The mobile browser named “Best Windows Mobile Browser” by Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine in 2007, starts off 2008 with its newest version: Opera Mobile 9.5. Although you can’t get your hands on it yet, mobile phone manufacturers are expected to include the software on their next round of devices (hopefully that means updating existing devices as well.) Among the new features in Opera Mobile 9.5 are: a password manager, history, calling a phone number directly off of a web page, downloading pages for offline use, and tabbed browsing. It will even support Opera widgets. Opera’s intention is to bring a more desktop-like browsing experience onto the smart phone.

Opera has always strived to use their mobile browsers to present the web more and more like it is on a laptop or desktop PC. With each new release they come closer and closer to bridging that gap as best as possible, and Opera Mobile 9.5 follows the trend.

Some of the features in Mobile 9.5 could be found in Opera’s other mobile browser, Opera Mini, but rather than using server-side resources for processing, Opera Mobile 9.5 uses the higher processing capabilities of today’s smart phones to do it all on the device itself. Maybe that’s why according to Opera, Mobile 9.5 is much faster than Internet Explorer’s mobile version.

The new version uses Opera’s Presto rendering engine to speed up page loads. It is especially effective on pages that make heavy use of common, but typically mobile-unfriendly languages like JavaScript and Ajax, doing a better job at presenting the web like it was intended.
You can expect to see Mobile 9.5 on Linux, Windows Mobile, and UIQ.

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