Opera Mobile

We announced the Opera Platform SDK in connection with the W3C's MWI event in London on November 15. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should!

Opera Platform SDK is free to download and enables you to quickly create AJAX type applications for mobile phones. These "widgets" are small applications that are directly accessible from your phone, and can get you info on anything from the local weather forecast to your e-bay bidding status or when the next bus leaves - with one click. Opera Platform uses open standards Web technologies to develop advanced applications for mobile phones quickly and cheaply. Read more about it here.

We also have an Opera Platform competition going where you can a Nokia N70.

Opera's latest edition of its renowned Web browser for Symbian S60, Opera Mobile(TM) 8.5 is listed as "Application of the Week" by both Nokia and Symbian this week:

Opera 8 for Symbian S60 brings the convenience of desktop Web browsing to S60 devices. This new version allows mobile users to browse large-format Web sites and preserves the original site’s design and layout to a remarkable degree. Mobile users can now access their favorite Web sites without the frustration or tedious delays of traditional mobile browsers.

Nokia.com: Read full review
S60.com: Read full review

Opera Mobile(TM) 8.5 for Series 60 has been received very well by the industry, the media and end-users across the world since its launch on November 14

Just want to say a massive cheers to the whole Opera team for taking on board all the feedback, and making a browser that is simply great...

- (my.opera.com forum member)

Opera is the best mobile browser I have used, if you haven't tried it out already do so. It's great.

- Jon Gales, mobiletracker.com review, Nov 14 2005

Read more or download Opera Mobile(TM) 8.5 for Symbian S60 can be downloaded from here

The Opera browser is used by the major handset manufacturers in the world and is shipped on mobile phones from, among others, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Hitachi, Casio and Motorola. T-Mobile has opted for the Opera browser on several of the phones in their Web'n'Walk offering, demonstrating not only the quality of the Opera browser, but also that mobile Web access has now become a major selling point also in Europe and America, as it has been for a while in Japan. Opera has positioned itself for this development for years, and we are in a very good position now that mobile Web is starting to take off. We'll roll out Opera Mini globally soon, enabling full Internet access on most "normal" phones on the market, and that's just the beginning... Stay tuned and surf Opera!