Opera has steadily been gaining ground and market share in the mobile browsing arena for some time now. To continue the path and keep building on their success they�ve just released 9.7 Beta for Windows Mobile devices. Some issues with the Beta have already been noted:
- Opera Turbo in Opera Mobile is still a preview-feature;
- Downloads don�t work while Opera Turbo is enabled.
- Some settings (such as toggle on/off images) do not apply when Opera Turbo is enabled. - On older WM 5.0 Devices with 480�800 resolution, switching between portrait and landscape may cause display errors. This is due to lack of support for this resolution in early versions of Microsoft �s driver.
- Some input method editors are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft�s SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QUERTY, ABC mode doesn�t work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.
- Only support for FlashLite 3.x. No Flash plugin included.
With that said, 9.7 still looks like a highly recommended download for anyone running a Win-Mo device. You may have noticed in the points above that this build is the first to set �Opera Turbo� technology into action� which, in a nutshell should speed up your browsing experience. The technology sends pages to Opera�s servers where they are compressed and sent back to your device at a fraction of the original size. Cool.
A widget manager add-on is also available with the Beta, and must be installed after you install Opera 9.7 (that is, if you want it to work!). Some known issues/points on the widget manager from Opera:
- The Widget manager is an add-on to the browser, so the browser must be installed in order for the widget manager to work.
- We recommend disabling Opera Turbo in the browser when using the widget manager.
- Rotating widgets does not work properly. Portrait mode should be used when running widgets.
- Widgets + Plugins (Flash & Gears) don�t work.
- Clicking internal links in a widget will launch the browser.
- Twitter widget might have login problems on first run. If this happens, just close the Twitter widget (X) and open it again.
Looks like a solid build, and although there are many known issues� that�s what the beta is for, right? You can check out all of the details and download for yourself over at Opera.
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