Submitted by A group of Opera Software developers decided to port Opera to their favorite mobile platform. In a Q&A the team explains their motivation and the challenges they met when developing for Maemo. It is the first of Opera’s mobile browsers to feature the new Carakan JavaScript engine, which made Opera the quickest browser on the desktop.
just tried on the n900…
+’s: fast, great clean interface (without that twitter and facebook shit firefox puts in by default). Can toggle between mobile and normal rendering.
-‘s: as mentioned, no flash plugin which means you have to switch back to maemo browser for those nasty flash sites.
I tried this on N810. It rocks. Hats off for Opera for doing the right thing and supporting “legacy device” users – N810 has a larger screen than N900, so someone might prefer is as a browsing device if a reasonable browser is available.
N810 is not the fastest device around, so the fact that Opera managed to make this fast and smooth proves they have some good code under the hood.