"The premium web experience for rich, interactive content on mobile devices.
A web browser ideal for fast network connections on your mobile (such as Wi-Fi or 3G). Opera Mobile is smooth, speedy, and it makes surfing the Web on a mobile device more fun and efficient than ever."
About Opera Mobile
Opera is a fantastic web brower by Opera Software ASA from Norway. Their browser is for almost every desktop and mobile platform available - Read more about that here.
However there were a lot of doubts if Opera would ever release a version for the N9, especially because of rumored past conflicts between Nokia and Opera. Many N9 users got frustrated about that and sent lots of requests to Opera for making a N9 version (who knows maybe that helped that we have now a version on our N9s).
Pretty much at the time of the Nokia N9-release last year, a clever user made it possible to install an unofficial version of Opera Mobile, which originally was made for MeeGo tablets - even though this has been a great solution, important options like OperaLink weren't working.
Today though we got a surprise - an official version of Opera Mobile appeared in Nokia Store. It's to mention though, that this isn't the final release yet but a labs version (pre status of a beta version).
Features of Opera Mobile
Opera's browser is very rich on features and makes browsing easier in many ways. So it's easy to save Bookmarks (and sync them with OperaLink), download hole website pages and files, use of Speed Dial and more. Next to that Opera is very fast and has option to reduce your data usage.
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| Start Page with Speed Dial / Option menu / Inbuilt Opera keyboard |
What makes Opera Mobile special
By compressing webpages (especially pictures) up to 80%, Opera lets you reduce your data usage substantially. Turn on Opera Turbo to use this feature. Another option, which can be useful when you are on a foreign network, is to turn off "Load Images". By the way, Opera Turbo comes with a new option which deactivates it automatically when using Wi-Fi connection.
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| The keyboard is more usable in landscape mode / Opera Link works perfectly |
Another feature is OperaLink which lets you synchronize bookmarks to and from other devices. Watch the video below to get more informations:
Despite being still beta, Opera Mobile works very well and is incredible fast. A downside is the keyboard layout: It doesn't look right in portrait mode and it would be better to have the N9 standard keyboard with its vibration feedback - you will miss it using Opera browser.
Opera Mobile isn't only an alternative to the native N9 browser, it's an addition which is absolutely necessary for complex web browsing. Try it out, you will like it!
Download Opera Mobile from Nokia Store
Download Opera Mobile from Nokia Store
Did you download Opera Mobile for N9? How do you like it? What improvements would you wish for the final release? Please leave your comment below.
