"T-Mobile has chosen Opera on several phones to fulfill the promise of their Web'n'Walk offering, and we are happy to bring the unparalleled Opera Web experience to T-Mobile's customers," said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, as it was announced that T-Mobile has chosen the Opera browser on several phones including new T-Mobile SDA II Windows Mobile Smartphone (pictured) – making this the first commercial deployment of the Opera browser for the Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone platform, following its public release on June 30, 2005.

T-Mobile's SDA II sports a large (320x240 pixels) QVGA display and comes fully loaded with all the typical Windows Mobile applications such as e-mailing, Mobile Office and a media player in addition to the Opera Web browser.

"Opera 8 for Windows Mobile offers Smartphone users more speed, smooth usability and rich content display as they access the full Internet, creating a Web experience unlike any other available for these devices," von Tetzchner continued. "The browser supports all major Web standards, including CSS2, DOM 2 and JavaScript."

Based on Opera's new core code, Opera 8 for Windows Mobile also includes the latest version of Opera's unique Small-Screen Rendering which dynamically reformats Web pages to fit the width of any screen, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling.

T-Mobile's "Web'n'Walk" is an initiative to grow data services into a mass market by giving people unrestricted access to the full Internet and Web-based services on their mobile phones.

Opera Software's existing partners include a star-studded lineup of mobile companies including IBM, Nokia, Sony, Motorola, Adobe, Macromedia, Symbian, Canal+Technologies, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Sharp, Motorola Metroworks, MontaVista Software, BenQ, Sendo and AMD.