Opera Software today said that it has rebuilt its Opera Mobile Widgets to support almost any handset and thereby enabling handset manufacturers to incorporate web-based content and services on to their mobile phone models.

The new widget platform developed by Opera, makes use of the company’s UI framework which was developed to help operators and manufacturers efficiently distribute a single browser UI across a wide range of devices.

“Our new Widgets platform releases operators and manufacturers from the native application box and gives them the tools needed to develop Web-based content that is fun, useful and available to everyone,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. “By rebuilding our Opera Mobile Widgets Manager with our cross-platform UI framework, we are able to help our customers deliver a better, more unified user experience on nearly any mobile phone.”

The widget platform is based on open standards.