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Opera Mini 3.0 Released for Phones

By the Betanews Staff | Published November 28, 2006, 4:46 PM

Opera Software on Tuesday released the final version 3.0 of its Opera Mini Web browser, which is designed for mobile phones. The upgrade introduces a number of new social networking features, such as photo sharing and a built-in RSS reader.

Other additions include support for secure SSL connections and speed improvements. Opera Mini uses server-side compression to make browsing the Web faster. The software is available free of charge, but a data plan is required from a wireless carrier to use Opera Mini. Most mobile handsets are supported, but recent Cingular phones are not compatible due to the carrier's Java Virtual Machine that asks the user to approve each data connection as it is made.

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organum
Nov 30, 2006 - 3:01 AM edited

Sadly Opera are better at promotion than delivering.
Blackberry support in my case is terrible. 7 series never worked and so I ditched Mini until v3. Guess what that doesn't work either on the latest 3G BBs and when I asked Opera when they would make it work they said they had no plans and that BB doesn't work on Internet.
Strange since there are so many 3rd party apps out there all working just fine and most self configuring.
Sad really.

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Mark Gillespie
Nov 29, 2006 - 2:59 PM

Fantastic, this works really well on my Nokia.

I have Opera on my phone, Opera on my Desktop regardless of operating system, I can have Opera on a Wii, is there ANYWHERE that Opera Internet browser will not run?

Opera really are the innovators, Mozilla and Microsoft (in the browser world at least) are just immatators.

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smith288
Nov 29, 2006 - 9:38 PM

"is there ANYWHERE that Opera Internet browser will not run?"

How about my Verizon Motorola Q.

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iamtux
Nov 29, 2006 - 9:35 AM

Been using it for a while now, MUCH faster than the browser that came with my Cingular RAZR V3i. I'll use it with my next phone too.

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mharvey
Nov 28, 2006 - 10:04 PM

I am using this on my Sprint PCS Katana phone and it is great. It beats the NetFront browser that came with the phone hands down.

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jbaltz69
Nov 28, 2006 - 6:45 PM

It rocks on my Cingular 8125. About 100 times faster then the version of Internet Explorer that came with the phone. I highly recommend this program.

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yokozuna
Nov 28, 2006 - 5:33 PM

The new release is great! It fully utilises SSL, so I can safely connect my bank with my mobile phone.

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