“At next week’s CTIA Wireless Show, Opera Software will be announcing the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, Opera’s breakthrough compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube)”

I’m a fan of Opera when it’s pre-loaded on my devices, however I’ve yet to have the ambition to go out and download it to install. Opera Mobile 9.7 though may be tempting to download as we get ever closer to the “real” internet on the “really small” screen.

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“At next week’s CTIA Wireless Show, Opera Software will be announcing the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, Opera’s breakthrough compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube)”

I’m a fan of Opera when it’s pre-loaded on my devices, however I’ve yet to have the ambition to go out and download it to install. Opera Mobile 9.7 though may be tempting to download as we get ever closer to the “real” internet on the “really small” screen.

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“One of the most common questions we are asked on this blog is “When will this be available for my phone?”. Well for all you Windows Mobile fans the answer is “now” for the Google Mobile App. Try it out by downloading it from http://m.google.com/search on your mobile phone.”

If you’re a googleholic and want more Google on your device, go ahead and download it now. The video looks pretty sweet, I think I’ll probably wander over and give it a shot. What about you?

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“In the age of streaming everything, mobile browsers are definitely not having an easy time keeping up. At best, streaming a video to an OEM smartphone browser is a complete mess; at worst, it’s impossible. Enter Skyfire, a third-party browser we’ve covered here on BGR before and the best way to describe it might be to quote the company’s homepage pitch: “Watch any video, listen to any music, stay connected with friends, browse whatever you want.” Of course that’s a bit of a reach but Skyfire does multimedia processing on the server side, opening up a whole new range of sites and services that become accessible – Hulu, YouTube, Last.fm, the Hype Machine and so on. Skyfire today announced the availability of version 0.9 of its mobile browser which includes tons of tweaks and new functionality”

SkyFire has a new release out which our colleagues over at The Boy Genius Report seem to be interested in as much as anyone else. With news this week of Fennec moving into “milestone” release, it’s been a busy week for browsers. Head on over to SkyFire’s website and grab a copy for yourself, or head to the Boy Genius Report and see some of the features listed.

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“Attempts to keep the most hotly anticipated consumer electronics devices under wraps these days are getting more and more futile. It’s hard enough for companies to control disgruntled employees and leaks in the international supply chain, stir in a giant government organization and things quickly unravel. Case in point: T-Mobile’s HTC Dream, widely believed to be the world’s first Android handset. After Engadget loosed the Dream from its FCC constraints on the 18th of August, HTC contacted the agency on the 19th with a request to use a less detailed diagram for the FCC label placement. Fortunately for us they complied, giving us what can only be construed as official measurements in the process. The newly unveiled 115 x 55-mm dimensions tell us that it beats the iPhone 3G in terms of length and width but is almost certainly thicker than the iPhone due to the Dream’s sliding QWERTY”

Everybody has news on the Dream, whether you want to hear it or not. Engadget speculates repeatedly (here and here) on it’s dimensions via FCC documents. And the above video with the Darth Vader like breathing? Well it’s probably the lord of the Sith playing with a Dream, if you’re to believe the hype surrounding it. I guess we’ll know more in coming days, but at this rate I have to let Dream information sit in my inbox for a day or two before posting to make sure it’s not changed, updated, debunked, or clarified. I wish this thing would just appear in the marketplace!

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“Sure, the Samsung i760 may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but there’s nothing like a little OS refresh and added functionality to breathe new life into an aging dinosaur. Originally scheduled for a June launch, Verizon has officially released the Windows Mobile 6.1 update for is i760 handset. There’s nothing as sexy as EV-DO Rev. A support in there, but if the following list of improvements don’t get you excited about your oddly-shaped slide out QWERTY mobile companion, then we’re pretty sure there’s no hope left for you”

ROM Updates are always exciting times. If you’re feeling like a change (and a re-setup of your phone), download the update for the i760 and enjoy the new features outlined in this Boy Genius article!

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