This is great news for Windows Mobile users. I’ve had my hands-on the Opera 9.5 with an HTC Touch Diamond, during its launch in South Africa, and in my opinion, it was an incarnation of a PC web browser on a phone. Having it for other Windows Mobile phones is just excellent, although I don’t know if it will work on phones that have WM versions other than v6.1.

There are versions for phones with QVGA resolution (240×320) and VGA resolution (640×480), so there you go, a great variety of editions for a web browser that supports Flash Lite 3 and widgets.

There are still few bugs:

• Keyboard pop-ups with flash player installed.
• Video playback still slow with flash player.
• Limit paragraph cannot be turned off.

But better than the bugs are the features, such as:tabbed browsing, age overview, zooming and panning, landscape mode, ability to save web page. A video demonstrating the features is available at Opera’s website.

A list features is available after the jump. The download links, as well as operation detail is available at the thread of XDA developers forum, which is accessible from the link below.

Source: XDA developers via Tech[dot]blog

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