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Ultrabrief: Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are no longer beta

Categories: Applications
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 1:57 AM

Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are finally final, but not for all platforms. Here’s the snippet from the press release you care about:

Opera Mini 5 is available on all Java-based and BlackBerry phones, as well as Android and Windows Mobile (both in beta only) phones. Opera Mobile 10 is available on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60-based mobile phones.

So while I’d love to do a review of the finished version of Opera Mini 5, I can’t because I have a Nexus One. I wonder if Opera is doing this out of spite for what I said about Opera Mini 5, short answer: no, but I honestly hope that the Norwegian winter lasts just a little bit longer so those programming vikings can fix the terrible font rendering that plagues the Android version.

How do you get these applications? Type m.opera.com into your mobile browser and rock and roll. Highly recommended if you have an older device, or are stuck in a country that has spotty, or even no, 3G service.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • telefan

    does first ‘are’ in title should be ‘and’?thanks for brief.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    whoops! thanks!

  • MOut

    So… you have yet to explain what these font problems are.

    I haven’t seen any what so ever!

    So what are you referring to exactly?

  • MOut

    Stefan, what’s with the constant nagging about fonts? Why can you never explain exactly what the problem is?