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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android is now released

Early in March, Opera released its Opera Mini mobile browser version 5.0 beta for Android phones. And now Opera Mini version 5.1 has been available for the Android platform. With these new version of Opera Mini 5.1 is now have more stabble browser application since this version using low memory resources.

For Android users who want to use Opera Mini 5.1, can be download on their Android phone just point the browser to http://m.opera.com, it will automatically directed to a link to download Opera Mini 5.1 applications for Android devices.

Even more interesting, Android users can assign an application these Opera Mini 5.1 browser as the default browser on their Android phones so if you find a direct link will be directed to open with Opera Mini browser when they click on link.

[via Opera]

Lemon Mobile brings IQ 707 smartphone integrate with Opera Mini for Indian market

The smartphone users in India can now surf the web with Opera Mini browser on Lemon Mobile IQ 707 smartphone it has a slim and stylish design made by Lemon Mobile, this one of the mobile phone brands promoted by FASTRACK Communication Pvt.

The IQ 707 was recently launched in the Indian market and sports with QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 MP camera, EDGE, quadband, supports Java applications and has a trackball navigation, and additional application is the Opera Mini web browser which would dramatically enhance the performance experience ofl mobile phone usage.

Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, offers compression from the server side, which can shrink the web page up 90 percent, thus reducing the burden of access on the device. This is accelerating the browsing experience and also saves a large amount of money for their data usage bills.

In this collaboration, Dag Olav Norem, VP Products of Opera Software said, "India has become one of our market's fastest growing over the last several years. India is the third largest country of the user base of Opera Mini, after Russia and Indonesia. With the rapid rise because many people do enjoy browsing the Web from their mobile phone, users simply choose the best software for their devices - and it is Opera Mini.".

[via opera.com]

Apple approves Opera mini for iPhone

After 20 days, eight hours and 31 minutes, Apple has approved Opera mini to be made available for free on the App Store.

I immediately checked the App Store as soon as I heard the news and surprise, surprise, there it was, Opera Mini Web browser by Opera Software ASA.

So is it the competition worthy of knocking off Safari from my dock?

In short, a big fat no. It is absolutely horrible. It's such a bad app I'm deleting it from my iPhone as soon as I hit send on this post.

Why is it horrible? Not all websites render properly on this browser. On several sites some links would disappear. Or at least it appears that way. They're still there but the text goes missing, leaving blank spaces within paragraphs for example. A refresh fixes this but it happens from time to time.

Text fields in Opera mini do not support autocorrect which has been an important part of typing on iPhone OS.

Typing on restricted text fields like on twitter's mobile site or other third party twitter web apps is unrestricted. You can go all the way past 140 characters and you won't realize it.

Rotating the iPhone would normally zoom or widen a website in Safari but Opera mini does not do that. Instead it maintains the width on portrait mode in landscape and shows a blank column on the remaining space.

How Opera mini displays a website is just plain bad. When you're used to how beautiful Safari renders web pages, you tend to take it for granted. Opera mini makes you really appreciate the hard work Apple and the WebKit team took on making sites look great on the iPhone. All the rendering and processing is done on Opera's servers and you get a seriously compressed version which is why it's really fast.

By fast I mean blazing fast, Opera mini opens sites almost in an instant, it has a neat tabbed browsing interface, it's ideal for those whose net access is limited by speed or quota because it delivers compressed web pages instead of the real thing, and it's fast.

It has an option to display a mobile optimized version of a site, it let's you decide to display reduced or full resolution images, it's really fast, it has a bookmark sync service with your Opera account, it has a speed dial page which has since been copied by Safari and Chrome, and it lets you save pages to open later when you're offline. Oh did I mention it's fast?

By the way, it also doesn't do Flash and is horrible with Acid3 tests, then again it's not really what you would call a traditional browser so you wouldn't really expect it to do well on those tests.

Try it if you will but I wouldn't wish this app on a sick dog.

Sent from my iPhone

Opera Mini "count up" for iPhone's App Store submission

All Opera Mini 5 in Indonesia have Telkomsel brand?

No more beta for Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10

A final version of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, at last. After months of Beta 1 and Beta 2, Opera for mobiles left the Beta title at home and become the default offer when you hit http://m.opera.com. I dunno exactly the difference between Beta 2 and final version, but hopefully less bugs will be found until next release. 

Video: Opera Mini 5 Beta on Android OS

Previously, we have reviewed the application Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android operating system, and today we just found a video demo of the Opera Mini 5 Beta running on Google's Nexus One, The app brings the full Opera Mini browsing experience to the Android OS. Here is the video:

Opera Mini 5 beta launched on Android, and here's our quick review

Telkomsel is the Opera's preferred partner in Indonesia

Indonesia's Telkomsel and Opera announced strategic partnership to distribute Opera Mini 5, optimized for Telkomsel subscribers. Even more, Opera Mini's customization for Telkomsel includes changes to the toolbar, billing integration, home page-content and more.

Telkomsel will also offer their customers a new Opera Mini data plan to make mobile browsing more cost efficient. We may see Opera Mini with customized Telkomsel logo and toolbar in near future, I bet.

This move is very important for Opera since Indonesia is its second largest market worldwide. Having 82 million additional subscribers in hand will boast Opera Mini dominance significantly. Telkomsel is the largest telecom carrier in Indonesia, while Opera Mini is claimed to be the most widely used browser in the world.

[via Press Release]

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