Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now ready for download

Written on 6/08/2009 02:41:00 PM by poison_ivy

If you think Opera Mobile just rocks and love the browser on your Winmo phone well, you might want to try Opera Mobile 9.7. It's still in beta version but if the video demo on Opera's website is to be believed, then this holds a lot of promise.

The Opera Mobile 9.7 makes use of Opera Turbo which offloads pages to Opera's servers which gets compressed before being sent to the phone making rendering pages faster. It's the same technology used on Opera Mini though I have some qualms about transfering files to a server as what would it do to my passwords? Would my passwords be safe on Opera's servers?

Anyways, to make rendering pages even faster, the Opera Mobile 9.7 makes use of Presto 2.2 which is the same technology used on Opera desktop browsers. I just downloaded it and will see how it works. As per Opera's website, 9.7 still doesn't have any Flash plugin.

Download Opera Mobile 9.7 here (Windows touchscreen devices only).

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