Following a series of delays after its announcement at February’s Mobile World Congress, it looks like Opera Mobile 9.5 is finally ready to make its public beta debut. According to the official Opera Mobile blog , it will be available for download on Opera.com starting on July 15th.
For just about every Opera Mobile fan, the 15th can’t come soon enough. Powered by the same rendering engine (Presto) used in the Opera Mobile 9.5 desktop browser, it oughtta be about as fast as it gets. With support for Opera Widgets, Javascript, AJAX, and Flash (Lite 3.0), Opera Mobile 9.5 might just knock Mobile Safari off its high horse.
Oddly, the post only mentions Windows Mobile support; no mention of a Symbian release date yet.
Supposedly the Windows Mobile 6.1 Willcom 03 that went on sale on 27 June in Japan has Opera Mobile 9.5. It was announced late May.
I’ll check it out myself when I get chance, but as you are in Japan Greg you’ll be able to do the same :-) Drop me a note if you need any assistance :-)
http://www.willcom-inc.com/ja/lineup/ws/020sh/index.html (Japanese)
http://www.windowsmobileinjapan.com/2008/05/transformed-willcom-03.html (English)