For the mobile internet users, the Opera Mini is very familiar since it became the popular web mobile browsers in the world for years. This is the mobile version of its original version of Opera for desktop computer. It was globally released for the first time on January 24, 2006. Along with the increasing of mobile phone’s users and significant improvements, it continues its domination until now.
Not only for mobile phones, but also the Opera Mini Mobile Browser supports for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) phone and various models of Smartphone. It is now available for many platforms such as Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile and the latest versions of Android, iOS and Blackberry OS. Furthermore, this web surfer is free of charge and users can download it easily from their mobile device. Amazingly, the browser is now available in more than 50 languages.
The goods of Opera Mini are the capability of direct upload from cellular phone and the faster browsing compared with the default phone’s web browser. Another impressive feature is the capability of compressing web pages up to 90 % so that the users can minimize the cost of internet access. Moreover, it supports for saving the favorite web pages whether in the phone’s memory or in the external memory.
The other feature of Opera Mini is the capability of scrolling navigation can be performed with the use of the phone’s number keys, arrow keys and even a stylus. Optionally, the view of this browser can also be switched into the landscape mode (with 90 degrees rotation). This capability is perfectly match for the touch screen devices, but it does not yet support for BlackBerry phones. Users can choose to set the image quality into Low, Medium, or High based on their needs or device’s performance. Of course, when the image quality is set to high then the loading pages will take a longer time and vice versa.
The latest stable release is the Opera Mini version 6. This version has been developed for recent touch screen Smartphone and PC tablet since it has the zoom and jump to buttons. With new beautiful skins, the browser has a direct link feature into social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It supports for pinch-to zoom capability especially for the devices that have the multi-touch feature. The enhancements are also performed to the multi-page browsing capability in order to maintain its stability. [IS]
