Diablo/OS2008 First impressions (on N810).


First of all the browser looks great. Very attractive speed dial page as starting screen that you can customize with your favorite sites:



Easy to access menu for settings, history, etc:




The addition of 'tabs' is very useful and something that is very welcome:


After having played with the browser for 30 minutes my first impressions are that;

Pro's:
a) It is a very attractive browser,
b) The tabs is a very valuable feature that works well,
c) Love the speed dial screen,
d) Kinetic scrolling is very good,
e) Zoom-tap works well,

Con's/Uncertain:
f) It does NOT seem to be a 'faster' browser on my N810 than say microB. I did some very unscientific tests where I launched google.com, yelp.com and youtube.com in the browsers (three times each) and microB was faster every single time (sometimes twice as fast).
Example:
Yelp.com (ran three times in each browser):
- microb: Fully loaded in 12-16 seconds,
- Opera: Fully loaded in 40-50 seconds.

Note again: This is on Diablo, Maemo5 users may see very different results.

g) Even though I have youtube.com in the speed dial Opera insists on opening up m.youtube.com (even with 'Mobile view' on or off).

h) In 30 minutes the browser simply closed down 2-3 times for no apparent reason

i) No Flash support.

Conclusion:
A VERY nice 'preview release'!
If f-i above could be addressed (at least for Diablo, and assuming that it is not user-errors (which is possible)) I would make this my default browser already now

Thanks Opera!