Opera Mobile landing in Android Market soon -- with hardware acceleration!

Hardware acceleration seems to be the one feature all the cool kids are working feverishly to implement in their browsers right now. And we're not just talking desktop browsers, either -- Opera has announced that Opera Mobile for Android will be hardware accelerated when it arrives in the Android Market.

As Opera's Aleksander Aas puts it, hardware acceleration in Opera Mobile "allows us to have a more fluid interaction with the phone." Opera Mobile will also feature pinch-to-zoom on Android, and perhaps most importantly, the browser is going to run on all versions of Android -- not just 2.1+. That's excellent news, considering that about 30% of Android users are still running slightly behind.

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