Opera has released Opera Mini 5 Beta with awesome list of improvements compared to it’s previous major version, Opera Mini 4.2. You should give this a try if you are not an iPhone or Safari user and it will blow up your mind away.

The best feature I like so far is tabbed browsing and improved user interface designed for both touch screen and keypad based devices. The Speed Dial now has set of visual bookmarks you see when you open a new tab and lots of other features to make your mobile browsing experience more interesting.

If you want to try Opera Mini 5 beta out, visit the address m.opera.com/next using your phone’s default Web browser.

Google unveiled an experimental news reading service called Google Fast Flip, It aims to accelerate the news browsing process by caching Web pages and presenting them more quickly through a more user-friendly interface. 

Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

Try Fast Flip now at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ on web, iPhone, and Android device.

Having this C64 emulator for Manomio from Appstore bring back my childhood memories after school we used to play games for endless hours. I can’t wait to play my favorite childhood games like Donkey Kong, Mission Impossible and tons of them which I can’t remember.

This application finally got approved by Apple for the second time and final approval was granted when BASIC disabled.

The $4.99 C64 emulator costs $4.99 and includes 5 games: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck, and Jack Attack. Additional separately sold game packs will be coming soon. With the C64 emulator approved, Manomio is also clear to pursue further licensing deals and they have said they are actively working on adding new titles.

Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator is available for download at Appstore. [$4.99]

Finally the Facebook 3.0 is now available to download from Apple’s appstore. The  Facebook app still shows 2.5 version on appstore. Uninstall the app on your iPhone/iPod Touch and reinstall it here.

What’s new in the app? Joe Hewitt, the developer of the Facebook iPhone App, actually has a list of new features and improvements posted last week. Here’s what’s in store for you when you open up Facebook 3.0:

The LG Touchscreen Watchphone (LG-GD910) will first go on sale in the UK in its Bond Street Station shop on Thursday, 27th August. Available for a limited time only, consumers will be able to purchase the must have gadget of the year at the exclusive price point of £500.

Available on a first-come-first-serve basis, and one device per customer to those who arrive in person at the store – the handmade 3G+ watchphone will guarantee those fortunate enough to purchase one that they’ll turn heads on the high street. The device’s slick scratch resistant touch-screen interface makes writing text messages easy, while an in-built speaker and MP3/AAC player lets you listen to the Essential James Bond theme album when you’re imprisoned in a fake volcano or battling with Jaws.

More information on Orange website.

Swebapps is new service which allows the small and medium sized business to publish their own iPhone applications and providing them a new approach to market their services and promotions to mobile users (currently they are supporting iPhone) and soon to launch on Palm Pre and Androids.

The website list all the available categories and how the business can select their iPhone apps such as selection of buttons and what features they wish to add such as map, contacts, menu or services etc. It also allow the user to use the social media to post information across on Facebook or Twitter. The model is based on packages with prices starting from $ 200 to $ 400 and there is one time setup-cost of $ 50 and $ 25 monthly hosting fees. Additionally for $ 10 the business can add ‘App Tracker’ which gives the analytics of the consumer behaviour such as what has been pressed more, when was the application downloaded etc.

The process requires Apple approval once this has been done the businesses can upload or update any information in real time. The developers are soon to add up advertisements on its app and also launching this service to BlackBerry, Palm Pre and Androids by early 2010.

Sanjeev Agrawal (former Head of Google Product Marketing) is a new CEO of young German start-up based in München. Aloqa is a context-aware application which proactively notifies you of interesting places, events and your FB friends near you. Instead of searching you simply see your network of friends, places and event of your interest, your favorite hotspots and much more.

Aloqa’s platform for MLS is based on LBS via Cell ID, GPS, WLAN and GSM fingerprinting, making a seamless transition between those technologies and hybrid positioning as well along with Push notification for location-triggered events.

The app is currently available for  download Android in US and Germany and it’s free to download and for also offers SDK for developers to build their apps as well as publishing platform for publishers and advertisers.

Mesaib Labs released a new desktop client, Hummingbird for cross platform desktop which comes in different versions. Grasp ahold of the full potential of the social networking phenomenon.

Hummingbird II – Lite or PRO Editions

Hummingbird Lite or PRO is an upgrade from the FREE Client version. By upgrading to Lite or PRO your business can automate the following and unfollowing practices that usually result in headache soonafter the start of using Twitter.

There are many things to know about when following or managing your network, and the developers of Hummingbird have done it all. With an upgrade to Lite or PRO you will be able bypass all of the hassle of having to study & remember the important things. Simply leave it to the software to do the dirty work.

Hummingbird II – Stealth Edition

Hummingbird Stealth is an exclusive release compiled with all the tools and addons a master marketer will need. No need to purchase additional plugins or go searching for the right Twitter tool. Hummingbird Stealth is the one package that does it all, plus some.

Download Beta here or watch the YouTube video here.

Sony Ericsson ”Rachael” is the codename of the Swedes’ first Android-based mobile phone, that is expected to be announced later this year. It will be part of Sony Ericsson’s series of XPERIA products. We’ve got our hands on internal documents about the phone, that seems to have the potential to be a sales success.

The phone is based on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform, that enables processor speeds up to 1 GHz, and HSPA-speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. This platform will also sport great 3D graphics capabilities.

The phone’s built-in camera is an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus. There’s also a 3.5 mm jack connector as well as a mini-USB connector at the top of the phone. The touch screen appears to be rather large, and according to our sources its diagonal measures no less than 4 inches. As of now, we have no word on the screen resolution, but it’ll probably end up at 800 x 480 pixels (WVGA) or so.

Courtesy of Mobile.nu

Reincubare’s  iPhone Backup Extractor is an easy-to-use program to extract files from an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G s iTunes backup. It is useful for restoring AppStore applications, SMS histories, contact lists, call histories, photographs and other data that might otherwise be inaccessible.

The backup extractor is free for non-commercial use, although registered users enjoy a number of benefits including faster restores, restoration of multiple files at a time, and automatic export to CSV (Windows only). Commercial (ie. business users) users must register.

Download the free iPhone Backup Extractor here

• iPhone Backup Extractor 1.0.0.12 (24th June 2009)
  Changes:Now allows for restore of calendar to CSV.

Older releases available here.