Opera announced its pathbreaking Turbo Technology fitted release version 9.7 last week. Although new in many aspects nevertheless it still has problem as far as changing its skin & color is concern.
Opera Mobile 9.7 beta is now available to accelerate the mobile browsing experience for Windows Mobile-based phones. Speed is at the heart of this beta release due to the addition of Opera’s recently launched technology for faster surfing, Opera Turbo. Opera has also included its newly upgraded browser engine, called Opera Presto 2.2, for faster page loads and better overall performance. With the added bonus of Opera Widgets, Opera Mobile 9.7 gets you the Web content you want in fewer clicks and less time.
Opera 9.5 Build 2392 - dont worry about the wrong version number in the image
We have a new Opera build ripped from a HTC Touch Diamond Rom. the build number for this version is 2392. Not sure what are the changes from the previous version other than the additional zoom feature on main screen.
Finally after a long time of ripped beta version from diamond ROMS we have the official beta version of Opera Mobile 9.5 , Its only avilable for Windows Mobile Professional devices , ie Touch screen devices @ the moment.
We have a new Opera build ripped from a HTC Touch Diamond Rom. the build number for this version is 1522. Not sure what are the changes from the previous version.
Known Issues:
Keyboard pop-up with flash player installed.
Another Opera built has been released @ xda-dev by phouki , In this version Homepage set to : google.com/m. Landscape mode now useable with keyboard with auto full screen on. These will install to main memory on device and the Cache Directory is set to \Storage Card\Application Data\Opera9. Language can be by changed by editing opera.ini in the \Windows\Opera9 folder. For English: Help URL=\Windows\Opera9\help\english\
Language File=\Windows\Opera9\locale\english.lng For Chinese: Help URL=\Windows\Opera9\help\chinese\
Language File=\Windows\Opera9\locale\chinese.lng For Spanish: Help URL=\Windows\Opera9\help\spanish\
Language File=\Windows\Opera9\locale\spanish.lng
As per reports from my.opera.com the initial public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 will be relesed on July 15th. Now why is this news as there are various builds of the same application floating around ( the latest being 1184 ) , mainly because of what they said
You should also expect a few differences between the versions that are pre-installed on phones and the public version of Opera Mobile 9.5.
What are the differences, well we dont know yet. They have cited the same reason for the delay in launching the application. As per the official blog its said that Opera 9.5 is coming to the Windows Mobile , so there might be a WM Professional and WM Standard as well.
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