Opera Mobile Web Browser Now Available in Beta for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Opera Software has released the much anticipated Opera Mobile 8.5 Web browser for Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Opera 8.5 beta runs on Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0, offering Opera's web surfing experience on the full range of Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices.

"Ever since we released Opera 8 for Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone in June 2005, people have been asking for Opera for their Pocket PCs," says Christen Krogh, VP Engineering, Opera Software. "We are very pleased to offer the latest version of Opera Mobile to Pocket PC owners, so they may finally have a proper Web experience on their devices."

Opera 8.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC supports all major Web standards, including CSS2, DOM 2 and JavaScript. Based on Opera's latest core code, Opera 8.5 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC includes Opera's rendering technology that dynamically reformats Web pages to fit the width of any screen size.