If you have a Windows Mobile device and have any interest in a better Internet browsing experience, you should check this out. If your device has flash lite support (v3 I think is needed here) then you shuld be able to watch in-line flash videos. If not, you wont get that support.
Phone Arena have a hands-on and video.
even with our old HTC Wizard with TI processor at 200 MHz and modified WM6.1 OS, browsing a page is a pleasure, compared to doing it with IE
I’m sure there’s be lots of hands-on reports over the next week. I’ll be doing mine as soon as the iPaq 214 turns up. Expected tomorrow. (Unless I can steal my wife’s WM device!)
Via GottabeMobile
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
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!
if i am to guess, then the chessboard is indicative of something related to memory.
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)