Opera has released the 5th version (beta) of its well-known mobile browser, Opera Mini. The new version is equipped with cool features available in Opera desktop version.

The new version brings you the innovative Tabbed-Browsing and Speed-Dial. The Speed-Dial feature is not the usual one that you find in the older versions (version 4 and older). It has improved a lot, showing you the Speed-Dials in slots with a thumbnail. Tabbed-Browsing should be given 5 stars! If you are busy Facebook-ing on one tab, you can tweet on Twitter on the other and scrap your Orkut friends on the next tab. Switching between tabs is no big deal and it gives you a smooth switching with a smooth animation (just like the Windows Taskbar). Opera 5 also gives you a smooth scrolling for the whole interface.

Opera claims that its 5th version has the following cool features

• Easy to Use / More User Friendly – Powerful User Interface
• Optimizing page content for both touch and keypad phones
• Faster loading time – Pages are compressed by up to 90% before it is sent to the phone
• Ubercool Tabbed Browsing
• User Interface for both Touch and Keypad phones
• Find in Page – Find texts in a page
• Password Manager – Store your passwords so you don’t have to type it again
• Speed Dial as slots with Thumbnail
• Power Scrolling

Get your version of Opera mini by pointing your Desktop browser to opera.com/mini/next/ (or) visit m.opera.com/next on your mobile’s default browser.