Opera recently released its widgets SDK for the forthcoming Opera 9.5 browser. Opera licenses its browser to consumer electronics OEMs and phone manufacturers. For example, all Symbian UIQ 3.3 devices have Opera 9.5 pre-installed and hence support this application runtime. Also Opera 9.5 apparently supports Flash Lite 3.0. This opens up another way to distribute Flash Lite and web browser based mobile applications, similar to Nokia WRT.

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