[Pete Paxton]

http://press-releases.techwhack.com/14669/opera-mobile-3/

"If you’re looking for the best browser for your Pocket PC or Smartphone, look no further. Opera Mobile, the browser of choice for feature rich phones developed by Opera Software, has been recognized as the best mobile browser for both Windows-based Pocket PC and Smartphones at the 2007 Best Software Awards by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine. Nominations were open to all providers and vendors of mobile Internet technology and applications were selected by a judging panel of experts from the wireless community. Opera Mobile was nominated to compete against its sister product, Opera Mini, and ThunderHawk in the Internet browsers and Web utilities category for Windows-based Pocket PCs. In the Smartphone Web browser category, Opera Mobile again beat fellow product Opera Mini and Skweezer in a heated race."

So do you agree? Is Opera the best choice for browsing with a Windows Mobile device? I know I may be in the majority here but I actually don't mind IE on my Dash. I guess I'm just used to it. I've tried Opera on my Dash but  I just couldn't get the hang of it. So do you use a specific browser or does it really matter to you?

[Pete Paxton]

http://press-releases.techwhack.com/14669/opera-mobile-3/

"If you’re looking for the best browser for your Pocket PC or Smartphone, look no further. Opera Mobile, the browser of choice for feature rich phones developed by Opera Software, has been recognized as the best mobile browser for both Windows-based Pocket PC and Smartphones at the 2007 Best Software Awards by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine. Nominations were open to all providers and vendors of mobile Internet technology and applications were selected by a judging panel of experts from the wireless community. Opera Mobile was nominated to compete against its sister product, Opera Mini, and ThunderHawk in the Internet browsers and Web utilities category for Windows-based Pocket PCs. In the Smartphone Web browser category, Opera Mobile again beat fellow product Opera Mini and Skweezer in a heated race."

So do you agree? Is Opera the best choice for browsing with a Windows Mobile device? I know I may be in the majority here but I actually don't mind IE on my Dash. I guess I'm just used to it. I've tried Opera on my Dash but  I just couldn't get the hang of it. So do you use a specific browser or does it really matter to you?

[zoom2020]

I haven't been able to get the hang of Opera either. I thought it was just me since so many rave about the opera browser.

[tut00]

I feel the same way. I have tried Opera, but just didn't like it. IE is fine for what I use it for on my Blackjack.

[mpaquette]

$24 for this? Seems a bit pricey to me.

[acharn]

Originally Posted by tut00

I feel the same way. I have tried Opera, but just didn't like it. IE is fine for what I use it for on my Blackjack.

i've tried Opera, but it just isn't easy to use. it's java-based and requires more clicks than i want or even need to give to get the content i want.

wm internet explorer does what it needs to for me. i don't think opera is the best app out there.

i have decided that windows mobile, whatever app, will never be as user friendly as the iphone. it's just all too clunky and cloogy.

[mboone]

I much prefer the free Opera Mini to anything else including Opera Mobile.

[GreatDay]

I wish i could tell ya. I'd love to be able to try any one of these (and someday know why i can't) on my Moto Q. IE was bad enough on my old Axim, but on a smartphone it just makes me crazy and makes me only go on the web from it when ABSOLUTELY necessary. So far Deepfish has been the only one I have wished they'd hurry up development on. Word that Mozilla is making a push is encouraging, but the truth is, I want something better NOW. As my grandmother would have said: "If they can put a man on the moon, then why oh why can't we......."

[EleazarB]

I use a Cingular 3125 and the Opera Mobile Browser.... yes I put the 24 bucks for it.. but I love it!! It brings up pages so much faster, ( on the slower EDGE network) plus when you go to paypal, it thinks you are using desktop computer..... That way my customers can pay for the HVAC work that I do with their credit card over my phone... Pretty slick!! (PIE just wont let that happen..) It also lets Java script buttons work properly, and other such sperfy things...
I guess I really don't know whats so hard to " get the hang of it" ..... seems about as hard to use as a gas pump these days :-)

Good day!

[spos5]

I use IE for hours a day on my Dash, for one simple reason: there are so many mobile optimized web sites out there. You've got banking, box.net, facebook, google, gmail, google reader, msn, yahoo, weather, this web site and many many more - all optimized for the mobile browsers (all work great in Mobile IE). Sometimes, I'll use the mobile versions of those websites on my desktop, just to avoid the glut (ads, etc.).

Also, I've tried Opera Mini & Mobile - just too clunky and suck up a LOT of memory (thanks to J2ME).

[frankenbike]

Opera is the best browser because it's winning by default. The field of contenders on the PPC is sad, and there's simply nothing that works as well as Safari on the iPhone. That has kind of given us an idea of what is possible, and a baseline for what we should expect. Opera 9 is supposed to have a lot of Safari-eque improvements. We'll see.

I think I might be in the majority of people who think if you spend $24 on a browser, you expect a lot more than what Opera offers. OTOH, I'd pay $10 for it. That's "impulse buy" money, a couple of fast food lunches worth. Whatever their business model is, it's in need of updating for today's market.

I wonder how many people who try Opera but don't buy it, would purchase it if it were in the $10 range? (Yeah I'm a cheap bastard, and there are a lot of people out there like me). If it's more than 2 1/2 times the number who would pay $24 for it, then Opera is losing money.

It's a different PPC (phone) world out there today, and mass market is possible today where it wasn't two years ago.