Opera Launches Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta

Opera Software has released a beta version of the long-awaited Opera Mobile 9.7 mobile app to the public. The new version promises much faster rendering, due to the company's proprietary Opera Turbo and Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engines. The new app also supports Opera Widgets, and compresses pages by up to 80 percent on the server side before delivering them to handsets.