RSSOpera Mini 4.1 full release now available
By Tim Conneally | Published May 14, 2008, 12:53 PM
The next version of the up-and-coming graphical browser -- a popular alternative to what phone manufacturers typically supply -- has emerged from beta and is available free.
The latest iteration of Opera Mini, which has already been ported over to Android, promises an all-around faster experience on the mobile Web. In addition to intelligent text-completion for entering URLs to speed the browsing process, Opera Mini's servers have been upgraded to expedite page loads. In-text searching ("Ctrl-F") was also added to streamline content location.
Handsets equipped with JSR-75, a standard for accessing PIM data and file systems on J2ME phones, receive several upgraded features in this release. These features include site caching so that pages may be viewed in their entirety without a connection, and uploading and downloading without having to be re-routed through the phone's native browser. Depending on whether native browsers have internal firewall-like address restrictions for phones' own safety purposes (such as BlackBerry's, for instance), this may or may not be perceived as a feature.
A banner feature of Opera Mini 4 is Opera Link, the ability to sync both bookmarks and speed dial listings with other devices running Opera Mini 4 or Opera 9.5.
The beta period for this product was a relatively quick one, lasting just over one month.
can't use it on my vodafone phone because of opera mini's external webservers :-/ that sux :(
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|Wow, installed on my SE K550i, works great and fast here in Colombia's operator TIGO
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|Sucks that Verizon blocks this - I would love to give it a try on my Q...
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|how does verizon block it? installed on my phone
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|Right on the operamini.com homepage is the following disclaimer: "The service is not available to Verizon Wireless subscribers (other than BlackBerry users) yet."
When I try to download the file from my Q, I get an error stating "This file cannot be viewed on the device."
I have read that Verizon blocks 3rd party apps from being installed on their phones - but isn't Google Maps a 3rd party app (which installed just fine)?
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|Get a phone that isn't locked by your phone oem. Other phones with windows mobile will work fine.
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|Awesome. Loving the sync feature.
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|Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is a lot better.
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|Might be but it's for a couple of phones and not everything. ;)
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|It's a nice improvement over version 4.0. Fewer sites start out as tiny text.
Landscape mode is sweet.
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|Opera > *
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