Opera Mobile 10 Goes Into Beta

does it support flash and youtube.

Looks like it supports flash, yes.

It’s not perfect, but better than Mini by virtue of not being Java based.

YouTube doesn’t seem to work, though I actually think Flash isn’t really supported and when I tried Google Wave it hung the browser – the release notes do state that heavy use will occasionally do this.

Still for general non-flash browsing which I do even with the S60 5th browser to speed things up, this really impresses. Symbian/Nokia really need to pull their fingers out and re-write the S60 browser just as RIM has finally realised this with their orignal one.

I think the biggest difference compared to Opera Mini 5 is that Opera Mobile supports full set of web standards such as Java Script with AJAX, full CSS and HTML support. In other words, pages can function same as on the full desktop browser.
That should be highlighted in the first line definitely.

For example try to load gmail.com in Opera Mobile as a standard desktop Gmail page and see what I mean.

this is brilliant, worlds ahead of any other options available for s60(v3 anyway, can’t comment for 5). Running on an e71 and is very fluid, renders everything perfectly.

Apart from lack of Flash support I’m very much impressed by this beta. One thing that bugs me (no pun intended) is the inability to paste into URL with Opera’s virtual keyboard. Anybody figured out how to do that? Other than turning the virtual keyboard off, that is…

Tried both Mini 5 beta and this one. Personally I prefer mini for all but the few pages that it doesnt render well.

Opera Mobile 10 has the same shortcomming as nokias built in browser and it really surprises me that I never see it mentioned: When you go back to previous page it is re-downloaded, wich takes virtually for ever.

This is the one feature that I really love with opera mini – previously visited pages are cached and makes the browsing experience light-years more pleasant.

iPhone has the same shortcomming, and I really cant understand how anybody would mobile browse in those conditions when there is an alternative.

It gets especially frustrating when you visit the homepage for a newspaper, and after reading each article you go back and have to wait a minute for the index page.

The gui part of Opera Mobile is really slick and nice, can only hope they implement cached history for final release.

Turns out if you touch and hold in the URL line, you get pop up menu with Paste option :)

With Mini 5 beta I could define the access point to use, is this not possible with Mobile 10 beta ?

This native version is far smoother and faster than the Java variant. It runs well on the i8910 with an appropriate amount of eye candy in the menus. The kinetic scrolling is more fluid and responsive than the built in browser. The browser itself is great. But aside from the lack of flash support, what would keep me from using this in it’s current build is its keyboard. I started writing this response using Opera on my phone and I gave up about 30 seconds in and had to grab my laptop. The virtual QWERTY is painfully difficult to use in landscape mode and portrait, with no option for t9 input in portrait. There’s no shift function, only caps lock, and I can’t find an apostrophe anywhere in the symbols grid. I suppose this would be less frustrating after setting up bookmarks, but any amount of typing on this keyboard was just too much for me. How would those of you with resistive screens (N97, 5530, and 5800 users) rate the usability of the keypad?

adam@iunlock:
On N97 keyboard is supported in both Mini Beta 5 and Mobile 10, so for casual input I use the opera keyb in portrait mode, for serious input I would slide out the keyboard, minor issue is that the virtual keyb is covering like 70% of screen even when the real keyboard is out and used, but since the virtual keyb is so good in portrait mode, I rather live with this.

It would be verry nice if there was separate options for virtkeyb in portrait and landscape

@payaxy: also can’t paste into the url bar. Pretty annoying, I’d love to be able to get this working as the default browser when i click a link.

In opera mini you can, (s60v3) if you hold the up arrow(one that changes to upper case) for a few seconds a paste option comes up. Probably similar in v5

Real treat for Satio and i8910 owners this one, all the benefits without any worries about RAM consumption.

i cant connect to any site! always getting any error saying “could not loacte remote server” but when i try the built in web browser i can connect to any site i want! whats the problem? any help? btw running firmware v2.0 n97

@Jaclu
There is a setting u can do in about:config that makes it perform like Opera Mini in terms of the back button.

User Pref->History Navigation Mode = 3

Just installed this on an N97 I’m testing. The Opera virtual keyboard is infinitely more usable on a resistive screen than on my i8910′s capacitive screen.

NZtechfreak, you are absolutely correct. However, unless Opera improves the keypad performance with capacitive screens, only Satio users will get ALL of the benefits.

You can turn off the virtual keyboard, ya know, and just use the same default text input as in text messaging for example.

One thing I don’t like is that it used a lot more RAM than mini; so much so that when i had one more app open the phone became unusable as I ran out of ram.

At the moment also anything I try to access any web page it looks for a username/password for the opera server. Annoying.

Very slick looking, very smooth to use (5800xm) but a number of issues to be addressed before final release.

Damnit! After upgrade all my favorites and speed dials are gone!

Bad enough I had to manually restore them from v9, but now have to do it again???

Damnit! After upgrade all my favorites and speed dials are gone!

Bad enough I had to manually restore them from v9, but now have to do it again???