Opera Software confirms it’s Opera Mobile 9.5 that will run on the HTC Diamond

Now we officially know which browser HTC will use on its latest flagship smartphone, HTC Diamond. Yap, it’s the super-cool Opera Mobile 9.5 browser, which we already saw in action in Matt’s demo.

As you may already know, the latest version of Opera Mobile brings such features as tabbed browsing, improved text wrap, landscape mode, ability to call a phone number right from a web page, history, bookmarks, and copy text to clipboard. In addition, such things as save page for offline browsing, web address auto-complete and password manager make your think you’re not surfing the web on a mobile phone, but on a full-fledged desktop computer. Hence, HTC’s President and CEO Peter Chou’s comment: “We have worked very closely with Opera Mobile to deliver a feature set and browsing experience that is optimized for mobile, but viewed like it would on a PC.”

Now, it’s about time HTC send us a review unit. Who says Diamonds are girl’s best friends, only.