Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Good things are rarely free of charge but for the time being Opera Mini is available for free WAP download at http://mini.opera.com (apart from data charges).
Opera Mini can compress standard web pages by up to 80% using Small Screen Rendering to reformat the content. Naturally this speeds the surfing time and can reduce your data charges.
"With Opera Mini most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today," from Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.
"We are proud to be the first to offer full, mobile Web browsing to the majority of the world's mobile phone users," he added.
Opera Mobile has been around for a while but it does cost, at least Opera Mini is free. Opera have 100 Linux servers on hand to cope with the expected leap in traffic. We managed to download the software with ease but pages were timing out when we tried to access them. The overall graphics and setup is very nice and is a excellent alternative to boring WAP text pages.
The left image shows the display on more basic MIDP 1.0 handsets (Nokia 3510i etc) and the right image corresponds to MIDP 2.0 handsets like the Series 60 Nokia's and the new Sony Ericsson's.
Full details on the Opera website.
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