I am obviously NOT sitting in an IMAX theater, on the edge of my seat, watching The Dark Knight right now. I am still at work, trying to wrap a few things up and then leave for the weekend. But, I have to blog about Opera 9.5 Mobile (beta) for Windows Mobile first. It is really cool!

Watch a video preview here!

Opera 9.5 Mobile is the first really capable mobile browser for Windows Mobile, to compete with the iPhone Safari browser. It also comes with widgets, so you can do more than just bookmark web pages and have multiple tabs, and javascript and zoom and stuff! The video describes it all pretty well. We can’t all wait another year or two for a good version of Internet Explorer for WM. Opera Mobile is currently shipped on more than 100 million phones with many of the world’s top mobile OEMs and operators such as HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, and others, so it has a growing base and good support. (I believe the street price will be around $20-30, which is about what an app goes for on a mobile device these days.)

Features

• 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 Renderingâ„�
• Password manager
• Web address input auto-completion
• History and bookmarks
• Copy text
• Opera Widgets

You can download a free beta copy here!

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