Today, Opera Software released the final versions of the world’s most popular mobile Web browsers, Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. Now, nearly any mobile phone can support an Opera-driven Web experience, complete with unmatched speed, style and cost savings. Simply go to m.opera.com/ to download it directly to your phone today.

Today’s release puts the finishing touches on the Opera mobile-browsing duo. The focus is on delivering the best Internet experience on nearly any mobile phone, along with a unified look and feel and innovative favorite features, such as Speed Dial, password manager and tabbed browsing.

“Keeping in mind the needs and wants of our 50+ million users, we have emphasized speed, desktop-like functionality and data savings in our mobile browsers. Today, we have made it even easier for everyone to surf, search and socialize on the Web,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.

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In December 2008, Vodafone bought the Swedish navigation company Wayfinder,  for SEK 240 million. Since then, both Nokia and Google launched their free  navigation services for mobile phones, which prompted Vodafone to give up hope of recovering their investment.

- We could not charge for something that others gave away for free, “says Anna Cloke, spokesperson for Vodafone UK

90 people will lose their jobs, including 55 in Malmö, Sweden. The other operations are in London and Romania. The staff were informed yesterday.

[Thx Marcus]

In this video, the guys at PocketNow.com takes a look at the new flash implementation of Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3. To download Opera Mobile directly, simply visit m.opera.com/mobile using your phone’s default Web browser.

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Remember the java based GPS app Nav4All? Well today they went public with some bad news regarding their GPS services Read the press release after the break…

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Opera has published the November statistics for  Opera mini, one of the worlds most popular mobile web browser. The number of Opera Mini users more than doubled — from about 16.4 million in November 2008 to 41.7 million in November 2009. This increase shows that their prediction of accelerated growth of the mobile Web has come true.  More stats after the break…

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Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones.

With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones.

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This Twitter application written in Java works with almost all the phones that are available today. The simplest way to install is to open your Java-enabled phone’s web (or WAP) browser and type the following URL: tw.j1ck.com

Features:

• All standard functionality: timeline, @mentions, DMs, favorites, following/followers, follow/unfollow, profiles… and of course tweeting!
• Simple, no-nonsense interface. Up/Down/Click and using a menu is all you need to know.
• Quick Reply / Retweet / Favorite in each tweet
• Trending Topics / Saved searches support
• Multiple-account support.
• Twitpic support: you’ll see the picture without having to navigate over there
• Camera support! Take a snapshot from the tweeting form itself and have it automatically uploaded to Twitpic. Great to share where you are in a moment.
• Pretty good support for touch-screen phones (we’re testing mainly on Nokia 5800 and Samsung F480)
• Support for QWERTY keyboard phones (Nokia E71 is currently our main testing device for this)

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This is a speed test between Skyfire for Windows Mobile and Opera Mini 5 for Java

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