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Opera will announce Opera Mobile 9.7 supporting Turbo compression technology at the CTIA expo next week. Turbo is Opera’s answer to slow internet speeds and also saves bandwidth by compressing the data up to 80%. In addition to Turbo, the new Opera Mobile 9.7 is equipped with Presto 2.2 rendering engine, 100% Acid 3 test, better standards support, hardware acceleration, OpenGL ES, Google Gears and compatible with web technologies like Ajax and Flash.

Opera also released a labs version of Opera 10 Desktop with Turbo. To learn how Turbo works, click here.

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