Opera Mini 5 beta & Opera Mobile 10 Are Good Browsers But Bad Windows Mobile App Citizens
I installed the production release of Opera Mobile 10 and the current beta of Opera Mini 5 on two Windows Mobile phones for testing. Both took a long time to start up (much longer than Internet Explorer) but provided a better browsing experience than Microsoft’s own browser. Both browsers achieve their rendering prowess from passing through Opera’s proxy servers to reformat web pages and images. That also brings into question how safe it is to use sites that require login names and passwords like social network services.
My biggest problem with Opera’s mobile browsers for Windows Mobile, however, is that neither seems to give let the user access other apps while the browser is running.
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