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  Opera Mini has played a very important role in the success of Opera Software. The Norwegian company has now announced that this nifty little browser – responsible to improve browsing experience on feature phones – has surpassed 100 million monthly users. This means more than 100m users used the Opera Mini browser on their [...]

  Opera might lag behind from the competition in the desktop browser race but it’s a different ball game when it comes to mobile devices. They rule the mobile market and this month’s State of the Mobile Web report is a valid proof of that. They’ve passed a whopping 100 million users who use Opera [...]

  Opera has released an update of its Opera Mini browser (v5.1) for Android devices. The world’s most used mobile browser now sheds its beta tag for Android phones and promises faster web browsing with improved performance. Opera Mini 5.1 now offers optimized page layout on Android phones with large screens. Furthermore, it has the [...]

  Opera has a reason to celebrate as its first ever app made its way to Apple’s App Store. It took more than 20 days for Opera’s Mini browser for iPhone to be approved and can now be downloaded from the App Store for free. Opera claims Mini is six times faster than Safari, which [...]

  iPhone app developers generally come out only after they’ve been approved but here’s Opera whose issuing a release for submitting their Opera Mini application to the App Store. The approval is obviously on the mercy of Apple (which for now looks slim) but it seems Opera is trying to gain some media hype so [...]

  After a series of betas, Opera Software has released the final builds of their popular mobile browsers – Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. These browsers tout compatibility with almost any phone in the market and bring a lot of enhancements to user’s web browsing experience. In addition to faster browsing speeds, the [...]

  Android users can now take advantage of faster browsing and bandwidth savings with the beta version of Opera Mini 5. With the help of Turbo, Opera can show users compressed pages that helps to save up to 90 percent of bandwidth and speed up web browsing. Opera Mini also comes with tabbed browsing, Speed [...]

  Norway-based Opera has released a native version of its most used Opera Mini browser. Native version means the new Opera Mini won’t require Java, which was a prerequisite for the browser to function properly. Opera Mini 5 is compatible with WinMo 5 and 6-based handsets and brings the same advantages of the Java version [...]

  UPDATE: Opera claims Mini for iPhone is up to six times faster than iPhone’s Safari and consumes 10 times less data. Another interesting thing is that Opera hasn’t submitted the browser to the App Store, which means the chances of using Opera on iPhone is totally on the mercy of Apple’s approval (that seems [...]

  I really like the small twist tech blogs and websites recently gave to a quote from an interview of Opera’s CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. This is the quote: “Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company release it because [...]