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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 browsers [...]

 
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 Dial, [...]

 
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 like [...]

 
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 unlikely!). [...]

 
Opera today launched a beta version of its most used mobile browser. The fifth iteration of Opera Mini brings in a lot of new features that tries to make your mobile internet browsing at par with desktop browsing, if not similar. The Mini browser is fast because of its compression technology but the new Mini [...]

 
You can now download the final build of Opera 10 Desktop browser. If you’ve used the beta versions of Opera 10, there’s not really much to tell but if you’re a first time user or jumping from v9.xx, the new version brings a lot to the table. A new UI, visual tabs, Opera Turbo, customizable [...]

 
Opera had been hyping about reinventing the web and it seems they have partially succeeded, with the introduction of its new Unite service. Unite is nothing but a gateway to multitude of services that sits nicely in the browser. With Unite enabled, a user can instantaneously share pictures, files, run a web server, stream media, [...]

 
Opera 9.7 Mobile beta is now available for Windows Mobile users. The new version brings in some nice improvements, most notably the Turbo (read how it works), Opera’s server-side solution to save bandwidth and also enable faster browsing. Other features include Presto 2.2 rendering engine and widgets support.
You can watch the video to see [...]

 
Opera 10 has just moved to beta from alpha bringing in a lot of improvements. The UI has been given a makeover, resizeable visual tabs that shows full snapshots of the opened tabs, a up to 5×5 Speed Dial with changeable background image and Turbo.
The new Opera 10 is 40 percent faster than v9.6, [...]

 
I doubt if anyone knew this but on this day in 1994, Jon von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy wrote the first line of code of a browser we better know as Opera. Fast forward it to now, the Norwegian product has come a long way, effectively found in many devices we use on a day-to-day [...]

 
I like Opera for many reasons. And with the introduction of Face Gestures, they have given me one more reason to like them. The Face Gesture enabled browser uses Face Observation Opera Language (FOOL!) technology that will perform certain operation tasks with the expression of user’s faces (refer the chart above). Here’s a video explaining [...]

 
Opera will announce Opera Mobile 9.7 supporting Turbo compression technology at the CTIA expo next week. Turbo is Opera’s answer to slow internet speeds and also saves bandwidth by compressing the data up to 80%. In addition to Turbo, the new Opera Mobile 9.7 is equipped with Presto 2.2 rendering engine, 100% Acid 3 test, [...]

 
Opera has released a testing copy of its server side optimized Turbo enabled Opera browser. The browser, as we all know, works pretty much like Opera Mini which sends the requested website to Opera servers for optimization and brings back the compressed version of the website. I am currently trying it out and the Turbo [...]

 
Taking its expertise of server-side optimization (which Opera Mini currently uses), the Norwegian browser company has announced of a new server-side solution dubbed as Opera Turbo. Turbo enabled browsers work the same way as Opera Mini but a major difference is that it offers full support for web technologies like Javascript, Ajax and Flash.
The [...]

 
The Norwegian company has released the Alpha version of Opera 10 browser for PC carrying a new rendering engine, Presto 2.2. Presto 2.2 will be the base for all Opera 10 browsers and is 30 percent faster compared to Presto 2.1 that is used in Opera 9.5+ versions.
The new version concentrates more on web standards, [...]