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After a brief delay on the availability date, Opera has released the beta version of Opera Mobile 9.5. While the new version is currently still listed as beta, the additional features should make it a worthwhile download.

Opera Mobile 9.5 is available as a free download for Windows Mobile based smartphones and offers a “true web experience.“ Features include pan and zoom, the ability to save web pages or images for offline viewing and an improved user interface. Version 9.5 also has improved standards support as well as just having been made faster overall as compared to the previous version 8.65.

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While the whole mobile phone industry is busy with the hype built up by the release of the iPhone 3G, HP has quietly made available its new Windows Mobile smarthphone, the HP iPaQ 910. This smarthphone which has a striking resemblance to a Palm Treo is now available for $499.99 at HP’s website.

Like we said before, the iPaQ 910 is loaded with high-end features including a 2.4-inch touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA for connecting to the web at 7.2 Mbps, 3.0-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, built-in Google Maps and GPS, 128MB of RAM, and a 416 MHz Marvell PXA270 processor.

The iPaQ 910 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and is loaded with various Microsoft programs including Office Mobile, Office Outlook Mobile and Internet Explorer Mobile.

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Now that Windows Mobile 6.1 is officially out, its time we start finding out when to expect current 6.0 devices to get an upgrade. Sprint has plans to upgrade all of their current Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphones during the “summer of 2008.“ The current Windows Mobile 6.0 lineup include the Samsung Ace, Motorola Moto Q9c as well as the HTC Touch and Mogul. In addition to the current devices receiving updates, smartphones will begin to ship with Windows Mobile 6.1 pre-installed during the “second half of 2008,“ which will include a “new Palm Treo.“

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