The Opera Mobile 9.5 public beta version will finally be available on July 15. This was announced recently by Opera after an extensive delay left everyone hanging as to when they can experience the new mobile web browser’s added features and improvements.


Initially introduced in January, the Opera 9.5 had to be kept under wraps for some time to ensure its overall reliability and conformity with the Web’s latest and most advanced standards. The new 9.5, which is based on the desktop version, has been initially test-driven on HTC Touch Diamond mobile devices. Opera wanted to completely see how the browser would work on one specific phone before releasing it for use with other phone varieties.

The Opera 9.5 public beta version boasts of an intuitive user interface that provides for easy navigation and an overall convenient Web browsing experience. Other features that contribute to this end are tabbed browsing, improved text wrap, page overview, zooming and panning, landscape mode availability, saving of web pages for offline use, history and bookmarks, and Flash and Opera Widgets support. The new Opera 9.5 should be a lot faster than previous versions owing to its new Presto rendering engine.

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