Opera Mobile 10 beta scores 100% on the Acid 3 Test
While articles about awesome new browser features and WebKit are mushrooming around the Intertubes, mobile browsers for lower-end phones are ignored a lot in the media nowadays. With Android and the iPhone OS as the main players in today’s industry, devices featuring mainly touch input, lots of software for i.e. Symbian and less popular platforms is overlooked.
And today I want to talk about Opera Mobile 10 beta, because even though they are not very well accepted by the open source community, I cannot help but to think they have a team of experts from another planet, because what they just did with my 2008 Symbian S60 Nokia phone is just incredible. They literally modernised my phone.
Opera mobile 10 features a complete overhaul of the interface and a ton of new features, providing Symbian users with a very smooth ride (Animations), TABS, Bookmark Sync and one of the best mobile rendering engines I’ve ever seen, rivalling even the other WebKit-powered browsers on more powerful devices and it is not even the final version.
These are real screenshots from my Nokia E71.
I am not kidding, you have to test this browser yourself. The UI is just incredible. And I’ll be damned if it’s not one of the best pieces of programming Symbian has ever seen.
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Hello, I like Opera Mobile, the truth does not have a large cell (Nokia 6070) but works fine on Opera Mobile on …
correction, I use Opera Mobile Mini
Well, the only difference is that in Opera Mini, the rendering engine remains on the Opera servers and not on your machine, as is the case with Mobile.
How did you get it to look like that? Thats not the default look. How did you get the tabs on the top?
Nice. I didn’t know new version of Opera Mobile was already out. I use it extensively on my Nokia and on BB.
@YaManicKill: Yes this is default look of Opera Mobile, it’s view when Menu is selected.
That is interesting. I guess that is where the strength of the off-hardware rendering engine comes into play. Comparing it to the other browsers with their flaky compatibility modes where only something like HTML 4.0 would have a chance…
Curiously, Midori did the 3.0 test for a while; then something changed – I think it was the speed of the rendering of some components – and then… it didn’t. How bizarre.
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