For all you folks who are on Windows Mobile devices and love the Opera web browser, today is your lucky day.  The beta of version 10 of the browser is out and available for download.

The new features:

• New interface that makes it easy to use and navigate.
• A new Speed Dial that lets you have your most accessed sites available at the click of a button.
• Tabbed browsing for having multiple sites open at the same time.
• A password manager to save those web site passwords.
• Touchscreen or keypad navigation.
• Save images to show folks offline later.
• Opera Turbo to offload your page rendering to one of Opera’s servers, and reduce your data costs.
• Compatibility for sites, like the desktop version, so you can view any site instead of ones just designed for mobile browsing.
• Smoother scrolling on for  your web site viewing pleasure.

Best feature, it’s 100%  free! Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile is available as a free download at www.opera.com/mobile/ or m.opera.com/mobile/ (for phone download).

Thanks to JKOntheRun for the news!

Once you’ve use the iPhone’s Safari browser, all other mobile browsers (and even some desktop ones) seem barely usable. The Safari browser is that good. Yes, after using an iPhone exclusively for two years I have found that trying to browse on the Blackberry Bold is, at best, an unpleasant experience. Sure, it works, but that’s about all I can say for it.

Now, Opera has released a new version of their mobile browser — Opera Mini5 beta. I’ve been using it this morning, and I have to say… it’s not bad. In fact, it’s actually pretty good. No, actually, it is VERY good. In my opinion it still isn’t in the same league as the iPhone’s Safari browser, but it does have some excellent features. In fact, a few are BETTER than the iPhone’s. With password management, tabbed browsing, “speed dialing” for favorites and more, I can safely say that, at least in my initial look, this is the second best mobile browsing experience I’ve had.

Opera really has a contender here!

Here is a quick look via Cnet

If you want to try Opera Mini 5 beta out, visit the address m.opera.com/next using your phone’s default Web browser.

Opera, maker of the Opera web browser, has just announced Opera Unite – a feature that turns your web browser into a web server with one click. It’s hard to categorize, but the description makes it sound like a mash up of P2P, social networking, file transfer, internet relay chat, instant messaging and cloud-based technologies. Which, I think, basically means that they want to run the internet off of your computer.

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The word is just in that Opera Mini version 4.2 has gone final for the Android platform. Visit the Android Market to grab your copy.

Here’s a changelog from the beta version:

Now you can upload and download files through Opera Mini and save pages for offline viewing
Videos will be redirected to the system’s video player
Double tap now works for zooming in and out
Inline URL entry instead of using native input
Fixed password text entry to hide characters
Fixed problems with exiting application when back button was pressed
Improved trackball speed
All internal pages, like the start page, now have font size extra large for easier navigation

Opera Blog and video from ZDNET/ Matt Miller