If it comes to web browsers it’s worth mentioning Opera Mobile. Recently it came also to N900 with all of it’s features, with official news at Opera Labs.

At first glance it runs well, no slow-downs or glitches. First page is reserved for speed dial that can be customized with pages of your choice. Interface doesn’t invade in browsing area, address bar hides when scrolling down the page. Almost every part of interface is animated but not in the way overwhelming user with windows flying around and works pretty smooth.

When looking into settings you can see that Opera already has automatic portrait mode, so it’s possible to browse with one hand. Full screen gives really nice experience, while browser takes care of text width to fit the screen. This is is default behaviour of Opera Mobile and Mini browsers, as well as showing full page with zoom window visible, while ‘back’ button works as zoom-out. Tabs, another feature we cannot live without, is located on the bottom and animates miniatures of opened tabs.

I think Opera may be first serious rival for MicroB browser. It’s way faster than Fennec on N900, looks nice and well balanced between eye-candy and simplicity. Still this is Opera, browser which customizes page layout to be readable on small screens, so it’s up to you what you really need.

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