Jun 30, 2011 10:31 GMT  ·  By

Today, Norwegian company Opera Software announced the release of new flavors of its mobile browsers Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, with a series of enhancements that should make the browsing on the small screen of mobile phones a more enjoyable activity.

The new Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1 browsers come with search suggestions from Google and Yandex, as well as with smarter domain recognition.

With the new browser releases, the built-in search field will offer suggestions as the user types, and will save time when searching on the go.

But there's more to it, as the new browser versions were also designed so as to adapt to users' habits, the software company explains.

“With the new top-level domain learning feature, new top-level domains such as .uk, .ru and .id are picked up by the browser so you can type less, next time around,” Opera notes.

Although the two browsers come with similar features, they also pack specific capabilities, and a wide range of differences as well.

Opera Mini, for example, was made available for Java (J2ME), BlackBerry, S60, Android, and iOS, and comes with a compression technology through which web pages are compressed by up to 90 percent before being sent to handsets.

The Opera Mobile browser sports a rendering engine similar to the one on Opera for desktop, offering support or HTML5 on smartphones and tablets. It can be downloaded and installed on Android, S60, Win7 Desktop, and MeeGo devices.

Opera Mobile was built around Opera Presto, the core of all of the company's browsers. When updated, Opera Presto brings both better standards support and improved performance on mobile devices.

“We have a saying at Opera: Listen to our users,” said Dag Olav Norem, VP Product Management, Opera Software. “As a company, we are constantly listening to our users on what they want in their browser. So, to our most vocal consumers, thank you and keep the feedback coming!”

Opera Mini for Android 6.1 Opera Mini for BlackBerry 6.1.25376 Opera Mini for Java 6.1.25378 Opera Mini for Symbian 6.1

Opera Mobile (Android) 11.1 Opera Mobile (Symbian) 11.1