If you are an Android smartphone owner who’s been patiently waiting for the next Opera Mini browser to hit the Android platform, your wait is over as according to an article over on Cnet, Opera Software has released the latest version of Opera Mini 5 browser.

Opera Mini 5 Beta features an updated interface along with a new “speed dial” homescreen which delivers a thumbnail view of the user’s most visited websites, and also a first for Opera Mini the support of tabs.

Opera Mini 5 Beta is virtually the same as Opera Mobile 10 which is for Windows and Symbian phones and is also available on BlackBerry, and now thanks to this new release, Opera Mini 5 Beta comes to the Android Platform.

So if you are hankering after Opera Mini 5 Beta check out the Android Market or point your handset towards www.opera.com/mini/next/ and get downloading.