Opera Mobile 10 arrives on Windows Mobile

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 18 Nov 2009 at 09:25

Opera has launched a beta version of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile-based smartphones.

According to the company, Opera Mobile 10 has been optimised for touchscreens with a simplified interface that includes a virtual keyboard and the usual raft of pan, pinch and zoom controls.

Despite simplifying the interface, the company claims the browser still squeezes in the majority of features from its desktop cousin.

The browser offers tabbed browsing, a password manager and Opera's Speed Dial homepage, which displays thumbnail views of the user's nine most visited sites when they open a new tab.

The browser also features Opera's much-touted Turbo mode, which improves browsing speed through server-side compression of web pages.

“We are unifying our products, so that users get the same experience, no matter the device or which particular Opera browser they are using,” says Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive of Opera. “With Opera Mobile 10, we are raising the expectations of how a mobile browser should perform."

Opera Mobile 10 comes as Microsoft gears up to deliver the first details of Internet Explorer 9 at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.