{"id":8392,"date":"2010-11-17T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2010-11-17T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:42:42","slug":"opera-mobile-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8392\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Mobile for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finally got a chance to try the\u00a0 Android Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 that was released<\/a> last week.\u00a0 It’s available in the Android Market for devices running Android OS 1.6 and later.\u00a0 There’s a special Android OS 1.5 build that’s only available directly from Opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you never used Opera Mobile before the first thing you will notice is that it’s look and feel are almost identical to that of Opera Mini.\u00a0 Appearances are deceiving in this case as Mini and Mobile are completely different under the hood.\u00a0 Opera Mini is a server assisted browser. Pages are rendered and optimized by servers in Opera’s Google-sized data centers<\/a> around the world and then sent to the lightweight Opera Mini client, which is basically a lightweight viewer.\u00a0 Opera Mobile is a traditional web browser that connects directly to any site’s web server to retrieve, parse and render html, CSS and JavaScript on the device itself.<\/p>\n

Opera Mini has the advantage of working well even on the most basic phones and slowest networks as the hard work is done on the server.\u00a0 The trade-off is that interactive web apps using complex JavaScript tend to work poorly or not at all with Mini. Opera Mobile is at its best on devices with\u00a0 a fast CPU and network\u00a0 and lots of memory.\u00a0 Most Android phones fall into that category but not all. I tried Opera Mini on three Android phones;<\/p>\n