Opera mobile browser on Android fails to impress: is the Singing Robot out of tune?

Still sitting pretty with the most downloaded mobile browser in the world, Opera has now announced it has launched an Android version of Opera Mini. But it hasn’t had a completely positive reception so far. First of all, let us say that Opera Mini is pretty much the biggest mobile browser out there. More than 23 million people were using Opera Mini in the early parts of 2009. It clocks WELL in excess of 10 billion page views every month. The current version, Opera Mini beta 5, is incredibly adaptable, working smoothly on both touch-screen and physical-keyboard phones. And with the Android release, it supports all the major smartphone OSs (kind of).

Is Opera Mini mobile browser really coming to iPhone?

A lot of excitement has been generated by an announcement from Opera this morning. According to the software firm the mobile version of its internet browser, Opera Mini, will be demonstrated as an iPhone app during Mobile World Congress. This is a welcome announcement for Opera fans with iPhones, who have so far been denied access to their browser of choice. But what does Apple think about this?

Memory problem dogs new Opera Mobile browser

Rating: That’s the trouble with betas
Browser specialist, Opera, released a new version of its mobile browser for Symbian/S60 handsets – the Opera Mobile 10 beta. GoMo news downloaded it and immediately ran into memory problems.
Before that, GoMo News did a bit of head-scratching. Opera says this beta is for Nokia phones and S60 handsets in [...]

Opera updates Mini browser with touch, tabs and speed dial

Further cementing it’s position as the most popular mobile browser on the market, Opera has released version 5 of its’ Opera Mini browser. The new program is mostly concerned with adding user-interface features to make browsing easier and faster.

Opera Mini mobile browser has become the most downloaded app from GetJar

Mobile browsers have a habit of announcing all of the “important” milestones they pass. But Opera Mini has some news I found genuinely interesting this morning - it has now been downloaded over 25 million times from the GetJar independent app store. That not only makes it the most downloaded GetJar app, but the most downloaded app from any open app store.

Opera mini users view 10 billion mobile pages in one month

For the first time, Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month according to the State of the Mobile Web report by Opera.

Opera Mini mobile browser makes moves in Europe

Opera has announced a two-fold agreement today with TeliaSonera. The mobile operator is co-creating a new data center with Opera in Poland. But this center will also act as a new server hub for Opera Mini in Eastern Europe, which significantly expands the mobile browsers European network

Opera State of the Mobile Web shows massive mobile web growth in emerging markets

Opera has just released it’s “State of the Mobile Web” report for January 2009. The report shows a huge growth in use of Opera Mini globally, and particularly in Ukraine, India and South Africa.
Other figures from the report:
Unique users of Opera Mini continued to grow over January, rising 12.1% over December month to 20 million [...]

Vodafone and Opera aim for high-speed mobile web on low end phones

Vodafone and Opera have signed a deal to create a custom-made version of Opera Mini for low and mid priced handsets. The new browser will aim to provide reliable, high speed mobile Internet access even in low coverage areas.
The new version of Opera Mini will be available to Vodafone customers in Europe, the Middle East, [...]

Opera’s mobile web browser hits 10 million downloads… just through app distributor GetJar

Rating: Opera Mini becomes first app to hit landmark figure on GetJar

Opera’s freeware mobile browser, that works on any handset, has now had 10 million hits through GetJar. GetJar specialises in freeware downloads of apps and games to non-iPhone mobiles, and is understandably proud of this development. Opera Mini is the first app to hit [...]

Social Networking sites dominate mobile internet according to Opera Mini traffic

Rating: Social networkingtastic kids
Opera Software have revealed that almost 41% of the mobile traffic was to social networking sites. The United States, South Africa and Indonesia have more than 60% of their traffic going to social networks.
They Say: Opera’s report also stated that more than 11.9 million people used Opera Mini in March to browse [...]

Opera makes Google the default search option on Opera Mobile Browsers

Google is the default search option on Opera Mobile Browsers (again)
The battle of Google ousting Yahoo! and Yahoo! ousting Google is in full play. In February 2007 Yahoo! ousted Google from the Opera deck and now Google is back.

“Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued [...]

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