Opera has released a major update to is web browser for Android and Symbian, as well as a minor update to its iOS web browser. Opera Mobile 12 for Android and Symbian includes a wide range of support for improved HTML5 features, with the Android version getting the lion’s share of new features. Among other things, Opera Mobile 12 for Android can now allow websites… Read more »

Opera has rolled out new versions of its two web browsers for Google Android. Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 are both available from the Android Market. The new browsers add a number of new features including support for Google voice search, Google AutoComplete, and “intelligent domain suggest.” All told, they make the process of entering a URL or search query a little faster…. Read more »

Opera has released updated versions of its mobile browsers smartphones. Opera Mobile 11  is available for Android, Symbian, and MeeGo, while Opera Mini 6 supports BlackBerry as well. So what’s new in Opera Mobile 11 and Mini 6… and why does the company offer two browsers? In a nutshell, Opera Mobile is a full-featured browser with its own rendering engine and support for JavaScript, HTMl5…. Read more »

The Opera Mobile web browser for Android is speedy, customizable, and has a few nifty features like Opera Link technology which lets you synchronize your settings with the desktop version of Opera. But there are a few things Opera Mobile doesn’t currently support, including Adobe Flash and HTML5 video support. Now it looks like both of those things are on the way. In a blog… Read more »

Opera has released a version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian S60 phones. The mobile web browser has a new Javascript engine, improved support for HTML5, support for geolocation, and Opera’s “Speed Dial” section which lets you create a start page with thumbnail icons for your most frequently visited bookmarked web pages. According to the release notes, even though Opera 10.1 has gone final for… Read more »

Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Google Android wasn’t supposed to be available until tomorrow, but it looks like the download link went live for a while today. I can’t find it at the moment, but the folks at Android Life snagged the installer and posted it online. Update: Opera Mobile beta is now available as a free download from the Android Market. The browser has… Read more »

Opera has announced that the Opera Mobile web browser will be available for Google Android on November 9th. We already knew the company was working on an Android version of the app, but now we have the release date. Opera Mobile is already available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices. Opera Mobile differs from the Opera Mini web browser which is already available for… Read more »

Opera software offers several different versions of its web browsers. There’s the desktop version, which is a full featured browser that offers bookmark and settings synchronization, tabs, and support for web standards. There’s the popular Opera Mini app for mobile phones which offers speedy page load times thanks to remote server compression technology that pre-processes data before sending it to your phone. And then there’s… Read more »

Another day, another mobile software release from the folks behind the Opera web browser. Yesterday the team launched Opera Mini 5.1 for Google Android. Today Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian Series 60 phones is ready for download. While Opera Mini is designed to improve page load speeds by offloading some of the page rendering to Opera’s servers, Opera Mobile runs entirely on your mobile device…. Read more »

For the last 10 years, Microsoft has been shipping its mobile operating systems with mobile versions of Internet Explorer. But as mobile web browsers go, the Internet Explorer tends to be sluggish and up until recently, the browser was hard to navigate with your fingers, instead relying on stylus input. But Internet Explorer isn’t the only game in town. There are a number of popular… Read more »