Beta is pretty fast and loads pages faster than most of the Internet browsers available. I have been using Opera 5 Bet on my N79 and I am pretty happy with it and I have just now installed the Opera 10 Beta on the N97. I must say that the Interface of Opera 10 Beta is much user friendly and using it on the big touch screen of the Nokia N97 is a bliss. This version of the Opera browser has the same home screen where you can assign your favorite pages for quick access. This version of Opera is optimized for Symbian S60 devices (3rd and 5th Edition) available on Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones. This version of opera comes with password manager, Opera turbo, which enables the loading of the pages faster (you also have an option to turn-off this feature). The best feature of the browser is that it has a optimized keyboard for touch screen phones. From your Symbian S60 phone, you can go to http://www.opera.com/mobile/next/ and download the Opera Mobile 10 Beta version. Check out some informative pics of the Opera Mobile 10 Beta on the N97.
Opera Mobile 10 Beta being downloaded on the Nokia N97, the software does not support Asian languages as of now. As you all know that the N97's native Symbian browser is pretty fast, so the Opera site opened quickly without any difficulties.
The screen above is the home screen of the browser. You can have nine website on the home screen that you visit frequently. You will also see that the menu bar has moved down and you can go back and forward using the arrow keys. You can see the "Show Tabs" key and also the settings key.
The above options come up when you click the settings key. The interface is optimized for touch screen S60 5th Edition phones. You can check your History, Organize Bookmarks, configure browser settings (like image quality, page zoom-in and zoom-out, Opera Turbo on/off etc), search web pages and close the browser.
This is the tabs menu of the browser where you can browse between tabs and also go back to your home screen.
As I said, the keyboard has been optimized for touch screen phones and though it looks a bit cramped up in the portrait mode its fairly easy to use. The keys pop up the moment you touch them for writing in the address bar (Just like on the native QWERTY keyboard thats sits in the iPhone).
I opened my blog on the browser, to see how much time it takes (as my blog is image heavy). The browser was pretty fast and has left me impressed.
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