Opera Mini 4.2 out of beta, available for Android and Samsung Instinct too
Unwired View — ... Opera Mini 4.2 can be downloaded for free via Opera’s official website. Source: Opera Similar Posts: Opera Mini 4.2 beta released for 20 million users worldwide Opera Kicks Out Mini 4.1 Beta Opera Mini 4.1 officially released Opera Mini for iPhone’s situation clarified No Opera Mobile 9.5 for Symbian next week. Only WM users happy ...

Opera Mini 4.2
SuperSite Blog — ... of phones with support for mobile video. The far-reaching popularity of Opera Mini continues to grow month after month. Opera reports that 21 million unique users browsed five billion pages in October 2008 alone, totaling a remarkable 490 percent increase since October 2007. Millions of people have already discovered the power of Opera Mini; it’s time for the rest of the world to enjoy the Web on the small screen. Opera Mini 4.2 is ready and waiting for download at http://www.opera.com/mini/.

Freebie of the day: Opera's new mobile browser
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog — ... Anyway, Opera Mini 4.2 also adds new language support, skins for customizing its appearance and improve mobile video performance. It also works with the Android-based G1 from T-Mobile. ...

Dealzmodo Hack: Revitalize Your Windows Mobile Phone [Dealzmodo Hacks]
Gizmodo — ... Opera Mini/Mobile: A Java-based browser, Opera Mini is a free download that will immediately give your phone a new lease on life. Fancy this: Now, with your phone, you can visit actual websites, rendered to a reasonable degree of accuracy! OH MY GOD! ...

Opera: Facebook and vKontakte Soar on Mobile
AppScout — ... Opera Mini is a free Java-based Web browser that works on many feature phones, as well as BlackBerrys and other smartphones that can run Java apps natively. I've reviewed it three times so far for PC Mag; each successive version thus far has added features while improving performance and page rendering.

Opera Mini 4.2 for Android Released
D' Technology Weblog — ... Mini for Android, that allows uploading and downloading of files through the browser, and allows pages to be saved for offline viewing. YouTube videos and the like (not all Flash 9+ video sites are supported) are redirected through the system’s video player, double tapping the screen now activates zoom, trackball speed issues have been addressed, and text size can now be changed to “extra large” for easier navigation. More info: Opera Mini ...

Mobile Browser Wars
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... browser for Windows Mobile and UIQ. This is a full blown browser that installs on your device and renders the content locally, attempting to compensate for the devices small screen and limited capabilities when compared to a PC. Opera also has Opera Mini that works on the Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian as well as the aging PalmOS platform. Data is compressed on Opera's servers and rendered on the device. ...

Opera Boosts Browsing Speeds
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... consumers' demands for the mobile Web without overtaxing the networks. "We are living in a time and place where access to the Web should be a universal right to all. Technology has advanced us to the point that we can very nearly access the Internet anytime and anywhere from a growing number of devices," said Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's CEO, in a statement. "As part of Opera's commitment to provide the best experience on any device, Opera has developed the Opera Turbo solution." Opera Mini is one of the most widely used mobile browsers in the world with about 20 million ...

Opera Boosts Browsing Speeds
TechWeb — ... consumers' demands for the mobile Web without overtaxing the networks. "We are living in a time and place where access to the Web should be a universal right to all. Technology has advanced us to the point that we can very nearly access the Internet anytime and anywhere from a growing number of devices," said Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's CEO, in a statement. "As part of Opera's commitment to provide the best experience on any device, Opera has developed the Opera Turbo solution." Opera Mini is one of the most widely used mobile browsers in the world with about 20 million ...

Dealzmodo Hack: Overhaul Your Last-Gen BlackBerry [Dealzmodo Hack]
Gizmodo — ... Opera Mini: This feisty little browser has been backing up RIM's stock software for years, and with good reason. It'll run on almost any BlackBerry, with (old version) support spanning back to the ancient, black-and-white 5810, which was released in 2002. Opera uses server-side optimization to speed things up, but the end result is an experience that at least resembles browsing as we know it today. ...

3 Reasons Why Mobile Browsing Doubled Last Year [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... USA Today and Mint. Lastly, we’ve seen great maturity in mobile web browsers. Webkit-based browsers like that in Apple’s iPhone, Google Android and Palm’s upcoming Pre are more efficient than handheld browsers some of us cut our teeth in five years ago. A number of server-side browsers optimize and compress web data before you see it. That speeds up the ability to view web info on the phone as well: Skyfire, Opera Mini and Bolt all come to mind in this area. These three factors are laying the ...

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... It's nice to see progress, but I don't think anyone expected Apple to let the JS engine in Mobile Safari lay fallow for long. Every day browsers like Opera Mini and ...

So Opera Does Have a Carrier Deal After All
jkOnTheRun — ... ; it just remains to be seen how much of one. Initially, Opera Mini will be a download on select handsets through the VirginXL storefront, and eventually the excellent brower will come pre-installed on some devices. Eight handsets are the intial target starting April 14, including the the Samsung Slash, the Arc, Shuttle and Super Slice. Looks like Om is right: ...

Dealzmodo Hack: Don't Give Up On Your Symbian Phone [Dealzmodo Hack]
Gizmodo — ... /Mini: Opera has made an appearance in every last one of my smartphone revival stories, and with good reason. Each version offers its own advantage for Symbian: ...

Opera Reports Explosive Mobile Web Growth Worldwide
ReadWriteWeb — ... As of last month, more than 23 million mobile web surfers used Opera Mini to surf more than 8.6 billion pages in March, which equates to 148 million megabytes of data sent to handsets worldwide. Since Opera Mini compresses data before sending, that number actually represents 1.4 petabytes (PB) of uncompressed data. Data traffic is up 319%, year-over-year, and page views have increased by 255%. ...

Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini to access the web from phones and they viewed more than 8.6 billion pages. The folks at Opera state that those 8.6 billion pages consisted of over 148 million MB of data served. That’s a lot of web content by any standard but if you take into account that Opera Mini pages are compressed on the servers before getting pushed down to the phone, sometimes as much as 90 percent, that content represents the equivalent of 1.4 PB (1,400 terabytes) of data. That’s a lot ...

Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination
jkOnTheRun — ... In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini to access the web from phones and they viewed more than 8.6 billion pages. The folks at Opera state that those 8.6 billion pages consisted of over 148 million MB of data served. That’s a lot of web content by any standard but if you take into account that Opera Mini pages are compressed on the servers before getting pushed down to the phone, sometimes as much as 90 percent, that content represents the equivalent of 1.4 PB (1,400 terabytes) of data. That’s a lot of honking data and in just one ...

21 BlackBerry Apps for Professionals
SitePoint — ... 2. Empower InstaSpell - In-line spell checker that integrates with most native BlackBerry apps ($15). 3. eOffice 4.6 Mobile Office Suite - Access, manage and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files ($29.95). 4. File Manager Pro - Manage files on your BlackBerry; open, create, extract and append Zip archives ($11.95). 5. Opera Mini – Browse the Web with this mobile browser (free). Productivity 6. Bluetooth File Sharing - Share files via Bluetooth protocol ($9.95). 7. Evernote for ...

Review: This Week’s Top S60 5th-edition applications
PhoneReport v2.0 - latest news, specs, reviews, interviews, and analysis — ... The large font size and fullscreen browsing are a welcome change from tiny fonts and pseudo fullscreen browsing in the default Symbian browser (pseudo full screen as almost 30% of screen is reserved for the large soft touch buttons at the bottom in portrait mode and at the side in the landscape mode). With easier bookmark and history management, Opera Mini is the best mobile browser on this platform today. Opera Mini v1.2 can be downloaded from their official website here. Best Messaging solution: Free iSMS ...

SitePoint Podcast #17: 12 Kinds of Awesome
SitePoint — ... Tool Google Maps releases API v3.0 beta Announcing Google Maps API v3 (Google) Google I/O a Real Eye-opener! (SitePoint) Opera 10 Beta Opera 10 Beta (Opera) What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 1) (SitePoint) What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 2: Performance) (SitePoint) Jon Hicks Discusses the New Opera Skin (Opera) Opera Mini (Opera) Apple Releases Safari 4 (and backs down on tab ...

Have a BlackBerry? Review Opera Mini and win a trip to Opera HQ in Norway!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... ) Maps. Opera Mini, for those who may not know, is a Java application that takes a website, compresses the data on Opera’s servers, and then spits it to your mobile. It’s fast, awesome, and if you are not using it you have something seriously wrong with you. ...

How Usable is the Mobile Web?
ReadWriteWeb — ... So what is this study really saying, then? If you want to surf the mobile web with ease, get a smartphone? Or perhaps it's pointing out how terrible the browsers are on traditional cell phones, seeing as how those who struggled the most were using what many would call "old school" handsets (aka "feature phones"). It's also interesting that no comparisons were made between the basic built-in browsers and a user-installed upgrade like Opera. With Opera Mini's site compression and zooming abilities, for example, accessing sites - both mobile and non - on any phone becomes much ...

SitePoint Podcast #21: Interview with Jon Hicks
SitePoint — ... and the new version of Opera Mini which isn’t out yet or beta’d yet and also a little bit of work that I can’t yet talk about. You probably know me as being the logo designer of ...

Opera confirms that they’re going to launch Opera Mobile for Android
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... Opera, the Norwegian company who makes one of my favorite all time mobile applications Opera Mini, has admitted both via Twitter (above) and ...

Opera Mini Storms Mobile Apps, But Safari Is On Its Tail
TechCrunch — Mobile browser Opera Mini has clocked up more than 25 million downloads via GetJar, the mobile app market backed by Accel Partners. That makes it GetJar’s most popular app ever. The latest version of Opera Mini (v4.2) has been downloaded 7.5 million times since the beginning of the year, which is not too shabby. Opera Mini is also making Firefox eat dust in the mobile world. Firefox has been promising a full-blown mobile browser for a year, but Mozilla users are still waiting, although Mozilla has released Fennec 3, a beta version of its ...

Blackberry download limit remover
Hack a Day — ... Web Browser, there is a fixed file download limit of 2.3MB. Many users avoid this by installing a 3rd party browser (such as Opera Mini, for example), but there is still that bitter taste for having an extra web browser around just to download decently sized files. This limit seems to be imposed by a certain ...

Nokia Nseries: The Road Ahead
infoSync World — ... and the Opera Mini browser being amongst the key third-party offerings. In addition, many of the Nseries phones have offered top-notch camera quality. These phones have also been regarded as must-have for Nokia fans in the U.S., providing a very different yet great concept than the carrier phones, even with the lack of significant third-party services. Nseries in the future One of the challenges moving forward will be to offer Nseries phones with greater focus on the Web, without losing the traditional capabilities users expect from the Nseries phones. The new ...

Opera Mini 5 coming really soon to a phone near you
Unwired View — ... website, saying “coming very soon: the next generation in mobile browsing.” The folks over at My Opera have confirmed that Opera Mini 5.0 is almost ready to be launched – in a beta version of the beginning. No exact release date was given, but the new beta version of the Java ME based mobile browser should be available “very, very soon”. In the meantime, if you don’t have Opera Mini on your phone, you can download the 4.2 version from here. ...

Opera Mini 5 coming soon
Ubergizmo — ... on their website. There is not much information about what's new, but we hope that it can rival the best browsers out there. The current version is 4.2. ...

Opera Mini 5 beta browser strikes it rich
Webware.com — ... have been stealing all the thunder in the mobile browsing space. On Wednesday morning (that's Tuesday night for us in San Francisco), Opera yanked some of it back with the release of Opera Mini 5 beta for Java phones. ...

Opera Mini 5 beta browser strikes it rich
Crave: The gadget blog — ... have been stealing all the thunder in the mobile browsing space. On Wednesday morning (that's Tuesday night for us in San Francisco), Opera yanked some of it back with the release of Opera Mini 5 beta for Java phones. ...

Mobile Search 101, Part 2
SearchEngineWatch Experts — ... . Here's a listing of mobile search engines to register with: Mobile Browsers and Development As you begin your development efforts, you will want to test on multiple mobile browsers. The ones to test on are Opera Mini , ...

70 Free Cool Google Android Apps
TechnoBuzz.net — ... such as coming birthdays, missed calls and unread text messages. Phonebook comes with a nice landscape view, a dialer and a quick access to your favourites and most called contacts. With Phonebook, have fun while browsing your contacts. 8. Live Chat Chat, flirt and discuss with other users in this Live Chat application. You can create your own chat groups and create a profile with photo. Have fun! 9. Opera Mini Browse the entire Web on your Android phone and ...

What’s Your Favorite Mobile App of 2009? #openwebawards
Mashable! — ... - ebuddy - Opera Mini - YinzCam - Nimbuzz - Zillow - Mobypicture - Fring - Snaptu - Tweetie - Gowalla ...

Huge Surge in Mobile Internet
dailywireless.org — ... Last month, the company claims more than 35.6 million people used Opera Mini and is now serving over 500 million pageviews per day on average on a wide range of mobile devices. That’s up 11.5% compared to August 2009 and more than 150% compared to September 2008. The Norway software developer also claims more than 2 petabytes of data is now processed by its servers on a monthly basis. That’s 2,000 terabytes. ...

500 Leading Nominees in Mashable’s #openwebawards
Mashable! — ... - ebuddy - Opera Mini - YinzCam - Nimbuzz - Zillow - Mobypicture - Evernote - Snaptu - Tweetie - Gowalla ...

Opera 10.10 with Unite and Turbo now available
Download Squad — ... The inclusion of Opera Turbo in the new browser marks the migration to the desktop of a technology that has long been a key feature of Opera's Mini product. Opera Turbo speeds up your browsing session by compressing content at Opera proxy servers before delivering it to your machine - particularly useful for those on low bandwidth connections. ...