Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web report analyzes the habits of Android smartphone users in India, which constitutes Opera Mini for Android’s largest market.

Opera Software gained 8 million new active users in January, including a sizable chunk of smartphone users, for their mobile web browsers.

Opera Software has updated Opera Mini for Apple devices keeping in mind the recently launched iOS 6. It features a bunch of iOS 6 related fixes and integration with the iOS 6 Facebook framework.

Opera Software is promising to make your Android smartphone even smarter with Opera Mini 7.5 for Android. The new Opera Mini for Android introduces the ‘Smart Page’, which gives you a birds-eye view of what’s happening.

Opera Mini 7 for basic phones introduces a social hub called Smart Page, which integrates Facebook, Twitter, Weather, News, and more.

Opera Mini 7 for Android introduces OpenGLES hardware acceleration, unlimited speed dials, and Android Beam support.

Opera Mini 7 preview release introduces social features to dumb phones through its new Smart Page feature, while improving performance and rendering on smartphones.

New age social media websites were the biggest gainers in 2011, according to Opera’s list of most popular mobile websites in 2011.

Opera Mobile 11.1 and Opera Mini 6.1 introduces auto-suggest (Google Suggest) and auto-complete (auto-complete).

Opera Mini has been banned from GetJar due to the bundling of Opera Mobile Store – a platform independent app store.

Opera Mobile Store is an app store that supports Android, Java, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Palm, and is available in more than 200 countries.

A quick look at Opera’s financial report for Q3, 2010, which highlights the number of users as well as revenues earned from various offerings.

The Nokia N8 has been criticized for its disastrous text input system and the slow inbuilt web browser. The inbuilt browser will become very slow if users try to load some heavy website on it. Along with this, the loading time take by the web browser is also very high.

In an official blog post, Opera has confirmed that they are working on Opera Mobile for Android. Opera Mobile will bring with it pinch-to-zoom support and hardware acceleration.

Opera Software has launched Open Mobile Ad Exchange – a new “cloud-based advertising on feature phones and smartphone”.