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The AOL site is very limited in the information offered. It does sort of imply the Opera will work but does not specifically state so. the statement that "smart phones" will work ok may be a bit off based if all they consider is Apple phones or a limited selection of others.
My thought is to wait and see if the Opera works on the phone you have. The Opera app in the BB Appworld site does show your current phone and the 9900. So if it does work you can decide how you want to go and if not then it probably wont work on the 9900 either. To me this means AOL is just changing requirements for some other than stated reasons and may loose a lot of users and that may be what they are trying to do, dump the free email service. It may be better to move to another free email service such as ATT or Yahoo. they are also free and work very well.