Comments on: Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta is live.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:17:17 +0000

if i am to guess, then the chessboard is indicative of something related to memory.

By: pispot

pispot — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:02:16 +0000

It is strange, but the hacked Diamond versions from xda-developers.com seem to work faster and better.

Biggest handicap of the official version is that the the text wraps in overview mode. The diamond version displays the overview exactly like a desktop and wraps the text to fit in the screen after zoom in.
(Yes, they do mention it in the buglist, but this feature worked in the diamond versions long ago ?!)

I would not recommend this beta. Better to wait for another, or check some diamond versions from xda-developers.com.

(Or try Netfront 3.5 beta which is some (more important, like speed) parts the better browsers, but gets only a tenth of the attention, for ACCESS bad marketing strategy)

By: Will

Will — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:45:12 +0000

The UI is very nice and responsive. Rendering is still slower than NetFront but feels faster than Opera 8.65.

I’ve found that it has a tendency to scroll wildly sometimes. It will also sometimes just display a checkerboard pattern in place of the website content. I hope these bugs get ironed out in the next beta.

Comment made with Opera Mobile 9.5 beta on a Samsung i780!

By: Chippy

Chippy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:41:09 +0000

Writing this through OM 9.5 on my wifes Trinity. Very nice U i.
Can browse ans select links with one hand using the scroll wheel.

Complex sites are slow. Reader took over 2 mins to load.
Chippy