Looking to speed up browsing on the Symbian platform, Opera Software released this week Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian/Series 60 phones, offering faster JavaScript performance, the company said.

Version 10.1 for Symbian offers just-in-time compilation to the Carakan JavaScript engine, which also drives the Opera desktop browser. The upgraded mobile browser performs nine times faster than Opera Mobile 10.0 on the SunSpider JavaScript test, Opera said. Also featured is geolocation, enabling Web services like maps and travel applications to recognize a location to provide a user with customized content. Users can choose whether or not Opera Mobile shares their position.

"Opera Mobile 10.1 today brings the best mobile browsing experience to the world's most popular smartphone platform," said Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera, in a statement released by the company.

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