by Jay Hathaway on August 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM

While Lee has been lamenting the lack of attention to the latest desktop version of Opera, the browser's mobile version is far from obscure. In fact, Opera Mini is burning up the mobile market: not only is it the most-downloaded mobile browser, it's the most-downloaded mobile application, period. This is according to open apps repository GetJar, which has recorded 25 million downloads of Opera ...
by Brad Linder on October 2, 2008 at 01:00 PM

A year and a half after introducing an innovative web browser for Windows Mobile, Microsoft is killing the project. Back before there was an Opera Mini 4 or an iPhone version of Safari, the Deepfish web browser offered a way to display full desktop views of web pages on a tiny browser, allowing you to zoom in on the area you want to read. The browser was developed by the Microsfot Live Labs team ...
by Brad Linder on May 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM
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Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour Uploaded by operasoftware
A little over a month after releasing a public beta of Opera Mini 4.1, the Opera team has pushed out the final version of its latest cellphone browser. The newest build is reportedly 50% faster than opera mini 4.0. It also has a handful of new features including the ability to save web paes fr offline viewing, the ability to upload and ...
by Brad Linder on April 2, 2008 at 12:00 PM
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Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour by operasoftware
Microsoft isn't the only company releasing a point upgrade to its mobile software this week. Opera has released Opera Mini 4.1 beta, which is a minor update to its Opera Mini web browser for cellphones with Java virtual machines. For a minor update, Opera did manage to pack a few useful features into Opera Mini 4.1:
Opera claims the new version ...
by Brad Linder on February 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM
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Opera Mobile 9.5 Uploaded by operasoftware
Opera plans to show off its next generation mobile web browser at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. While Opera Mobile 9.5 won't be available commercially until this spring, the company has released a video previewing some of the browser's more exciting features. Opera also has a tendency to release public betas of its mobile software ...
by Brad Linder on January 28, 2008 at 09:30 AM
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While mobile web browsers have come a long way in recent years, so has the web. Today's mobile browsers like Opera Mini and Safari for the iPhone let you zoom in and out of web pages and let you scale text and images to fit on a small screen. You can even watch some web video. But mobile browsers still have a tough time handling pages that make heavy use of Ajax, Flash 9, JavaScript, and other ...
by Brad Linder on December 3, 2007 at 04:00 PM

It's been a while since we've heard anything from Access about their NetFront web browser for Windows Mobile. Up until Opera Mobile and Opera Mini were released, NetFront was a serious contender for the crown of best Windows Mobile web browser. Of course, pretty much any Windows Mobile web browser is better than Pocket Internet Explorer. But NetFront has long supported tabbed browsing, quicker ...
by Brad Linder on November 7, 2007 at 11:00 AM

Want that iPhone-like mobile web browser without the iPhone price? Opera has released the final version of Opera Mini 4, which can probably run on the phone you already have. The stable version of Opera Mini 4 has pretty much all the same features as the beta version we told you about a few weeks ago, plus a few bug fixes here and there. But it's a huge step up over previous versions of Opera ...
by Brad Linder on October 25, 2007 at 02:00 PM

Opera's desktop web browser isn't the only browser getting an update today. Opera Mini 4 beta 3 is also out, and there are a ton of new features since beta 2.
Support for Opera Link (synchronize your bookmarks and speed dial settings across multiple instances of Opera)
Added Speed Dials
Added RSS feed support
Added shortcuts
Images fit to screen better
Page position and scaling ...