Woah! Opera mobile for Android without hardware acceleration is already amazingly fast (~4m:00):

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/15/opera-mobile-android/

The public beta may not have hardware acceleration, but already it's amazingly fast on the Galaxy S. I expect that it will also cook on the Galaxy Tab. The final version will likely be flawless.

Even though Opera Mobile doesn't have hardware acceleration, the fast scrolling experience is enough to make it my default browser -- unless it has some annoying feature that I'm not aware of, of course.

Come to think about it, on the NIT, opera mobile uses a custom keyboard. This is fine as the NIT onscreen keyboard is anything but stellar. However, on Android, I think I would rather stick with the default keyboard that use the opera mobile keyboard, so here's hoping that this is not a problem.