Bored of the built in Nokia browser? Skyfire not holding up to the pressure? Opera Mini lacking some key features? Well then you’re in luck because the final version of Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian is out… and it’s FREE! Okay, I lied… it’s not the final version but it’s one step closer – Beta three of the long awaited Symbian browser has been released. Also it’s free, I didn’t lie about that.

So you may be asking, what does this browser offer that others don’t? Well there are many features of this product to feast your eyes upon.

These great features include;

• Speed Dial – A sort of “visual bookmark” system. As soon as you load up the browser you will be presented with little thumbnails of the sites you need to quickly access.
• Tabbed Browsing – With this you can actually browse more than one website at a time. Easily switch between tabs to find Facebook, Email, Twitter, BBC News, Thenokian97.com or whatever takes your fancy, just open a new tab and load a site – EASY!
• Faster Browsing – Not only does Opera Mobile claim to be faster at rendering pages, panning, zooming and “almost everything else” but it this version is also up to 50% faster than Beta Two! This is all thanks to Opera Turbo which can “compress Web pages up to 70%” – a handy feature for those will little or no data plan
• Opera Link – This is handy if you use Opera on your desktop/laptop/whatever as you can effortlessly sync all your bookmarks between devices.

Beta three comes with new features on top of Beta two and also packs in some bug fixes with improved stability and performance, what more could you ask for? It being free? Did I mention it was free? I think I did.

To check out more of the features that come with this version then go to http://www.opera.com/mobile/features/ and you’ll see things from kinetic scrolling, password managers, auto-completion, shortcuts and auto-rotation all the way over to developer tools such as Opera Dragonfly.

Any way, if you want to check out this awesome browser on your shiny N97 then head over to www.opera.com/mobile from your PC or m.opera.com/mobile from your mobile device.

Last but not least, as always with beta apps you have to wonder why they are in the testing phase. Well the answer is simple, IT LIKES THE RAMZ! Yes, this little beauty will munch away at your RAM like there is no tomorrow so check out the tips on here about how to keep your N97 running top notch.

Peace out Holmes!