Hello? Opera Mini 4 Is Here, I'm No Longer beta Guys!

You heard that right! The best free JAVA based browser is again updated with new features and improvements galore! Here they are:

"Opera Mini 4 enables you to take your full Web experience and digital lifestyle with you — everywhere you go. Whether you want to access your mail, RSS feeds or bank information, Opera Mini is fast, safe and secure. Opera Mini 4 delivers several new features for quicker scrolling, navigation and page rendering."


Full web in your palm

When you go to a web page, Opera Mini will show you the overview of the page, then suggest where to begin reading. Opera Mini zooms quickly in on the web page and focuses on the content you want to read.

Sync your online lifestyle

Now you can use Opera Link with Opera Mini 4 to synchronize the Web links on your mobile phone with the Web links on your computer. Simply log in to a My Opera account through your phone to sync your bookmarks, or access them from any other browser by going to a Link Web page.


Define search patterns

Just like in Opera for your computer, now you can create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet using Opera Mini. Simply click on the search field that you want to grab on a Web page and then choose "Create search" within your menu.

Opera Mini 4 - In Detail

Sync Your Digital Lifestyle

Now you can use Opera Link with Opera Mini 4 to synchronize your mobile phone Web links with the Web links on your computer. Simply log in to a My Opera account through your phone, to sync your bookmarks, or access them from any other browser by going to a Link Web page.

View Pages in Landscape mode

Want to view the Web on a wider screen? Just hit * # and flip your phone to the side to enjoy browsing in Landscape mode. Change your default view to landscape by turning "Landscape mode" on inside your Settings menu.*

Optimized for Blackberry Users

Opera Mini 4 offers "native BlackBerry menus" designed to invoke the same user-interface Blackberry users are used to on Blackberry devices. Now BlackBerry users can use Opera Mini in a more integrated way that looks and feels like a BlackBerry.

Give Your Phone A Mouse

Opera Mini now gives you a virtual mouse, so you can easily scroll in any direction. Move the mouse cursor towards what you want, and then it quickly snaps your view to the link or content.

Enhanced Small Screen Rendering

Opera's unique Small Screen Rendering feature, "Mobile View," lets you better enjoy web pages on the small screen. Fit any web page to width and Opera Mini 4 will adjust the page structure on the fly. Browse up and down without also having to worry about horizontal scrolling. Instead, scroll down a single column, perfectly resized for your phone.

Top features

Super Fast = Cheaper Browsing

Opera Mini 4 loads your requested web pages at over twice the speed of the other mobile browsers on the market. Because Opera Mini 4 compresses the data before sending it to your phone, your content is delivered faster and costs less to receive.

Auto-sized for Your Phone's Screen

Opera Mini 4 dynamically changes the size of text and images, making it more convenient to read — so less scrolling is required to read content.

Power Scrolling Shortcuts

Scroll at warp speed using your phone keypad. Find your way around on the web pages quicker by using your phone’s number keys. Press 2 to go up, 4 to go left, 6 to go right and 8 to go down. Hitting 5 zooms you in and out.

Create Custom Search Shortcuts

Just like in Opera for your computer, you can create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet using Opera Mini 4. Simply click on the search field that you want to grab on a Web page and then choose "Create search" within your menu alternatives. Then you can enjoy making frequent searches without having to type in the site link again.

Suggested Start Points

When you go to a web page, Opera Mini 4 first shows you an overview of the page, and suggests where to begin your reading. Just click once and Opera Mini 4 will zoom quickly in on the content.

Quick Browsing Keystrokes

Take control over your viewing options with a few quick keystrokes. Just hit 1 to open the Context Menu, where you can turn on Small Screen Rendering (Mobile View) or reload the page.

Before you click on a link, focus the cursor on a link to check where the link will take you. You can then choose whether you want to open the linked page with images turned off. If you choose to browse with the images turned off, you can still choose to load these images in the page you are browsing by selecting "Load images." You can even load the image in its uncompressed, high-quality, original size by choosing "Open image."

Tools and support for web designers

We support web designers who want to make their websites look even better to those browsing with Opera Mini. In Opera Mini 4, we have included all of the cool CSS support that web designers need to make their web pages look pixel perfect on in the mobile web world.

*(Sorry, this feature is yet not supported on BlackBerry and some other devices.)

You can download Opera Mini 4 here

Opera Mini 4 beta 3 Available!

Change log from beta 2:

• Added Link support
• Added Speed Dials
• Added RSS feed support
• Added shortcut *+0 for feeds
• Added shortcuts for speed dials (*+[speed dial number])
• Added function to ask the transcoders for the title and favicon of a new bookmark or speed dial
• Stylus devices can now scroll shortcut help overlays
• Changed "Fit to width" to "Mobile view"
• Changed "Autozoom" to "Show overview"
• Low, medium and high image quality setting
• Images fit better to the screen (no panning)
• Improved BiDi support
• Page position and scaling is now preserved after reload of page
• Stylus devices without pointer motion events should be able to scroll anyway, just not in realtime
• Faked transcoding progress when using feeds
• Show numbers in ordered lists
• Improved stylesheet handling
• Focus highlight now looks inactive when loading
• New and improved server side cookie handling

You may download it here

Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 Available Now!!!

The best FREE mobile browser has been updated guys! Guess what? The new version now supports landscape mode for browsing! How's that for a totally free browser! So if your phone's browser doesn't support landscape viewing, just download the latest opera mini and browse the web like most Nseries phones do, like N95! (almost)

Aside from cutting your data costs down vs other built-in browsers, here's the complete list of improvements from the first release.

• Added encryption
• Added multi search, with shortcut #+9
• Added create search from form field
• Added landscape mode, shortcut #+*
• Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
• Added content folding
• Simplified setup process
• Improved image quality
• Improved fit to width mode rendering
• Simplified settings page
• Added native BlackBerry menu
• Allow BlackBerry to accept the EULA via the menu.
• Fixed decoding of images that were skipped when partially above the window
• Added clock adjustment setting
• Changing the font size via settings now clears the document cache
• Now saves full screen mode between sessions
• Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
• Delayed randomess gathering for secure connections until first real page request

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A New Dimension from Opera Mini

One of the world's most anticipated free browser - Opera Mini 4 beta (code named Dimension) is already available for download. Simply type in http://mini.opera.com/beta on your phone's browser to download and install Opera Mini 4 beta directly on your mobile device and see its slick transition effects, highlights plus mini map like feature ala S60's latest open source browser!

New key features are:

Get all RSS news on your phone

Subscribe to your favorite RSS news feeds and every time you connect with Opera Mini all updates are just one click away. Sort the articles by feed source or by date.

Point, snap, publish

Share a picture from anywhere, anytime with your phone using Opera Mini's photo sharing feature. Upload your photo to a blog or forum, or as an e-mail attachment. Photo sharing just got easier.

Get stuff

With Opera Mini you can download files directly to your mobile phone from the Web . Get all the sound bytes, images, documents and applications straight from the site.

Safe and sound

Do even more online with Opera Mini. Secure connections will now let you safely use secured sites, such as your e-mail, bank site, online stores, with no exposure of your personal details.

And now even faster

All subsequent requests to a server within a session are now quicker. Opera Mini keeps an open connection between server and client reducing overhead TCP set -up times.

Mini Technology

Opera Mini uses a remote server to pre-process Web pages before sending them to your phone. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transferred, enabling handling on simpler phones and creating fast browsing at low costs.

Opera Mini™ simply offers user-friendly access to all Web pages to nearly all mobile phones. It has all the features expected of a browser, and more, such as content download, bookmarks, skins, multi-search and smooth scrolling. In addition, Opera Mini recognizes your phone's capabilities and optimizes Web pages accordingly for fast and easy browsing.

[via: Opera Software ASA]