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 ...

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...

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 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...

Get your hands on the toted “better-than-safari-mobile” experience this July. That’s dynamic zooming, text resizing, and an ultra fast, non-proxy surfing experience. I’m really glad this software is out there, and I think Safari could really learn a thing or two from Opera on the zooming end. I love the way that Opera’s text just gets bigger as you zoom in and re-formats itself to fit the screen. Fantastic! So set reminders for this mid July, folks! News from jkOnTheRun. ...

Digia has made a new browser for the UIQ flavor of Symbian, which is fully controllable using the UIQ touch screen. The browser should do very well, as it is based off the popular, and very powerful WebKit rendering engine. WebKit is used in browsers like Safari, Mobile Safari as is on the iPhone, The Android browser, the default browser on S60 devices, and is open source and used in many applications to render HTML. The default browser included on UIQ devices is Opera, which is anything but bad. It is very functional, but it has other non touch enabled devices to think about. All modern UIQ ...