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Opera Mini Mobile Browser Officially Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fingers-in-a-few-more-pies dept.

worb writes "The tiny mobile browser Opera Mini was officially released worldwide today. Opera is known for its PC and mobile browsers, but even the cell phone version Opera require more memory than most phones today are capable of. Opera Mini works by passing pages through Opera's servers to strip them down before they are displayed on the phone. Also, the Register has a story on how this actually means that Opera now offers a reason not to buy a smartphone, a market Opera currently has a strong foothold in."

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  1. Opera Mini: Screenshots and discussion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Screenshots here:
    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13423
    Interesting discussion here about how good Opera Mini really is or it is not:
    http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008770.htm l

  2. Re:Opera for Pocket PC by Reapman · · Score: 5, Informative

    By downloading the Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PC edition http://opera.com/products/mobile/products/winmobil eppc/

    Note this is not the same as the mobile browser listed in the article... that one uses Java and will run on almost anything that uses Java. This one is actually an application written for the Pocket PC. I used the one that this slashdot article is talking about on my Palm Treo 600 (not for long tho, found it slow and too basic) For my new Axim x51v I use the Pocket PC version.

    As for is this a reason to not buy a smartphone? Uhhhh No.

  3. OLD NEWS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been using this for a whole week..(it was given to sprint users for Vision Phones from a link they provided on 1/13)

    http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 87456&highlight=opera+mini

    O-Mini seems to pass all comm through thier servers in real time. It slices most full window pages into 30 slices. It does the same on large, wider-then-tall images.

    Actually I love it so far.. I just hope they keep it free...

    Also check out Google Maps for mobile:
    http://www.google.com/glm/index.html

    And Orb (stream MUCHO from home computer):
    http://www.orb.com/what_is_orb/

  4. Re:Opera RSS feeds by masklinn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm testing it right now and it doesn't seem to have any feed integration.

    Then again, the Advanced version i'm using is only 100kb, and it's stunningly fast, good looking and readable (even with the fonts set to minimum size) so I really doubt they could include an RSS reader to boot.

    Just use bloglines or that kind of stuff and put your RSS on the web

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  5. Re:AvantGo? by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera Mini works by passing pages through Opera's servers to strip them down before they are displayed on the phone.

    Uh, I thought that was how AvantGo worked, too. Not flamebait, just asking why this is considered amazing.

    Because AvantGo provides you some downloaded content that you can browse on your device at your leisure, and Opera Mini is a web browser, with which you can dynamically view content?

    At least, that's all AvantGo did last time I used it (for Palm) and AFAICT from a super-quick glance over their website, it's all they do now.

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