Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocket now calm Opera has released Opera Mobile for Android is it good enough for you to use it as your daily browser let's take a look now opera has had Opera Mini for Android for a while now but Opera Mobile is the fully fledged browser from opera that includes some of the features of Opera Mini plus it adds a lot more that really makes the experience better so let's take a look at Opera Mobile for Android now Windows Mobile users know Opera Mobile very well it's been around on Windows Mobile since the days of HTC touch diamond2 fantastic browser it had great CAD management in later versions we got the speed dial and now it's on Android so let's talk about how his interface is so of course we have the speed dial which is an awesome tool and comma sort of from Google Chrome where you can put your favorite websites here so right when you launch the browser you can jump into the sites that you want to see so if we press + on one of these it shows us our recent history so let's add PocketNow and it's actually going to try to pull a thumbnail from pocket now to kind of give you a nicer visual experience and there it did that let's add another we're going to add regular Engadget and it is pulling the information from there and there we go and what we can do is tap and hold on one of the speed dials to clear it off or to edit it so let's go to a website and talk about browsing around on a page let's start off with Engadget this is actually going to the mobile version of Engadget I should mention that I have opera turbo turned on right now which is users use a server-side rendering talk about that in a minute so we should get faster page loads here so here it comes launched loading the full version of Engadget not super fast but it's coming along quite nicely we can browse the page while it's loading and scrolling is pretty darn fast we're getting a little bit of checker boards but in all fairness the site hasn't finished loading yet so it's coming up now let's move around on the page quickly we do get a little bit of blank spots the scrolling is fast once everything is cached and and rendered but in that first scroll you get a little bit of checker boards we can also pinch to zoom here which works quite some we can zoom out another thing you can do to get closer you can tap one time which is kind of odd for a mobile browser usually it's a double tap to zoom in but in this case it is a single tap so they move around on the screen but we can do a lot of things with tabs so I'm actually in the full-screen view right now so the tab interface isn't showing what I can do here is open up the tab interface launch another site go back into the tab interface what launched yet another site you can see how this gets really fast with this great tab management in Opera Mobile for Android so I'm just gonna keep loading on web sites here so you can get a sense for the performance that this browser brings when you're running lots of different web pages at one time it's about four open now let's make a fifth okay so now we have five tabs open and you may have noticed I didn't wait for the other tabs to finish while I went to the next one and let's see if they actually loaded and it looks like they actually did so this is a really cool way to flip between tabs you've run out of space pretty quickly though so you may not want to be running more than five tabs at a time but the pages continued to load even as other tabs loaded which was quite fantastic let's check out the full version of Gizmodo here see if we have that same problem with the page struggling a little bit to keep up now of course we have a landscape view if I slide out the keyboard here it uses the accelerometer but I have that disabled on this particular device will go back into portrait let it finish loading so here it is Gizmodo loaded quite fast again we're using the opera turbo let's scroll down the page so in this case very smooth everything is there everything is loaded and we can tap to zoom in move around on the page very smooth panning and scrolling let's go to another part of this website and see how fast that comes through whoa is that that's all ready it's loaded using opera turbo things are rendered on the server opera servers and then they're beamed down to your device the downside is there's some privacy concerns right because if you're sending your information to opera first and then down to you they're probably being able to track that information but if you're doing just casual web browsing it's a good idea to leave opera turbo turned on so let's jump into the settings these settings may look very familiar to Windows Mobile users is the same kind of thing let's go into settings to different things of note here load images as on opera turbo is turned on opera link is a feature we're not going to talk about here mobile view is turned off full screen it's probably something you may want to keep off actually because it hides the tab feature unless you press the Android button you can choose text wrap and the zoom mode and so now we have the non full screen mode so all the time we have access to these handy shortcuts and we can move between them although it's it's not the kind of interface where you can sort of swipe your finger and go to another one it doesn't really work like that it's more like tapping on another one so that the others move out of the way and let's see how this handles a website like mini clips calm it's actually a flash site that lets you play some some games so let's check that out okay so we're done loading here is pretty fast there so let's see what happens when you press play now you probably know what's going to happen here and you probably could have guess what would happen nothing happened because it doesn't support flash content here in Opera Opera Mobile but of course you can use a stock Android browser with the Adobe Flash 10.1 plugin if you want to get some flash content on your Android 2.2 device so overall a really fast browser that is plenty good enough for you to use as your daily driver if you're looking for an alternative to the stock Android browser does great tab management it is opera turbo to give you a little bit of a boost especially when you're over at slower connection and then has this really nice start page just a really nice interface that people from windows mobile world may remember very very highly recommended browser if you're looking for another kind of browsing experience please thumbs up this video and check out pocketnow.com for more smart phone news and reviews thanks for watching and that's it for now