Today, Opera has released a silent update for Opera Mini 5. What does Silent means here? Ideally, a silent release is one which caters for small bug fixes and does not incorporate any major changes. But here, I guess without much hoopla which Opera has been doing lately. Anyhow, What does this update include?

If you are the one who likes using antique mobile device – like say running on Windows Mobile 2003, here’s some good news for you. Developers at XDA-forums have managed to run Opera Mini 5 on Windows Mobile 2003. Yeah, we know IE on Windows Mobile 2003 sucks big time.

Google has added voice search option on the new version of Google Maps 4.1 released yesterday for Symbian and Windows phone devices.

Porting Android 2.1 on Android 1.6 devices was okay but these developers at Xda forum have got more nasty but for good. Developer nick- named “klinux” has posted Android 2.1 ROM complete with HTC Sense for WVGA / VGA devices. Now this might not sound exciting at the start, but this is for flashing your Windows Mobile device. And it works!!

Here’s a theme to convert to mask your Windows mobile 6.x to Windows phone 7. The best part is, the theme isn’t heavy on phone at all.

The calendar app on your phone is not enough to remind you about upcoming birthdays and anniversaries. Manila Birthday generates a list of all contacts with an existing birthday / anniversary. It calculates the age and the list can be used to create calendar entries.

Remember Swype? Yeah the same Mobile input technology in which Nokia invested long time ago. Even though the technology is really that famous and also not implemented on as many mobile devices as it should be, similar input software for Windows phone classic, Symbian, Android and iPhone is now available under the name SlideIT.

Since F1 Season is almost here,DeepWeb Internetsolutions have brought out the 2010 version of their F1 windows mobile solution:

Opera today launched a native windows mobile Opera Mini 5 beta client  for all the Windows Mobile 5.x and 6.x based handsets.

SKTools for Windows Mobile recently received an update to version 4.5.1.3 and it brings several new features and tweaks.