Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta
Download Page (Use the Windows Mobile 5/6 Pocket PC link)
If you haven’t downloaded Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta for your Samsung Epix, get it now while its still in beta (read FREE)! Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta does a remarkable job of rendering Web pages true to life and allows you to navigate them with relative ease. Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta is light years ahead of Mobile Internet Explorer. The only other Windows Mobile Browser that can compete with Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta right now is Skyfire which can be slow due to its off-client Web page rendering model.
A couple of Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta’s most notable features are:
- Double-tap the screen to zoom in and out
- Zoom slider for more controlled zooming
- Pan view by dragging your finger on touchscreen
- Intelligent address bar that gives you a drop-down of recently accessed site’s as you type in your URL.
- Handles Web sites with complex designs, though heavy Javascript and AJAX causes problems.
- Automatically formats text to fit in your screen (which may come across as text appearing to not flow correctly, but really this is a feature not a bug)
- Quick load and render times.
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 am
hi, i just downloaded the Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta and it seems to be working great until i went to youtube. when i try to watch a vid it says, you either have javascript turned off or an old version of adobe’s flash player? sorry if this is a noob question but i don’t know what to do. thanks jr
December 25th, 2008 at 5:34 am
juston, I dont think Opera 9.5 can play YouTube movies
.. Youll have to checkout the Skyfire web browser for that (www.skyfire.com).
December 25th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
david, do you run skyfire or opera? can you have both on on the phone or does that cause conflict? thanks jr
December 27th, 2008 at 1:46 am
justin,
I run both Skyfire and Opera 9.5 .. There are no conflicts. Skyfire is nice because you can watch Youtube-style flash movies in it.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:47 am
i installed skyfire and everything works great besides the sound. when i watch a youtube video no sound? you have any thoughts sir? thanks jr
December 31st, 2008 at 10:18 am
Justin,
I recommend using Kinoma Play (or it’s free variant — Kinoma Free Play) for youtube clips.
http://kinoma.com/
It does a lot more than just youtube clips:
1. It does shoutcast/net radio/many other media streaming formats and sites.
2. It has a search funtion you can use to find stuff on youtube/any of these other sites/formats. (You’re usually searcing in one at a time — like you’d go to search > youtube and then enter the search term).
3. It’s finger-friendly
4 It looks good
5. It’s stable
Thanks.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Having trouble downloading. I’m only getting .part files
January 16th, 2009 at 3:37 am
dru bob – sorry about that – i’ve updated the download link.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
thx
March 5th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Opera 9.5 is a must. I used various reincarnations of it on my HTC Kaiser, and it works great on the Epix. One caveat: the “official beta 2″ seems a bit slower than the versions I used before. Also, the device/agent name don’t seem right. For example when you visit http://www.aa.com in Pocket IE, it knows to take you to the mobile version. When you do the same with Opera, you get the full version even if you have “mobile view” in the settings. No biggie, just a bit annoying.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Do we download the first link or the 2nd link that says “Gears-enabled technical preview…”?
March 29th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Paul – i’d get the Gears version. It is newer and has Google Gears support (Google Gears allows browsers to be more powerful and run complex web sites more efficiently)
April 4th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Thank you David. I down loaded it to my Desktop on my Laptop…what do I do next to get it installed in my Epix?
April 15th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
David,
I was wondering, will you try out the portable Firefox version. (I don’t have one yet, but probably will soon and think that if this works good then I will definetly buy it. Please try it out and tell me what you think of it.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Anyone there?
April 30th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Can you have Opera 9.5 and leave IE also on the Epix? I’m guessing yes (considering the answer above re Firefox) but wanted to be sure as it does not mention it at the Opera site. Thanks!
May 5th, 2009 at 12:39 am
jeanne – yes. when you install Opera 9.5 on your Samsung Epix, IE will stay installed. Infact its probably very very difficult to delete IE from your Samsung Epix. Install Opera 9.5 without any worries!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Regarding YouTube – “There is an app for that” I use a separate Google app for YouTube, that has it’s own icon, and it works marvelously!
June 11th, 2009 at 2:32 am
I downloaded the program and it is in a file….now how do I make it work? I can open it from that file and make it work but does the program work to make every program work like that?
June 19th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
A newer version of Opera Mobile 9.7 beta has been released.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Hi I just got the Epix and cannot do any livestreaming for audio. I was on the phone with Samsung level 3 support for over an hour and they weren’t able to assist either, although they were very willing to try and are looking into it. Any advice. should I get Opera on my phone. I want to be able to listen to my local public radio station they have a website that live streams. Will Opera mess up my syncing with outlook? Thanks to anyone who can assist.
Mike
August 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Opera is decent. I used it on my Blackberry but for the Epix, I much prefer SkyFire. SkyFire’s interface with Facebook and Gmail is clever and useful (also can do Twitter, etc). Opera lacks flash, which makes it only slightly better than Internet Explorer. Some pages did seem to load faster with Opera (probably because the lack of Flash).
Thanks for this site!
September 10th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
So which version of skyfire for the epix? I downloaded touch screen but it acts strangely. I can’t create a FB update, the dialog box opens but I can’t type anything into it…. Should I have downloaded non touch?
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm
how can i use wifi with opera?
October 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
is there a video of this app in action?