Opera today released a preview of Opera Mini 4.2, the newest version of the popular mobile Web browser. Opera Mini 4.2 beta provides a more personalized experience with its colorful selection of new skins, improved support for YouTube and other mobile video services on selected mobile phones. Improvements in Opera Link allow users to share notes between their mobile phones and PCs, in addition to their bookmarks and recently-visited URLs.

Other new features since Opera Mini 4.1 includes:

• Synchronize, edit and delete notes via Opera Link
• 24 new languages
• Better handling of RTSP, enabling more users to watch video. If your phone supports RTSP via Opera Mini, you should be able to play e.g. YouTube videos on your phone. These will not be played in Opera Mini, but by the media software in the device.
• Skins are back (along with new skins)
• “Accept” link at the end of the EULA (for BlackBerry users)

With this beta release, Opera celebrates Opera Mini being the browser of choice for more than 20 million unique monthly users worldwide. As part of the celebration, Opera Mini users in the United States and Asia-Pacific region can now experience faster browsing speeds, due to the addition of an Opera Mini server park in the United States.

Opera Mini 4.2 beta is a free download from www.operamini.com/beta/. Note that the beta installation will not remove your existing Opera Mini stable version.