Opera Mini 4.2 beta is now available for testing, the application will be installed next to your other Opera Mini version(s), so there’s no need to delete anything before downloading the beta. Here are the new features added since Opera Mini 4.1: * Synchronize, edit and delete notes via Opera Link * 24 new languages * Better handling of RTSP, enabling more users to watch video * Skins are back (along with new skins) * “Accept” link at the end of the EULA (for BlackBerry users) Point your phones browser to: http://mini.opera.com/beta to download Opera Mini 4.2 beta Share and Enjoy: ...

For those of us who have been hoping, asking and waiting for for a mobile version of FireFox on BlackBerry or other mobile devices like symbian or windows mobile etc . Here’s another teaser, a Google Mobile Web Browser … Here’s what the Google Team has to say about their new Web Browser: "On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Goo...

Skyfire, a server-based web browser designed for mobile devices, is now in beta testing for the Symbian platform. Skyfire, like the popular Java-based browser Opera Mini, uses a remote server to render pages with the Gecko browser engine, then delivers the end result to the mobile client. Unlike ordinary mobile browsers, Skyfire supports Flash, Ajax, and Windows Media. The beta test is limited to select users in the United States. Share and Enjoy: ...

Opera Mobile 9.5 is off to a healthy start, but like all beta software, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta has its fair share of bugs that still need to be worked out. So, to keep up with their beta-users, Opera has released their first update for Opera Mobile 9.5 beta. The beta 1 update fixes an audio bug that turns off the notifications sounds. This particular update was apparently easy enough to roll out quick and dirty style, but more significant updates are going to take a bit more time. We have updated the beta1 with a fix for the (very annoying) bug that turned off the notification sounds. The n...

Popout Update: Verdict? Unfortunately, Not Good. If you’re thinking about installing, read through the comments first. How come every new big BB app is running into such teething problems!?! ** Officially announced for the BlackBerry today, Zumobi is a little hard to explain, a little hard to “get” from looking at a single screenshot, yet it is definitely cool and worth an install for anybody who considers themself to be a BlackBerry addict. Whether it’s worth keeping installed, you can let us know that in the comments! To download, on your BlackBerry visit http://g...

Popout Here’s the video of our hands-on with Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta. As promised, we tested in a Sprint Mogul. We left it stock, no memory optimizations on it, to try to get a good feel of how big a memory hog Opera Mobile would be. Verdict: it’s pretty darn greedy, but even so it seems to run pretty well. Here’s to hoping that this is a ‘beta’ issue. Co-WMExpert Phil Nickinson also writes in about Opera: Runs pretty well on my trusty 750 (even with EDGE only), but HOLY MEMORY HOG BATMAN! Might wanna suggest this, too, to move the cache to the storage card… ...

Opera Software announced that Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider, has selected the Opera Mini browser to deliver a better Web experience to its mobile phone customers. Opera Mini will be available for download over the air (OTA) on most Swisscom-operated phones in the near future. With Opera Mini, Swisscom customers can take advantage of the full Web on their mobile phones. Whether in need of a train schedule, a quick answer from Google or a friend fix on Facebook, Opera Mini is the vehicle to get Swisscom users to where they want to go. Opera Mini’s compression technology m...

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 comple...

When HTC Touch Diamond was reviewed , we noted that one of the most impressive features of the handset was its excellent web browser. The gesture support, text reformatting, and speed placed it on par with the likes of the iPhone’s Safari as one of the best mobile browsers experiences available to consumers. As it turns out, HTC is using a version of Opera’s Mobile 9.5 browser, software that was supposed to see a general public release by early July. Unfortunately, Opera has just announced that they have delayed the release of the browser until further notice July 17th. Apparently, the be...

French developer of Linux-based mobile software, Purple Labs, announced that it has completed its acquisition of the mobile client software business of Openwave Systems for about $32 million. Under the terms of the deal, Purple Labs has acquired the products, software code, patents and customer contracts of the Openwave business. The Linux mobile software developer will continue to invest in the browser and related technologies. For the quarter ending in March, Openwave had reported $11.1 million in revenues from software license fees and related engineering services. Openwave’s brow...