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Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now available for WM devices

By | June 8, 2009, 6:54am PDT

Summary: Back in March I had the chance to check out Opera Mobile 9.7 at CTIA running on a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. Today, Opera announced that Opera Mobile 9.7 beta for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices is available for everyone to download and try out. I have been using it on an HTC Touch Pro2 and Pharos Traveler 137 for a couple of days and plan to post a video a bit later tonight of the new browser in action.

Back in March I had the chance to check out Opera Mobile 9.7 at CTIA running on a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. Today, Opera announced that Opera Mobile 9.7 beta for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices is available for everyone to download and try out. I have been using it on an HTC Touch Pro2 and Pharos Traveler 137 for a couple of days and plan to post a video a bit later tonight of the new browser in action.

The biggest new feature in Opera Mobile 9.7 is the integration of Opera Turbo, which is their server based solution so you now can get the power of Opera Mobile with the speed and data savings found in Opera Mini. There is a host of other features too, including Opera Widgets, improved UI, and more. As you can see on the download page you will need a Windows Mobile 5/6 touchscreen device to use this latest version of Opera Mobile.

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Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.

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Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
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RE: Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now available for WM devices
mbldev 16th Jun 2009
That is fantastic that Opera Mobile is available for windows mobile now. With all of the new touchscreens that are bigger and brighter, this new browser should be really good.
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Can You Test Your Links Before You Post A Story????
itanalyst2@... 8th Jun 2009
You click on "Microsoft Exec Dodges Questions About Windows 7 Pricing" and you get here.

Fire your web programmers, they have no clue on how to test a site before deployment.
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CobraA1 8th Jun 2009
Agreed - totally agreed. For a "tech" journal, the quality of their web programming is pretty low.

. . . and it's not just whatever they're using to push the news stories, their Talkback has had its share of issues as well.
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RE: Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now available for WM devices
jdbukis@... 9th Jun 2009
besides opera 9.7 beta defaults to wap pages on my phone anyway.
Which is odd because a earlier version comes with my touch hd and does not do this on most pages.
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RE: Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now available for WM devices
mbldev 16th Jun 2009
That is fantastic that Opera Mobile is available for windows mobile now. With all of the new touchscreens that are bigger and brighter, this new browser should be really good.

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