Quick look at Opera Mobile 9.5 beta

The 9.51 beta 1 was released yesterday. I installed it on my device and here is a quick small review of it.

The Cab file weighs a whopping 8689kb!(8.9MB)

It takes a while to install it, approximately 2-3mins

As soon as you type the first letter, it searches your Bookmarks and displays them. You type in second letter and they will go away. Also, it automatically fetches your IE favorites

Ok ok! My website sure looks weird in Opera Mobile. I notice that the columns are auto-configured to display only a certain amount of text that would fit in once you zoom-in.

zoomed in
zoomed in

It certainly looks better in landscape and is recommened to be used to landscape as it lets it to fit more.

..and it did not take me long to get this message :( ..and I’m using single tab!

uh oh! this is what happens when you are using a device with 64mb of RAM
uh oh! this is what happens when you are using a device with 64mb of RAM

Settings page screenshot

Overall:

  • Not too impressed
  • Speed is ok
  • Rendering is great
  • Devices with 64MB of RAM may face ‘out of memory‘ errors