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 released a new version of Opera Mobile in the Play store. The changes are not massive, as indicated by the point increment in version number. However, they are still significant enough to make updating to the latest version worthwhile.

Opera Mobile 12 for Android is a significant update that one-ups Chrome for Android by adding support for an impressive number of HTML5 technologies as well as WebGL.

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

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.

Opera for Tablets, which will be demoed at CES 2011, is tailor-made for Android based tablets and netbook.

Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian is now available for download. The new release features superfast JavaScript rendering along with fancy features like Geolocation.

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.

Indepth review and benchmark of Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Android. Find out which is the fastest browser on Android.

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 Mobile 10.1 Beta for Symbian S60 introduces numerous performance improvements, along with support for geolocation.

Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 takes mobile web browsing to the next level by bringing desktop like browsing experience to your mobile phones.

Opera for iPhone will be added to the app store soon. However, don’t expect Apple to approve a better browser, Opera Mini to make it through the Apple App store approval process.

A review of Opera’s current position and a glimpse into Opera’s future plans.