Check out the article at Geekzone on the release of Opera Mini! Mini is a Java based version of their excellent browser, designed for the small screen on your average mobile phone. All the phone needs to support Mini is to run Java applets. And the best part is – its free!
It seems Opera has made the beta version of their Opera 8.5 Browser available for download! Mobile Gadget News is reporting many details including support for Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0!
Steven Bink over at Bink.nuposted news that Opera is not being actively pursued by Microsoft or Google. This is good news from my point of view – Opera has always had a great browser, and the market needs another browsing point of view seperate from Internet Explorer and FireFox.
Opera is offering an exclusive preview of their Opera Mini browser for mobile phones – note that this is not targeted just at smartphones, but at regular “cell” phones! I’ve tested the new mini-browser on a Nokia 6600 on the T-Mobile network, and it works great. To download the browser directly to your phone, point your existing browser to http://mini.opera.com.
Now, if we could only petition the federal government to do the same. Sadly weasel John Thune is blocking the voice of the people. Somebody must have some serious dossier on this guy, that he would block the will of a super majority of Republicans and a healthy majority of