Do you have a smartphone? There’s some news for you today. Opera Software today announced that they will be demonstrating Opera Mobile 9.5 at Mobile World Congress 2008 (February 11-14, Barcelona). There is also a video called “Opera Mobile 9.5 Guided Tour” which tells more about new Opera Mobile 9.5 features and demonstrates them. The following video also features a funny speed comparison test: “Opera Mobile 9.5 vs. Internet Explorer Mobile”. And now… Features.

So what’s new?

It’s Faster

Opera Mobile 9.5 is now using Opera’s Presto rendering engine which handles web pages incredibly fast, and yes, it’s really fast.

Widgets

Those tiny little programs are now supported by Opera Mobile 9.5.

Other features include:

Flash Support (Flash Lite 3)

The full richness of Web 2.0 services using AJAX

Intuitive user interface

Tabbed browsing

Improved text wrap

Page overview, zooming and panning

Landscape mode

Save Web page for future offline access

Call phone number from Web page

Send link as SMS/MMS

Send image as SMS/MMS

Small Screen Rendering™

Password manager

Web address input auto-completion

History and bookmarks

Copy text

Opera Mobile 9.5 will be available on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux, as both a standalone browser and as a SDK.

“Opera Mobile is the result of Opera’s unwavering commitment to a vision that puts a true Web experience in the hands of mobile users,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.

Opera Mobile Page.

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