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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. Re:Super bleeding edge. by Eugenia+Loli · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What are you talking about? I have the Motorola Linux feature-phone E680i running Opera 7 (Motorola's linux smartphones are not true smartphones because the SDK is not given away to developers to write native apps for the phone -- a crucial part of a smartphone platform), and I have also installed Opera Mini 1.2 just fine. It works fine.

  2. Opera RSS feeds by rapidweather · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if Opera Mini will also have the ability to handle RSS feeds something like the regular Opera 8.51 does. I'm running it now on my knoppix remaster, and I have several RSS feeds, (including slashdot), and I think it's cool how the little feed download popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen works. Every so often it pops up and shows the download of more stories from the various feeds. Even on dialup, it loads from scratch in less than a minute, sometimes over 180 stories! Then maintains the feed lists with the updates. On a mobile device, do you suppose Opera Mini will have some sort of sound to notify of updated feed lists? Also, the way Opera handles the feeds is superior to Firefox, which only shows the titles of the stories in the bookmarks toolbar folder, in the drop down box. Opera gives you the summary of the story when you click on it, sometimes several lines long, enough for you to decide whether or not you want to click on the main link provided, and go to the actual web page for that item. Opera provides a quick and bandwidth-conserving way of scanning a lot of news items and articles very quickly. Opera Mini might be able to do this also for the mobile devices.

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  3. Bring out yer flamebait mods..... by Darth_brooks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, does this mean that if Opera desperatly needs some more cache, they'll start logging the pages they strip and sell off the logs to the highest bidder? What about DOJ requests for folks checking out pr0n on their mobile phone?

    Is this liability that Opera really wants to take on?

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  4. Re:Opera Mini: Screenshots and discussion by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Interesting
    where's the discussion about this 'feature':
    Opera Mini works by passing pages through Opera's servers to strip them down before they are displayed on the phone.
    I assume this is an automated process, just like Google's ability to insert relevant ads into G-Mail.

    Not to be alarmist, but the question remains, what're they planning to do with those browsing histories?
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