The application will offer fast access to websites, services, information

Oct 17, 2011 12:51 GMT  ·  By

Opera and Vodafone have just announced the release of a co-branded version of the Opera Mini application in a new country in Europe, namely Turkey.

The new application release is being made available as part of the extended global frame agreement that Opera Software and the Vodafone Group Services have announced earlier this year.

Through the new application, over 16.8 million Vodafone customers in Turkey will be able to access their favorite websites and other popular services straight from their handsets.

The co-branded flavor of Opera Mini will bring to them sports results, social networking, access to a content store, as well as to an information portal, all but only one click away.

The application was made available for free and can for every Vodafone Turkey customer, and can be downloaded from m.opera.com.

“Opera Mini has already won the hearts of almost 130 million users worldwide,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.

“We aim to make web surfing even easier for Vodafone’s subscribers in Turkey, enabling them to leap on their favorite web resources in a snap.”

Opera Mini is the most popular mobile browser in the world, offering support for a number of over 3,000 phone models.

The browser packs a compression technology through which web pages are being compressed by up to 90 percent before being sent to handsets.

“We aim to ensure that everyone in Turkey can enjoy the mobile Internet as part of the Super Internet strategy that we launched at the beginning of 2011,” Vodafone Turkey stated.

“We are delighted to offer this new version of Opera Mini to our customers, making it even easier and more enjoyable for them to surf the Mobile Internet.”

Opera also notes that Turkey is one of the countries where Opera Mini is constantly registering increase in usage. At the moment, there are over 3.5 more users in Turkey taking advantage of the application that a year ago.