Today Opera release Opera Mini 5 beta for Android and its available in the Android Market right now. It features the same addition such as tabbed browsing, dialer bookmark home screen and of course faster page loading that Windows Mobile, Blackberry and iPhone versions currently have now. Check out the screenshots an first impressions inside.
Users of Windows Mobile and Blackberry are familiar with Opera Mini already and how great a mobile browser it can be. As so far the experience has been good for most of the sites I went to.
However, BWOne.com full site doesn’t render fully in Opera Mini but it does work the mobile page just fine.
Currently there is no multi-touch capabilities and there is no word if those will come when more devices have Android 2.1 on theme. The dialer for your favorite pages looks great and the way you switch tabs has a nice fluid animation on it.
Look for a video review soon.
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