- September 16, 2009 5:42 am
Ladies and Gentlemen: Start your downloadin’. Mobile users longing for a more enjoyable browsing experience will have a reason to take up gymnastics this fine Wednesday morning with the news that Opera Mini 5 beta is out and ready for your consumption. Building upon the already amazing predecessors, OM 5 adds several key features such as:
- Quicker, more intuitive UI and navigation
- *Skins and Opera Link coming in future 5.x builds*
While all of the features they listed are very welcome additions, the added support for tabbed browsing finally makes Opera Mini a legitimate contender and option in the mobile browser marketplace. Not to mention, with the vast array of devices that Opera Mini supports, it appears that people far and wide will soon be experiencing the web with even greater ease. +1 Opera.
Source: Gizmodo
RIM and BlackBerrys are one of my top smartphone choices. They may not be the prettiest thing in town nor the most intuitive, but their sheer speed, simplicity, and messaging capabilities often make up for it. While the BB browser until recently has been the butt of jokes because it was downright terrible (even that’s giving it some), OS 4.6 and 4.7 have brought many improvements in both speed and rendering quality to the in-house browser. OS 5.0 further improves upon the BlackBerry browser by adding one long overdue feature: Tabbed browsing. While it still isn’t anywhere close to dethroning Apple or Android in terms of mobile browsers, the addition of tabbed browsing will bring a much needed feature that many crack addicts have been clamoring many years for. The only problem is that so far in the OS 5.0 beta, setting up multiple tabs is easy as seen in the image above, but, moving in between those tabs is downright hell. Let’s hope RIM adds some shortcuts before 5.0 goes live. Welcome to 2007! Come on in for a few more screenshots of multiple tabs in action.
