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June 19th, 2007, 10:49 GMT · By Elena Balan

Opera Mini 4 Beta Available

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Opera Mini 4 Beta with a brand new interface
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Opera Mini 4 Beta is from now on available for being used on all Internet enabled mobile phones. This Web browser is meant to provide performances similar to those found on PC Internet use experiences.

Opera Mini 4 Beta will feature several new performances. Moreover, it
will use a remote server in order to pre-process Web pages before sending them to mobile phones. This new browser also comes with solutions for fast and efficient data transfer. All Web content will be compressed in order to reduce data sizes. As a result, even less evolved handsets will be able to work on Opera Mini 4 Beta. Another advantage is that broadcasting speeds will considerably increase while at the same time reducing costs.

Other new features introduced by this Web browser also bring the possibility to zoom and get a clean view on a specific part of the page. Moreover, Opera Mini 4 Beta changes the size of text in order to make it easy to use on mobile phones too. As to make this Web browsing experience similar to that offered by a PC, Opera has also a virtual mouse which can be scrolled in any direction.

"As Opera's exclusive mobile search partner, our revolutionary Yahoo! oneSearch service gives their millions of consumers worldwide access to the better search results and instant answers they want on their mobile phone", said Lee Ott, director of mobile products, Yahoo!. Moreover, "As the first mobile browser to gain mass popularity, Opera Mini has proven people want access to all their favorite Internet services and sites on their mobile phone".

Opera Mini browser has been used by more than 15 million people for accessing 5 billion pages until now. These figures have been reached since the software was first released in 2006. Users can download Opera Mini 4 Beta browser Palm OS version here or BlackBerry version here, while the Java version is only downloadable Over-the-Air on the developer's website.

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Comment #1 by: dilip on 07 Jan 2010, 13:47 UTC reply to this comment

opera is the best ever mobile browser i used

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