Comments on: Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta. good, but where’s the hardware? Review and Video.

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:49:37 +0000

[...] case of ‘nice software, shame about the hardware?’ I say that because it was the conclusion I came to with Opera 9.5 a while back. The accuracy, UI and features were vastly improved but the bottle-kneck is the [...]

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:35:56 +0000

[...] I wrote about Opera 9.5 Mobile a short while back I highlighted how it was a great browser with no hardware to run it on. What I [...]

By: Arlo

Arlo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:22 +0000

I love Opera Mobile 9.5 on my HTC Touch. It’s perfect for a device like this. Granted I only use my device for sites and tools that are suitable for the 320×240 screen on the device (RSS feeds a LOT), but it works great for this purpose.

On any other device but a smartphone hitting QVGA or VGA resolution, I can see how it would be disappointing.

Opera NetBook, anyone?

By: pispot

pispot — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:44:43 +0000

As said before this beta is flawed.
The diamond versions of the opera are faster and less bugged.

I just cant imagine why opera released this version as the official beta-

Sadly you didn’t try the netfront 3.5 beta in comparison.
It proves that fluid webbrowsing on a PDA is possible, not quite as fast as a decent umpc but near and for half of the price and double of battery life and a handier form factor.

By: TareX

TareX — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:09 +0000

Everrun rules, of course.

But I agree it’s sadly not as good as the iPhone. Actually the presence of the iPhone in my opinion has killed touchscreen pocketpcs….

By: Juergen

Juergen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:17:10 +0000

No full internet experience, true. But I think you’re missing the point:
A PDA or smartphone is meant to be taken with you all the time. Therefore it has to be small, light and with at least a full day of battery lifetime. Sure, there’s a lot of technical evolution going on making displays less power consuming and cpu’s more energy efifficient. Nevertheless, you won’t get both, the processing power and display size necessary for the same internet experience as on a desktop computer on the one hand and a lightweight palmsized device with enough battery lifetime for full mobile working experience. Maybe in a year or two those embedded devices will have faster cpu’s and let’s say foldable displays, but our desktop machines then will be faster, too, and web 3.0 will be more demanding - again no full internet experience.
Opera mobile is and always will be a compromise. As is every other embedded browser I’ve seen till now including Minimo (the mobile Firefox) and Safari. Compared to those embedded browsers Opera mobile 9.5beta does a great job and enriches the mobile internet experience a lot. But just my two cents.

Regards,
Juergen