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Opera has just announced the launch of the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, both available for free. The new versions allow users to enjoy desktop features like Opera Link and the Download Manager on their mobile devices.

Opera Link allows users to sync personal browser settings with the desktop version of Opera, plus all their connected devices, as well. Thus, Speed Dial, search engines and bookmarks will always be accessible. Download Manager will allow better control and extra speed for downloads on mobile phones.

The second beta release of both Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 brings a more polished look of the software, visual bookmarks (Speed Dial), tabbed browsing and more. With this evolution, Opera hopes to unify all products across all supported platforms. Opera Mini is proving to be a popular option, since almost 40 million people used the browser in October, according to official stats.

[via Opera]

It took an awfully long time for it to come to market, but today Verizon Wireless has begun selling the Samsung Omnia II in time for the busy Christmas shopping season. Verizon’s second Windows Mobile 6.5 device after the HTC Imagio, the Omnia II sports a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal memory expandable via microSD plus standard smartphone features like Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and EV-DO Rev. A. connectivity. Of course the Omnia II lacks the Imagio’s global roaming functionality, but honestly, after taking a look at that 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED display, it’s pretty hard to think about anything else. That is unless you can’t afford the $199.99 2-year contract price.

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You can find out all there is to know about Opera Mobile 10, available as a beta version for Windows Mobile, from the presentation video below. We’re dealing with an intuitive browser that handles touchscreen handsets perfectly:

Opera Mobile 10 uses an intuitive and comfy interface, with a very cool Speed Dial feature, allowing the user to access his favorite sites with a single click. The navigational bar from the lower side of the screen includes the options “Back”, “Forward”, “Reload”, “Tabs” and “Tools”, with the last one also allowing the user to access more options, like “Bookmarks”, “History”, “Find in page” and “Settings”.

The browser uses visual tabs, in order to manage the website you’ve already visited, with the advantage of seeing them as small thumbnails/previews. Opera Mobile 10 also provides support for zooming in, kinetic scrolling and it also includes Opera Turbo, that’ll save cash for people with expensive data plans, by compressing data.

[via wmpoweruser]