Opera Mobile 9.7 is already available on Windows Mobile and Symbian, and is a pretty nice browsing platform, but so distant it hasn't been available on other smart phone platforms. Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner, told in an interview with PCMag.com today, that the browser might come to Google Android - though he didn't say when.

"Yes, we are currently working on an Android version," von Tetzchner said.

Opera Mobile is a matured browser that gives HTML pages on your device and supports widgets that dwell on your phone. Android and BlackBerry users right now are restricted to Opera Mini, a lighter-weight browser that reformats Web pages through Opera's servers to present them in a "mobile-friendly" format.



Android's own browser, based on WebKit, is very nice. Opera Mobile has a download manager, supple bookmark management, and is known to be fast. It'll be fascinating to see how it does against Google Android's browser.

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