From the official Opera Mobile Blog

Some things in life don’t go according to plan — at least not in software development. We knew when we announced a release date before we finished development that a showstopper bug might be found that could alter the actual date we release the beta.

As you can imagine, we encountered a few bugs last week that we needed to fix before we launch. Our engineering team worked through the weekend to fix the bugs. Even though our release is a beta, we’d rather spend the extra time to fix them, thus giving you a better experience. The fixes are almost complete now, but we need two more days to run the build through our quality assurance testing. The new launch date is now set for the 17th.

We’re disappointed to delay, but fixing these bugs will improve the experience with our beta and let you fully test the browser.

Most of the comments at the blog were a lot less angry than I was expecting. There are some die-hard fans that have been waiting a year or more for this release, so it’s no wonder that some tension follows each delay reported at the blog. Good thing the latest delay was only two days… but we’ll see what happens on the 17th. Keep your fingers crossed.