The browser is expected to deliver much higher speeds

Mar 28, 2009 11:56 GMT  ·  By

Norwegian browser company Opera Software announced recently plans to come to CTIA in Las Vegas next week with a new version of its mobile phone web browser, namely the Opera Mobile 9.7. The cross-platform browser solution is expected to be able to provide users with a wide range of capabilities, as well as with an enhanced browsing experience.

The new version of Opera Mobile comes with some new features such as the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which can already be seen and enjoyed by those who use Opera 10 on desktop computers, as well as with Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization technique developed by the company, which uses a so-called “Opera Web Optimization Proxy.”

While this is good news for some, it is bad news for many others, namely for those who use Opera Mini. Given the fact that this browser uses a technology called Opera Binary Markup Language, the acceleration technology provided by Opera Turbo will not work on it, and we should note that the recent numbers showed that Opera Mini had a userbase of 20.5 million.

For the time being, those who would benefit from the fast browsing speeds that Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo and Presto 2.2 would only be Windows Mobile users, which again would sadden a number of people who use other platforms, especially some Symbian users who would enjoy having it available on their mobile phones.

For what it's worth, Opera Software says that its new version of the mobile browser is able to allow users access to different webpages at much higher speeds than before (Opera Turbo is meant to compress about 80 percent of data), even at times when the connection used is a rather slow one. Hopefully, more details on the application will become available as soon as it is unveiled at CTIA, and we'll also hear that it will come to other platforms as well in the near future. In the meantime, you might want to check out the photo gallery of the Opera Mobile 9.7.

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