Opera Mini hit the streets this morning

[johnneapolis]

I had the radio tuned to Wall Street Report on the way to work this morning, Opera Mini is going to the public officially today. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=121042

[Ramon197B]

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I had the radio tuned to Wall Street Report on the way to work this morning, Opera Mini is going to the public officially today. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=121042

what version is it? is this the same version of the opera mini if you go Mini.opera.com/sprint

[johnneapolis]

It appears to be the same as what we already have. I went to download from www.mini.opera.com, it indicated that I halready had the SAME version, which on my phon is 1.2.2879 build 20060116, so unless you have bugs and want to try to get a newer version, stay put until we hear from JohanO.

[stfuownzu]

That's awesome.

[SingSongBird]

Ha I feel privilged we had it first. Woo hoo

[johnneapolis]

Yes. I would feel privilged to have a few thousand shares of their stock. I think they have a big jump on the market and it just might skyrocket. It sells for 3.20/share on the Oslo Stock Exchange at the moment. I'm looking into it. Just might prove to be a pretty good investment, if in fact it can be bought in the US.

[specv]

man i just got my vision fixed so i can get back online now this wow. this browser certianly rocks

[hookedonitunes]

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Opera Officially Launches Mini Browser Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Tue Jan 24, 10:00 AM ET



Opera Software plans to officially launch Opera Mini on Tuesday, although this hosted mobile phone browsing service and application has already racked up about one million users.


As users browse, the Opera Mini application, which is designed for Java-enabled cell phones, communicates with Opera's servers that strip down the size of Web sites, allowing them to load faster and fit the small screen of the phone.


The Opera application and service are free but mobile operators may charge users for connecting to the Internet.


In late December, Opera quietly extended Opera Mini from being available only to residents in select European countries to being available to anyone. But at the time, Opera said the service wasn't officially available yet and could be taken down at any time. So far, about one million customers have begun using the service, says Tor Odland, a spokesperson for Opera.


Interested users can download the Opera Mini application three ways, including directly from Opera's Web site to their phones. In 30 countries, mobile users can instead send a short message to a specified number and have the application sent to them via text message. Finally, users can download the application to their computers and then transfer it to their phones.

Supporting the Service

To support the service, Opera has implemented more than 100 new servers, says Christen Krogh, vice president of engineering for Opera. He was reluctant to be more specific but he says they run Linux and are massively parallel and massively redundant.


Opera is able to efficiently support the worldwide Opera Mini service by applying some of the same technologies it has developed for its browsers that are designed for small devices, Krogh says. In creating browsers for mobile phones and small devices, Opera has had to be mindful of small memory capacity and processing power. "That's something we can harvest now on the server side to prepare for the content transfer to the Opera Mini client," he says. "Since we spent so much time optimizing the Opera browser, we can now serve a lot of customers without too much computing power on the server side."


Opera also sells Opera Mobile, a browser designed for smartphones that has more features than Opera Mini and operates independently of Opera's backend servers. By contrast, Opera Mini is a smaller application and is meant to bring browsing to low-end phones.


Opera is also offering Opera Mini to mobile operators and handset makers who could self-brand the browser.

[aschneid]

Looks like it is actually a different version on the http://mini.opera.com website now. I just went there and it grabbed version 1.2.2960 built today. Not sure if it's my imagination, but it looks better than the version before it. The fonts seem a little smoother.

Adnrew

[Ramon197B]

Looks like it is actually a different version on the http://mini.opera.com website now. I just went there and it grabbed version 1.2.2960 built today. Not sure if it's my imagination, but it looks better than the version before it. The fonts seem a little smoother.

Adnrew


Yes its a different version. I just download it install. Everything works great. NEW VERSION IS OUT EVERYONE!!! :haha:

[fkh]

Hmm, I'm having trouble with the new version. Went to mini.opera.com from the WAP browser. It didn't prompt me to replace the older version 1.2.28xx, and installed as a new app. Means that all the stored data won't transfer over :(

Anyone else have this problem?

[fkh]

Nevermind...deleted the new one and tried again. Worked this time around.

Seems like bookmarks were saved, but had to re-login to sites.