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).

Google dominates mobile web search in USA

Rating: Or so say the Opera browser people
According web browser specialist, Opera, Google took the Lion’s share of mobile web search in the USA with a surprsingly small than 9 per cent of all page views . Still that easily outpaces rivals Yahoo! and Bing, who had 4.3 per cent and 0.03 per cent 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?

Opera acquires AdMarvel

Oslo, Norway, January 20, 2010 - Opera Software today announced that it has acquired AdMarvel, Inc. The acquisition will enable Opera to expand its portfolio of products and services to include highly scalable ad monetization services for Opera branded mobile products and services offered by mobile operators and content partners.
AdMarvel, based in San Mateo, California [...]

Opera introduces an easy-stream solution

Rating: V 10.10 serves content from your PC to your mobile
Obviously the easiest way to move content from a PC or existing handset to a new mobile phone would be side-loading it from a memory card. But in many cases such a procedure is complex, time-consuming and fraught with problems. Problem solved with Opera version [...]

Opera mobile the truth says Wap Review

Tony Dennis our UK guru journalist wrote a FANTASTIC article yesterday on : http://www.gomonews.com/memory-problem-dogs-new-opera-mobile-browser/

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 [...]

What can we expect next in mobile?

At day one of the Mobile 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a panel is asked the question “what can we expect next in mobile?” A great panel, assembled from Directors and C-level executives across the mobile market, who gave us the benefit of their experience.

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 Mobile 9.7 update hits Windows Mobile devices

The latest update for Opera Mobile was released this morning for Windows phones. With a big speed increase, and better widget management, the new version of the OS is meeting with huge approval.

What are the main updates?
Turbo - Opera Turbo is the compressor behind the new speed boost for the mobile browser. You can see [...]

Opera is bigger than iPhone for mobile browsing, but it should be compared to Safari

There’s been a lot of excited talk about Opera overtaking iPhone as the most popular mobile web browser. But that’s not a competition between two web browsers. It’s a competition between a browser and a device.

Irish company StatCounter revealed that Opera use over-took iPhone use for web browsing in May:

This research data is based on [...]

Forget Susan Boyle: Opera Mini sings up 157% traffic increase

Operais singing up a rumpus today by claiming that eyeballs on Opera Mini have rocketed.

What?
More that 23 million people used Opera in March 2009
This is an increase of 12.1%
The same users viewed more than 8.6 billion pages in March 2009
In March 2009 Opera Mini served 148 million MB of data to handsets
Data consumption went up [...]

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