The people’s choice: Opera Mini 4
Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today revealed that Opera Mini 4, the newest version of the world’s most popular mobile Web browser, was downloaded more than one million times in the 10 days following its worldwide debut on November 7. Overall, Opera Mini has already been embraced by more than 26 million cumulative users who view more than one billion Web pages every month.
“The people have spoken: Opera Mini is their mobile browser of choice,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Everything we do comes down to listening to our users and giving them what they want. The tremendous reception for Opera Mini 4 is proof that consumers want the freedom to choose the same experience, the same Web, regardless of what device they use.”
According to Gartner, more than 50% of cellular subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe will access the Web on a mobile device at least once a week by 2010. Opera Mini brings the full Web, your favorite Web sites and services, to almost every mobile phone today. Opera Mini also automatically reduces the size of the transferred pages, so Web sites load faster while reducing the cost of surfing.
“I already use Opera Mini as my primary Web browser, even on devices where I have many browsing options,” said Sumeet Kishnani, an Opera Mini user from New York City. “Opera Mini is more than just a Web browser — it can leverage the Web to become an RSS reader, email client, and more. I look forward to future versions of the browser that will allow me to use a sleeker device while adding more functionality.”
New in Opera Mini 4
Sync Your Digital Lifestyle
Now you can use Opera Link with Opera Mini 4 to synchronize your mobile phone Web links with the Web links on your computer. Simply log in to a My Opera account through your phone, to sync your bookmarks, or access them from any other browser by going to a Link Web page.
View Pages in Landscape mode
Want to view the Web on a wider screen? Just hit * # and flip your phone to the side to enjoy browsing in Landscape mode. Change your default view to landscape by turning “Landscape mode” on inside your Settings menu.*
Optimized for Blackberry Users
Opera Mini 4 offers “native BlackBerry menus” designed to invoke the same user-interface Blackberry users are used to on Blackberry devices. Now BlackBerry users can use Opera Mini in a more integrated way that looks and feels like a BlackBerry.
Give Your Phone A Mouse
Opera Mini now gives you a virtual mouse, so you can easily scroll in any direction. Move the mouse cursor towards what you want, and then it quickly snaps your view to the link or content.
Enhanced Small Screen Rendering
Opera’s unique Small Screen Rendering feature, “Mobile View,” lets you better enjoy web pages on the small screen. Fit any web page to width and Opera Mini 4 will adjust the page structure on the fly. Browse up and down without also having to worry about horizontal scrolling. Instead, scroll down a single column, perfectly resized for your phone.
Top features
Super Fast = Cheaper Browsing
Opera Mini 4 loads your requested web pages at over twice the speed of the other mobile browsers on the market. Because Opera Mini 4 compresses the data before sending it to your phone, your content is delivered faster and costs less to receive.
Auto-sized for Your Phone’s Screen
Opera Mini 4 dynamically changes the size of text and images, making it more convenient to read — so less scrolling is required to read content.
Power Scrolling Shortcuts
Scroll at warp speed using your phone keypad. Find your way around on the web pages quicker by using your phone’s number keys. Press 2 to go up, 4 to go left, 6 to go right and 8 to go down. Hitting 5 zooms you in and out.
Create Custom Search Shortcuts
Just like in Opera for your computer, you can create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet using Opera Mini 4. Simply click on the search field that you want to grab on a Web page and then choose “Create search” within your menu alternatives. Then you can enjoy making frequent searches without having to type in the site link again.
Suggested Start Points
When you go to a web page, Opera Mini 4 first shows you an overview of the page, and suggests where to begin your reading. Just click once and Opera Mini 4 will zoom quickly in on the content.
Quick Browsing Keystrokes
Take control over your viewing options with a few quick keystrokes. Just hit 1 to open the Context Menu, where you can turn on Small Screen Rendering (Mobile View) or reload the page.
Before you click on a link, focus the cursor on a link to check where the link will take you. You can then choose whether you want to open the linked page with images turned off. If you choose to browse with the images turned off, you can still choose to load these images in the page you are browsing by selecting “Load images.” You can even load the image in its uncompressed, high-quality, original size by choosing “Open image.”
Tools and support for web designers
We support web designers who want to make their websites look even better to those browsing with Opera Mini. In Opera Mini 4, we have included all of the cool CSS support that web designers need to make their web pages look pixel perfect on in the mobile web world.
*(Sorry, this feature is yet not supported on BlackBerry and some other devices.)
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