As we posted earlier this week, Opera has released Opera Mobile 10 in beta form, a full S60-native alternative web browser to the S60 Webkit version. Ewan's been trying it out on some of his favourite sites and here's his illustrated review. Comments welcome. He'll be revisiting Opera Mobile 10 when the app finally comes out of beta.

"So how do you go about reviewing a web browser in the modern internet world? With so many services on S60 smartphones now coming wrapped up in their own little slice of code that talks to the web API's, my first challenge was to actually think about what I still use the web browser for? It's not Twitter, as the Gravity client handles this better than any web interface... It's not Gmail, as Google provides a more than competent standalone client (and Ovi Mail handles it nicely as well)... So how much time do I actually spend on my mobile phone's browser?"

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