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Most of you with ordinary mobile phones probably use OperaMini for browsing. Well, Opera has released a new beta of your favorite app, bumping the version to 4.2. You can download it here.

Some of the improvements over the previous builds include skins, faster performance, and YouTube video playback.

I guess Apple won't tolerate any competitive software on the iPhone. With this in mind, they've restricted the use of the Opera Mini on the handset, as it would compete directly with the Safari browser.

The Meridian Group, maker of the recently unveiled Fly E310 cell phone, announced that their device will come preloaded with the Opera Mini web browser, and will be available in the UK, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Opera has released the first BETA of its Opera Mobile 9.5 web browser, announced back in February. While it's an initial release, it will be buggy, but far more advanced than the browser you currently use on your touchscreen handset.

Some of the features include:

• Double-tap zoom;
• Landscape flip;
• Off-line page save;
• Tab-like browsing;
• Auto-URL complete;
• Google-search bar

Google Gears and support for Flash video are to be added later.

Though it should have been released today, the Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta browser was delayed until July 17th, according to an announcement on the Opera Blog. Reportedly, developers need some time to fix a number of bugs and to better test the application to ensure its smooth and bug-free operation.

This was taken from the Opera blog:

"As you can imagine, we encountered a few bugs last week that we needed to fix before we launch.

Opera announced that it plans to release the first public beta of its new mobile browser on July 15. The new Opera Mobile 9.5 takes advantage of the the same Presto rendering engine used on the desktop version. It is compatible with any Windows Mobile Pro or Symbian UIQ based device with minor differences, and will probably feature a new UI.

The new Opera Widgets SDK from Opera Software is a set of tools for creating cross device and cross platform applications that use standard web technologies.

The widgets created with the SDK will be compatible with the Opera 9.5 PC browser, as well as devices running Opera Mobile.

Opera Software has made available the final version of the Opera Mini 4.1. This version has the same features as the beta, but in a more stable package. Let's review them quickly:

• It's up to 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0;
• Quick address input thanks to URL completions support;
• The ability to save Web pages for off-line viewing;
• On-page word/phrase search;
• Integrated download manager

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Opera Mini, the popular Java mobile browser has been successfully ported to Google Android OS.

This was done by the lead developer for Opera Mini for Android known as MicroEmulator, who used the original Opera Mini code base and a wrapper capable of translating J2ME API calls into Android API calls.

Simple. :)

Opera Software announced today the availability of a new version of their Opera Mini browser.

The company claims that with the 4.1 beta users will be able to surf the web up to 50% faster. This version also offers new features like automatic URL completions, text search, the ability to save and view pages offline, and a built in download/upload manager.